On the fiftieth anniversary of the death of this distinguished scientist, the National Academy of Sciences called of the XL, the Italian Geographical Society, and the International  Association of Mediterranean and Eastern Studies (ISMEO), organize the meeting ‘Giotto Dainelli: geographer, geologist, explorer’ to be held in Rome on December 10 and 11, 2018. Giotto Dainelli, was an Academy member from 1936 to 1968, the year of his death. (more…)

The presentation of the volume “Descriptions of Castelporziano at the time of the Grand Tour” will take place on December 18 at the Library of the National Academy of Sciences called of the XL. (more…)

The Meeting on November 16, 2018 closes the tour of encounters centered on the relationship between ‘Sciences and the Great War’ promoted on the occasion of the centenary of the first World War by the Academy of the XL in collaboration with the National Research Council and the major Italian History of Science Societies. (more…)

‘Nucleic acids, proteins and the chemical language of life’ is the subject chosen for 2018. A look at the so-called informational macromolecules will lead to understanding how their concerted action confers to living beings the characteristics that distinguish them from inanimate matter and how a relatively small number of molecules is able to store and transmit an enormous amount of information. (more…)

The Academy starts the 236th academic year on Thursday May 10 at the seat of the Academy Library. (more…)

On the occasion of Open House 2018, an international event that aims at valuing the cultural and architectural heritage through the engagement of the whole territory, the seats of the Academy will be opened to the public in May on Saturday 12 and Sunday 13. Guided tours can be booked on www.openhouseroma.org (more…)

To  celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Carlotta Parisani Strampelli the Academy and ENEA promoted the International Conference Wheats &Women. (more…)

The Symposium ‘Astrochemical observatory: focus on chiral molecules’ will be held in Rome on March 22-23 in the Academic Library. (more…)

The massive participation of researchers in the First Italian Citizen Science Conference (Rome, November 23-25, 2017) confirmed the great interest raised by the topic and by the prospects of developing the new approach to science it proposes in Italy. (more…)

Silvio Micali, computer scientist at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT and professor of Computer Science at MIT, will hold the conference “Mathematics and Computation” in the Academy Library on November 27, 2017. The event is organized by the Academy in collaboration with the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. (more…)