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This hypothesis, the authors of a new study say, is in excellent agreement with observations made by the Cosmic Origin Spectrograph (COS) on board the Hubble Space Telescope, which takes measurements of the “cosmic web”...

The annual Intra-Area Meeting in Physics will be held in SISSA December 16th. The aim is to bring together the several physics group active at SISSA for a day of confrontation, exchange of ideas and know-how, results and scientific vision...
 

The inauguration ceremony of Leonardo, the supercomputer ranked fourth in the Top500 list of the fastest computers in the world, was held today, 24 November, at the Bologna Technopole, in the presence of the President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella...

Two more European Research Council (ERC) grants for SISSA. The projects of researchers Laura Donnay and Katja Reinhard, worth a total of almost two and a half million euros, will start in the coming weeks and will last five years...

The University of Lorraine has recognised the fundamental contribution of Pasquale Calabrese in the fields of theoretical and statistical physics by awarding him an honoris causa doctorate...

The aim of the new SISSA's start up is to make computing methodologies and technologies available to the market for real-time solutions, enabling faster research and development results…

A well-known problem in micro- and nanotechnology is stiction. Friction between tiny parts and surfaces prevents movement and causes issues in utilizing new technologies…

From science diplomacy to artificial intelligence, from pandemics to environmental sustainability, the challenges of disseminating and sharing scientific knowledge are intertwined with the most serious contemporary concerns...

On Wednesday, 16 November 2022, SISSA has celebrated the start of the new academic year. The Opening Ceremony took place in room 128-129 and was the occasion to welcome the School's new students...

The kick-off will take place on the 27 and 28 October at the INAF headquarters in Rome. Matteo Viel will be the coordinator of the SISSA node...

Andrea De Giovanni is the winner of the Pezcoller Foundation scholarship awarded to the highest-ranked candidate for admission to the SISSA’s Master’s course in Science Communication “Franco Prattico” for the academic year 2022-23...

A new technique developed at SISSA, using artificial intelligence and atomic force microscopy, makes it possible to identify membrane proteins thanks to the way they 'unfold' directly from their membrane...

Giuseppe Mussardo, Professor of Theoretical Physics at SISSA, was elected in the class dedicated to humanities and science, one of the five that compose the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno. Always passionate about the history of science...

SISSA shares the concern of the international academic community and supports the statement of the Italian section of Scholars at Risk (SAR Italy) about the current violations of the human rights of students and staff at Iranian universities...

Tackling the challenges of new materials and complex molecular systems: this is what the new “Materials and Molecular Sciences” Spoke, presented in Rome on October 11th and financed thanks to PNRR funds, will be dealing with...

The traditional Sciama SISSA Colloquium returns later this month, October 19th, at 5 p.m. in room 128-129, with a seminar by Theodore A. Jacobson of the University of Maryland...
 

An experiment capable of taking a step forward in the research activity dedicated to the development of quantum technologies on which the international scientific community has long been committed...

The European Researchers Night returns to Trieste again this year, for the first time in one of the most magnificent places in the city: Porto Vecchio...

After a short introduction on the state-of-the-art of digital quantum computing from a hardware and software perspective, Ivano Tavernelli, from IBM Research, will present applications in many-body and high energy physics...

An interdisciplanary research team from SISSA and the University of Padua analysed the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou problem in an innovative way and discovered a link to turbulence in fluids...