A 70-year-old Italian Canadian woman recently returned a first-century AD terracotta roof decoration that she stole from Pompeii. The woman repented her theft of the antefix – a carved vertical slab blocking the covering tiles of an ancient roof – from a colonnaded courtyard behind the theater at the archaeological site in June 1964 during …

  The University of Pisa has devised a new and patented method of extracting extra-virgin olive oil.   Designed by agricultural scientists at the University of Pisa led by Professor Gianpaolo Andrich, the innovative technique uses dry ice (solid carbon dioxide) to achieve a nine percent average higher yield (17.4kg instead of 16kg of product …