From climate change to pandemics, from artificial intelligence to botany, from neuroscience to psychology: science and literature are perfectly blended in the high number of proposals to be selected for the festival that will take place from 26 to 30 May in Trieste ...
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On Wednesday 17 March at 16:00 , SISSA-ICTP Colloquia are back with a talk by Anton Alexeev, professor of Mathematics at the University of Geneva and winner of the Medal of the Erwin Schrödinger Institute for Mathematics and Physics for the year 2020.
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Effective, specific, with a reversible and non-harmful action: the identikit of the perfect biomaterial seems to correspond to graphene flakes, the subject of a new study carried out by SISSA and other international institutions ...
Information is encoded in data. This is true for most aspects of modern everyday life, but it is also true in most branches of contemporary physics. An interdisciplinary team of scientists from ICTP and SISSA showed that...
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given this prolonged challenging time, we believe it is more and more important to look ahead and continue the process started a few months ago thanks to your contribution...
"The CRUI has been committed to promoting open access since 2004 and since 2019 has started to sign agreements with international publishers to turn 'read only' contracts into 'read and publish' ones," said Stefano Ruffo, Rector at SISSA and CRUI's Commission for Libraries Coordinator.
The SISSA newsletter starts its adventure today with the publication of its very first issue! We have gathered eight pieces of news for you about our community...
The Master in High Performance Computing (MHPC) organizes the 3rd edition of the event "HPC: challenge the present to innovate the future". The event will be held Friday, February 26 2021, from 15:00 to 17:00.
Carbohydrates of the prion glycoproteins responsible for a group of neurodegenerative diseases were sequenced for the first time thanks to a highly sensitive technique ...
This year's traditional Boltzmann lecture will be held on February 22, at 14:30, with special lecturer Prof. Leticia Cugliandolo from Sorbonne Université and Institut Universitaire de France, Paris...
On 25 February the annual appointment with secondary schools goes online with hundreds of girls and boys. A video by Giulio Regeni’s parents will open the event...
The percept of time relates to the sense of touch. A new SISSA study “A sensory integration account for time perception” published in PLOS Computational Biology uncovers this connection ...
"Breath deeply". "Count to 10 before answering". At some point in our life all of us have probably tried to put these advices into practice to try to control our anxiety and impulsiveness. However, regulation of emotions and self-control...
For the ninth time, Trieste will host Famelab’s local selection. The event will take place on 26 April at Science Centre Immaginario Scientifico (shortlisting at 10 am, final event at 5.30 pm)...
There is no area in the brain that evolved specifically to subserve reading. However, behind this incredibly sophisticated task, there is a more general and evolutionarily remote mechanism. There is no area in the brain that evolved specifically to subserve reading. However, behind this...
The 6th Edition of From Neuron to Brain has been released. Published for the first time by Oxford University Press, the book is a readable, up-to-date companion to undergraduate, graduate, and medical school courses in neuroscience ...
Cancer is often accompanied by horrific pain. Patients can perceive it because of the specific sensory neurons which, among other fibres, infiltrate the tumour area. But what if exploiting this tumour innervation could help treating cancer? This is the main question that Paul Heppenstall...
The brain strategy for storing memories may lead to imperfect memories, but in turn, allows it to store more memories, and with less hassle than AI. This is the main evidence from a new study by SISSA scientists...
SISSA was one of the driving forces behind ESOF2020 Trieste - Trieste European City of Science 2020. The school was featured in multiple different outlets and events: here is a compendium of some of the content realized in cooperation with several outlets and associations.
Two billion years after the Big Bang, the Universe was still very young. However, thousands of huge galaxies, rich in stars and dust, were already formed. An international study, led by SISSA, now explains how this was possible...