Dec. 18, 2024 — Until now, scientists have been unable to determine how metformin, a Type 2 diabetes medication that lowers blood sugar, works. A study provided direct evidence in mice that it ...

Nov. 20, 2024 — Wings may be the obvious choice when studying the connection between dinosaurs and birds, but a pair of paleontologists prefer drumsticks. That part of the leg, they say, is ...

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Florentine artist Sandro Botticelli created great masterpieces of the Renaissance. Do you know all of Botticelli's most ...

Florence's Vasari Corridor, a historic passage once exclusive to the Medici family, is now open to the public for the first ...

For centuries, Florence's 16th-century Vasari Corridor was only accessible to dukes and lords. Now, the raised passageway that connects the city's Uffizi Galleries to the former residence of the ...

The passage was commissioned by Cosimo I de’ Medici, the Duke of Florence, and designed by the renowned Renaissance painter ...

A secret passageway built 500 years ago to allow the Medici family to pass through the Italian city of Florence unhindered ...

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Nardella was not born a Florentine, but migrated from Naples with his family at age 13. He said he was “adopted” by the city ...

Milan, the northern Italian capital known mainly for fashion, design and finance, is staking its claim as a centre of art – as a plan conceived half a century ago reaches its culmination.

Did the date of December 25 for Christmas really come from pagan tradition, as some modern sources claim? This article ...