Barbara Fantechi, SISSA Professor of Geometry, has just been appointed Correspondent Member of Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and also Correspondent Member of Istituto Veneto di Science, Lettere ed Arti of Venice...
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A new SISSA study investigates the unexplored dynamics behind the production of these special cells, which are essential for neuronal activity and implicated in a number of diseases, with interesting implications for research and therapeutic treatments...
SISSA will actively tale part in the project. In particular, the School will participate in two of the thematic areas of the National Center. The first is in the fields of materials physics, of which it is co-leader together with the CNR. The second is in astrophysics and cosmology...
From migration to the loss of biodiversity, an international meeting at The "Abdus Salam" International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste that will address the challenges of sustainability through the lens of basic science...
The School is starting again part of its activities and a number of procedures have been put in place to guarantee everybody's safety. They are summarised below through some Frequently Asked Questions.
Physiology, geometry, mathematical analysis, mathematical physics, theoretical physics: in the latest VQR report compiled by ANVUR, SISSA ranks at the top for the value of scientific research in more than half of the fields in which it was assessed...
A step forward for the communication of the future in the logistics and transport sector was made yesterday in Trieste. An innovative agreement was signed among the Port of Trieste, SISSA...
From 14 to 16 July 2022, SISSA will host “The Evolution of Knowledge”, an international conference that deals with the history of science using tools and methods from other disciplines to create a new courageous approach to the history and philosophy of science…
The world is currently witnessing the highest numbers of forcibly displaced people on record. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, at the end of 2020, 82.4 million were forcibly displaced worldwide...
The Einstein Telescope Collaboration brings together 79 organisations from 13 different countries and was established at the 12th Einstein Telescope Symposium...
The neural and cognitive complexity of octopuses could originate from a molecular analogy with the human brain, as discovered by a research paper recently published in BMC Biology…
It's finally time to sign up for the SISSA Summer Party! The party will take place at the SISSA amphitheater on Friday the 8th of July from 8pm to 1am approximately…
Enrollments for the 30th edition of the Master in Comunicazione della Scienza “Franco Prattico" (MCS), organized by the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of SISSA, are now open…
SISSA coordinates the ninth "spoke" dedicated to digital twins, with the participation of the University of Trieste, the University of Padua and OGS. The contribution will be provided, in particular, by SISSA’s mathematical area, through the development of models, methods and computational technologies for the creation of...
A quantum simulator at Rice University is giving physicists a clear look at spin-charge separation, the quantum world’s version of the magician’s illusion of sawing a person in half. Published this week in Science, the study also involved SISSA researcher...
SIGRAV is a non-profit scientific that brings together the various activities in gravitational physics, from theory to observation and revelation. SIGRAV members thus include experts of Classical and Quantum Gravity, of Astrophysics and Cosmology, and of Experimental Gravity...
Based on a subject by astrophysicist Roberto Trotta, LIBRA is a video-theatrical show told through stage actors, holograms and an impressive visual mapping on three facades of the Miramare castle...
A metallic junction between two solids, when forced to vibrate at ambient temperature, inexplicably becomes liquid. This is what occurs in the nano-world according to some experimental observations. However, sometimes appearances are deceptive...
The event, which is part of the Approdi Festival, is organized by the research group of Prof. Gianluigi Rozza and SISSA mathLab. The seminar, held in Italian, will focus on technological progress, which can be sustainable only if...
From hypersensitivity to clothing to an extreme focus on visual details, about 90% of autistic individuals report atypical sensory experience. A new project awarded by SFARI...