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SISSA Colloquia are back on Wednesday 25 September with a talk by Roberta Sinatra of ITU Copenhagen...

Moving through cosmic forests and spider webs in deep space in search of answers on the origin of the Cosmos ...

The fifth edition of School of Neuroethics, entitled “Emotions, language  self-control. Neurosciences, cognitive sciences, ethics and clinic of dependencies ” will be held in Trieste from 16 to 18 of September. The focus of the school will be...

How do astronauts perceive smells during a mission? What are the novelties in the treatment of anosmia (loss of smell)? How different is our way of “smelling” things from that of a midge? Smell and taste will be the focus of the annual European Chemoreception Research Organization (ECRO) meeting ...

16 September is the deadline to enroll in the Master's Course in Science Communication F.Prattico of SISSA, which for more than 25 years has trained the science communication professionals, with great success in facilitating student entry into employment...

Theoretical physicists from SISSA and the University of California at Davis lay brand new foundations to such a fundamental process as heat transport in materials, which finally allow crystals, polycrystalline solids...

The 2019 Dirac Medal winners were announced yesterday. This year Prize goes to Viatcheslav Mukhanov (Ludwig-Maximilians- Universität, Munich), Alexei Starobinsky (Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics) and Rashid Sunyaev (Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching) ...

Researchers have, for the first time, identified the sufficient and necessary conditions that the low-energy limit of quantum gravity theories must satisfy to preserve the main features of the Unruh effect.
 

The MIT-FVG Project promoting scientific collaborations between MIT and SISSA, University of Udine and University of Trieste researchers is open for the 2019-2020 MISTI's Global Seed Funds call for proposals...

Carbon nanotubes able to take on the desired shapes thanks to a special chemical treatment, called crosslinking and, at the same time, able to function as substrata for the growth of nerve cells, finely tuning their growth and activity...

A new platform for molecular simulation and a community of scientists ready to work together to promote transparency, reproducibility and quality is now a reality.  PLUMED is a 10-year-old plugin that was created by a small group of researchers...

Developing commercially available solutions for head and eye tracking in small laboratory animals. This is the goal of the Proof of Concept grant SMARTLABCAM just awarded by the European Research Council (ERC) to Davide Zoccolan...

The 2019 'Ennio De Giorgi' Prize of the Italian Mathematical Union has been awarded to Nicola Gigli, Professor of mathematics at SISSA...

Registrations to the fifth edition of School of Neuroethics, entitled “Emotions, language, self-control. Neurosciences, cognitive sciences, ethics and clinic of dependencies,” are now open. The School, scheduled in Trieste from 16 to 18 September, will examine the ability...

Even if we study them at school, oxidation numbers have so far eluded any rigorous quantum mechanical definition. A new SISSA study, published in Nature Physics, reverses this state of affairs by providing such a definition, based on the theory of topological quantum numbers...

Are you passionate about science communication? Come and discover the Master’s Course in Science Communication "F. Prattico" at SISSA on Monday 24 June...

The company issues the challenge and the young of SISSA respond using their talent to find solutions. This is the approach of PhD4PMI, a pilot initiative conceived and organised by SISSA in association with Confindustria of Venezia Giulia...

Summer is coming and SISSA open-air theatre is ready to host the third edition of the SISSA Summer Festival ...

On Thursday 13 June, SISSA will host the 23rd edition of the Young Neuroscientist Meeting (YNM2019), a cross-border event that gives to young researchers involved in neuroscience the opportunity to present...

SISSA is part of the Italian consortium which was assigned one of the eight European supercomputers for the creation of a network with very high computing capacity, reaching a billion of billions of operations per second...