March 4, 2013 

It's called FRIDa and it's the new image database created at the International School for Advanced Studies of Trieste to carry out research on eating behaviors and choices. It is a tool accessible to all and published in the review Human Frontiers in Neuroscience that will be very useful to the international community of scientists who study food-related issues.

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28 febbraio, ore 17.30 
SISSA - Aula 128  

Giovedì 28 febbraio il Laboratorio Interdisciplinare per le Scienze Naturali e Umanistiche della SISSA ha invitato il pubblico al quarto degli appuntamenti legati al mondo della fotografia vista come un ponte tra arte e scienza. Il titolo di questo nuovo incontro è stato "Fotografia oltre la fotografia" ed è stato tenuto da Andrea Tomicich.

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Frans Pretorius

February 27th, 2:30 p.m.

SISSA - Main Lecture Hall 

The equations of General Relativity have been solved only in very simple cases. Frans Pretorius of Princeton University held at SISSA a public conference to illustrate the innovative method he has employed to obtain solutions of Einstein's General Relativity in realistic problems for modern astrophysics like, for instance, the collision of black holes.

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The DNA tends to become entangled, yet according to a research carried out by Cristian Micheletti of the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) of Trieste and by Enzo Orlandini of Università di Padova, it is possible to obtain knot-free filaments by having them pass through a nano-channel. The research is now one of the "hot papers" in the Soft Matter review and is now accessible free of charge for a four week period.

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