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According to new research by SISSA, ICTP and INFN, black holes could be like a hologram, where all the information is amassed in a two-dimensional surface able to reproduce a three-dimensional image. In this way, these cosmic bodies, as affirmed by quantum theories, could be incredibly complex...
A new study sheds light on how the spliceosome works. It is a complex cellular system, composed of proteins and RNA, responsible for a “cutting and sewing” process with which protein synthesis is carried out. Defects in its functioning are involved in more than 200 diseases...
Much of what we will be as adults depends on the first years of life, on what we simply observe happening around us and not only on what we are taught explicitly. This also applies to the development of the visual system. This is the conclusion of two SISSA neuroscientists...
One of the central concerns of computer science is how the resources needed to perform a given computation depend on that computation...
To simulate in a laboratory what happens in particle accelerators has been an ambitious goal in the study of the fundamental forces of nature pursued by high-energy physicists for many years ...
Since the beginning of COVID-19 pandemic SISSA scientists have been working at different levels to help understanding the virus, finding new therapies and developing strategies to contain its diffusion. Here are some of the ongoing projects.
Science is an endless source of extraordinary stories. In his new book, SISSA Professor Giuseppe Mussardo tell us 26 of them, one for each letter of the alphabet. The leading characters? Great scientists or incredible ideas...
SISSA offers 2 fellowships in the framework of an "Advanced Training Programme" leading to a fast track PhD in connection with the Inter-University Master course in Physics jointly delivered by the Universities of Trieste and Udine...
They are in the shape of a tadpole and interact with each other by harpooning between head and tail, thus presenting interesting and unexpected physical properties. Tadpoles are the large molecules at the centre of the new research just published in the journal ACS Macro Letters...
In the smartphone era a population can be immune to epidemics even if not a single one of its members is immune to the disease — a notion that can be called "digital herd immunity". On Wednesday 13 May 2020 at 4 pm, Shivaji Sondhi of Princeton University...
It works like a very fine “molecular knob” able to modulate the electrical activity of the neurons of our cerebral cortex, crucial to the functioning of our brain. Its name is Foxg1, it is a gene, and its unprecedented role is the focus on the discovery...
Enrolments are now open for the seventh edition of the Master's Degree Course in High Performance Computing (MHPC) co-organized by the Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA) and the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)...
The data science revolution is finally enabling the development of large-scale data-driven models that provide real- or near-real-time forecasts and risk analysis for infectious disease threats. On Wednesday 6 May 2020 at 3 pm Alex Vespignani of Northeastern University...
Thanks to the great effort made in these weeks by all the people involved in a demanding reorganization, whom we wish to thank, we announce the gradual restart of the School's activities at Sissa from May 4th...
COVID-19 outbreak in Italy imposed an overwhelming workload as well as emotional burdens on healthcare professionals fighting the epidemic with the consequent activation of different support services. SISSA is launching a new survey aimed at analysing...
Loss of the sense of smell and taste, symptoms often reported by patients with COVID-19. For this to happen remains a mystery to scientists. If you have or have had a respiratory disease, cold, flu or COVID-19 fill in this questionnaire at the link gcchemosensr.org...
There is an ongoing public debate about mobile apps for contact tracing. Unfortunately, the most important questions are often absent. On Friday 24 April at 2 pm, Luca Ferretti of the Big Data Institute in Oxford...
"If students can no longer visit SISSA, then we have to bring SISSA to them, thanks to the enthusiasm of the researchers, a bit of technology and a lot of inventiveness to make the appointment fun and exciting...
Moments ago, with the new decree by the President of the Council of Ministers on the 10th of April 2020, all provisions regarding quarantine and movement restriction from previous decrees, including the ordinances from the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Transports, are extended until May 3rd.