Sapienza University of Rome

As these jets plough through the surrounding interstellar gases, they produce an afterglow that telescopes can follow in X-rays, visible light and even radio waves.

One of the study's authors, Roberto Ricci from the University of Rome, says while his team see hundreds of gamma-ray bursts every year, oddballs like this one are the most informative.

Ricci and colleagues could explain individual features of the burst, but fitting them all together into the same picture proved to be much harder.

The authors say the evidence points to perspective.

My guest today is a lawyer by training, a graduate of Luis University in Rome.

He holds an LLM in European law from King's College London and a PhD in public law and economics from La Sapienza University in Rome.

Before coming to Brussels, he advised the chair of the Italian Parliament's Committee for Legislation on the implementation of EU law.

He joined DG Competition in 2008, starting out in the European Competition Network Unit before moving to the Private Enforcement Unit, where he worked on the Commission's policy initiatives on antitrust damages actions from the 2008 White Paper through to the 2013 proposal for a Directive.

I mean, I've never met anybody who can bring science and the philosophical pieces together.

But he is doing studies at University of Rome and also University of Bari.

And he's working with a lot of PhD students to study these plants.

at this level.

And then you have Jacob Mantino, who was born in Spain, who was a Talmud Chochm and also a physician to the Pope.

The Pope made him professor of medicine at the University of Rome in 1539, and he becomes deeply entwined in in the international efforts surrounding King Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon.

So you had, throughout these 500 years, periods of difficulty, then you had suddenly a turnaround, and you had a turnover of over 80 popes, which meant you never know what was going to happen around the corner.

It's really reflective of most of Gollus and most of Europe, just ups and downs, depending on the kings, depending on who's in charge, depending on the time.

Ma la difficoltà di trovare una casa non riguarda soltanto il centro storico e non dipende soltanto dal turismo.

Secondo una ricerca della Sapienza, a Roma oltre centomila famiglie vivono serie difficoltà legate alla casa e molte di queste famiglie si concentrano nella zona est di Roma e sul litorale, quindi lontano dai quartieri più turistici della città.

Il punto quindi è che non basta trovare una casa, bisogna anche potersela permettere e gli affitti possono essere troppo alti rispetto a quanto guadagnano le famiglie, anche dove ci sono pochi turisti.

L'amministrazione Gualtieri sta cercando di intervenire su questo problema e per esempio ha limitato le trasformazioni degli appartamenti per uso turistico, ha comprato oltre trecento appartamenti da destinare alle case popolari e ha avviato un servizio per aiutare chi cerca un affitto.

The afterglow was also tracked by GRAND, a seven-channel camera on the 2.2-meter telescope at Lasilla, by SMARTS at Cerro Tololo, and by the Master Robotic Telescope in South Africa.

The new paper is led by Liang Li at Ningbo University and Yu Wang at ICRANet and Sapienza University in Rome, with Bing Zhang at the University of Hong Kong among more than 20 co-authors.

It came out in Nature Astronomy on Friday, and it takes those two episodes and treats them as two separate bursts.

Call them G1 and G2.

In 1923, when Ettore was 17, he earned the prestigious equivalent of a regular high school diploma, and at first, it appeared as if though he'd followed in his father's engineering footsteps.

Yet after four years of study and whilst on the verge of gaining an engineering diploma at the University of Rome, he suddenly withdrew from the course.

His peers and professors were stunned, but to Ettore, his decision made all the sense in the world.

Engineering was a respectable, enjoyable subject, but another had captured his imagination.