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Data science and society, Quattrochiocchi will develop research at Ca’ Foscari

Walter Quattrociocchi, internationally renowned researcher for his studies on online disinformation, will be part of the Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics at Ca’ Foscari, where he will fund the Laboratory of Data Science and Complexity.

Anthropocene began with fires 3000 years ago

Ca’ Foscari and Cnr scientists investigated ice and lake core records in Asia, America and Europe, and glaciers in the Alps and Himalaya to understand when anthropocene begun.

For 12 Venetian Businesses creative heritage to strengthen competitive edge

Ca’ Foscari is launching the “V_Heritage” project, funded by the European Social Fund through Venetian regional authority to strengthen the competitive edge of Venice’s creative industries, supporting 12 businesses from the Venetian region in discovering their cultural heritage.

The experiment: miniature Ionian Sea to understand Sea vortex phenomena

An international group of oceanographers including Ca' Foscari researchers, will create a miniature Ionian Sea in a pivoting tank of 13 meters diameter and a meter deep which rotates in 3 minutes imitating the Earth rotation in one day at the LEGI Coriolis in Grenoble.

Disinformation on Facebook: contrasting false theories does not benefit to science

Attempts to systematically contrast pseudo-scientific theories or false new that are published on Facebook would be useless or even counter-productive according to a research carried out by an international team lead by Italian researchers published today by the journal PLOS ONE.

Scientists and firms to eliminate chrome from tanning

Tanning without using chrome is possible. Scientists and firms are proving it with the first project dedicated to sustainability of tanning involving researchers of Ca' Foscari University of Venice.

Climate change, new database of temperatures of the last 2000 years

An international team of 98 researchers from 22 countries has released as an open dataset the result of their three years research on evidence on climate change history from natural archives..

New archaeological sites discovered near Aquileia

Satellite images and air laser scans taken near the ancient city of Aquileia allowed Ca’ Foscari University of Venice’s archaeologists to find at least three settlements that will be further explored with additional investigations and archaeological digs.

Tourism and Sharing Economy: research on Airbnb data

Researchers of the Department of Economics have explored that question and presented their results in a public encounter dedicated to the ‘non-traditional’ hospitality industry gathering Sharing Economy and digital technology.