Ettore Majorana played an influential role in the development of atomic physics in the 1930s. First a student, then coworker with noted Italian physicist Enrico Fermi, in 1937 Majorana elaborated a symmetrical theory of weak interaction, where the...

LEEDS ETTORE SPALLETTI HENRY MOORE INSTITUTE If the past is a burden, Italian artists bear a heavier one than most. And it's not just all that extraordinary art-the Piero della Francescas and Fra Angelicos that seem to lurk around every corner....

Designer who blurred distinctions between culture and commerce Olivetti's "Valentine" typewriter went on sale on 14 February 1969. It was the iPod of its day, a brilliantly packaged and seductively desirable machine designed to change conventional assumptions about what a typewriter might be....