Following years of study in the largest research centres in Japan, Europe and North America, on 21 May 2019 the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA/ISAS) announced the selection of the LiteBIRD satellite...
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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...
Different regions are implicated in recognition of different foods because two components of the so-called “semantic memory”, the one that we always use to recognise the world around us, are involved...
From 5 to 9 July 2020 Trieste will be hosting the EuroScience Open Forum, the largest European meeting dedicated to scientific research and innovation. ESOF will bring together over 4,500 scientists, innovators, policymakers, journalists and educators from more than 90 countries ...
Starting from 6 pm at Caffé degli Specchi, the event will be the occasion for a critical reading of the poem, but also for exploring the literary universe of this extraordinary author, on a journey into the knowledge of Leopardi that will range from the area of human passions...
As part of UFO project, following the successful 2018 experience, SISSA hosts two artistic residencies this year...
Down there in the microworld, where the dimensions reach a millionth of a metre, in specific conditions, highly interesting things can occur whose practical applications could expand to the field of nanotechnologies...
Over the past decade, and particularly over the past five years, research at the interface of topology and neuroscience has grown remarkably fast. On Wednesday 29 May, Kathryn Hess Bellwald, mathematician of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne...
The event that brings the latest research to local pubs is back. Physics, biotechnology, ecology, marine biology, astrophysics, information technology, social networks and even history are the topics presented by researchers and students...
Both women and men are working in research organisations and higher education institutions where they take up distinct roles. At the same time, research and higher education institutions also work for people. On 20 May, Marcella Corsi of Sapienza University will show the several...
Selective, safe and with a reversible effect: they are the nanomaterials, protagonists of a new study by SISSA which has shed light on their ability to reach specific sites and affect the action of specific brain cells...
Double appointment at SISSA with Giulio Tononi, well-renown neuroscientist and psychiatrist of the University of Wisconsin, on the origin of consciousness and the use of Integrated information theory (IIT) as an attempt to explain it in a principled manner. On Wednesday 15 at 4 pm...
As fascinating as it is mysterious, dark matter is one of the greatest enigmas of astrophysics and cosmology. It is thought to account for 90% of the matter in the universe, but its existence has been demonstrated only indirectly and recently called into question. New research...
New research conducted in the Cognitive Neuroscience group of SISSA shows that a perceptual decision – recognizing an object and taking the appropriate action – is triggered as soon as the brain’s processing networks...
The Master in High Performance Computing (MHPC) is now accepting applications for its 6th Edition (2019-2020), that will start on 9 September 2019 in Trieste. MHPC is hosted and organized by SISSA and ICTP - The “Abdus Salam” International Center for Theoretical Physics, in collaboration with CNR/IOM (Istituto Officina dei Materiali of the Italian National Research Council) ...
Nanoparticles which thanks to a flash of infrared light are able to release electrical signals or specific active molecules to the nerve cells to which they are attached. This brand new project, coordinated by SISSA professor Laura Ballerini with researcher Denis Scaini...
Gravity is the research focus of Enrico Barausse, physicist and former SISSA PhD student, who has just come back to Trieste with an ERC worth 2 million Euro. The project, entitled “GRavity from Astrophysical to Microscopic Scales - GRAMS” aims ...
The decision-making processes of healthy subjects with sub-clinical psychotic episodes are altered in a way that is similar to what happens in subjects with schizophrenia. This is the key result of a study conducted by the Neuroscience and Society Laboratory...
“The results speak for themselves. That of SISSA in the area of PRIN 2017 funding is a huge success, receiving funding for more than one out of every three projects presented. This percentage of achievement is much higher than the national average". This is how Professor Stefano Ruffo, Director of SISSA...
Not only books. The 2019 edition of the initiative organized by SISSA Master's Course in Science Communication "Franco Prattico" is intended to be a Science and Media Festival ...