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 ...
What happens in our brain when we listen to the rhythmic pace of a song or when, at the traffic light, the light is red and we are trembling awaiting the green? How do we perceive such an abstract feature of the world? For the first time in humans...
With great sadness we announce the passing of Boris Dubrovin after a long illness. SISSA and the scientific community at large have lost an extraordinary mathematical physicist, a great colleague, and friend...
Supercomputers, cryptography, precision sensors are on the research horizon for a new international centre of excellence that will be inaugurated on Monday 25 March in Trieste. The Institute aims at becoming an international reference point for training and research...
It is known that there are important similarities between the visual system of primates and the artificial neural networks of the latest generation. Now we know how that these similarities exist also with the visual system of rats ...
How does the brain work? What happens in pathological conditions like aphasia, depression or dementia? These are just some of the questions that researchers will try to answer during the Brain Awareness Week...
Our brain comprises 85 billion nerve cells and just as many so-called glial cells, which work in close contact with the former to guarantee their proper function. All originate from brain stem cells. But what decides when and how many of them become neurons or glial cells?...
The campaign asks everyone to save energy by switching off as many non-essential electrical devices as possible. Fully embracing the philosophy of the initiative, these days SISSA has been carrying out...
The prize is awarded to an early career scientist who has made outstanding research contributions to an area of statistical physics nonlinear physics, complex systems, or complex networks, as evidenced by a top quality and highly cited paper...
Promises of food, sums of money or entertaining pastimes: it does not matter what the temptation is, a new study shows that patients suffering from Parkinson’s disease who are treated with Deep Brain Stimulation...
A team of researchers from SISSA and OGS in Trieste, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa, and UPC in Barcelona show that a specific body deformation called metaboly allows Euglena to crawl remarkably fast in narrow spaces. This feature could be a source of inspiration...
How do we perceive time? Why do plants take on specific shapes? What is machine learning? These are just some of the questions that SISSA researchers will answer on Wednesday 20 February during the Student Day. The Institute will open the doors to hundreds of students...
“HPC: challenge the present to innovate the future” is the event promoted by SISSA and ICTP's Master in High Performance Computing, which will take place at SISSA on Friday 15 February 2019, from 2 pm
On Wednesday 20 February SISSA celebrates Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann’s birthday with a lecture by physicist Paul Fendley entitled “Between Order and Disorder”. The event will take place in room 128-129 at 2.30 pm...
SISSA is proud to support the presence of Italian and foreign scientists of renown scientific and cultural level as well as refugee scientists as visiting professors. Through the programme for collaborations of excellence...
To celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2019 and to join forces to build an inclusive scientific community, ICTP, OWSD and SISSA, in collaboration with Soroptimist Trieste, are organizing an event scheduled on 8 February 2019...
