SISSA Student Day: The adventure of the 500!
16 February 2021
On 25 February the annual appointment with secondary schools goes online with hundreds of girls and boys. A video by Giulio Regeni’s parents will open the event...
News & Events
Time perception and sense of touch: a new connection
09 February 2021
The percept of time relates to the sense of touch. A new SISSA study “A sensory integration account for time perception” published in PLOS Computational Biology uncovers this connection ...
“Regolare le emozioni”: a book by Stefano Canali
08 February 2021
"Breath deeply". "Count to 10 before answering". At some point in our life all of us have probably tried to put these advices into practice to try to control our anxiety and impulsiveness. However, regulation of emotions and self-control...
FameLab 2021: The science talent show is back!
02 February 2021
For the ninth time, Trieste will host Famelab’s local selection. The event will take place on 26 April at Science Centre Immaginario Scientifico (shortlisting at 10 am, final event at 5.30 pm)...
Neuronal recycling: this is how our brain allows us to read
21 January 2021
There is no area in the brain that evolved specifically to subserve reading. However, behind this incredibly sophisticated task, there is a more general and evolutionarily remote mechanism. There is no area in the brain that evolved specifically to subserve reading. However, behind this...
From Neuron to Brain, a book for anyone who is curious about the nervous system
20 January 2021
The 6th Edition of From Neuron to Brain has been released. Published for the first time by Oxford University Press, the book is a readable, up-to-date companion to undergraduate, graduate, and medical school courses in neuroscience ...
‘Neurotherapy’ for cancer: a new AIRC project starts at SISSA
18 January 2021
Cancer is often accompanied by horrific pain. Patients can perceive it because of the specific sensory neurons which, among other fibres, infiltrate the tumour area. But what if exploiting this tumour innervation could help treating cancer? This is the main question that Paul Heppenstall...
Artificial Intelligence beats us in chess, but not in memory
15 January 2021
The brain strategy for storing memories may lead to imperfect memories, but in turn, allows it to store more memories, and with less hassle than AI. This is the main evidence from a new study by SISSA scientists...
SISSA @ ESOF2020
12 January 2021
SISSA was one of the driving forces behind ESOF2020 Trieste - Trieste European City of Science 2020. The school was featured in multiple different outlets and events: here is a compendium of some of the content realized in cooperation with several outlets and associations.
Unveiling the double origin of cosmic dust in the distant Universe
11 January 2021
Two billion years after the Big Bang, the Universe was still very young. However, thousands of huge galaxies, rich in stars and dust, were already formed. An international study, led by SISSA, now explains how this was possible...
Order and disorder in crystalline ice explained
29 December 2020
A fascinating substance with unique properties, ice has intrigued humans since time immemorial. Unlike most other materials, ice at very low temperature is not as ordered as it could be. A collaboration between SISSA, ICTP and the Institute of Physics Rosario...
SISSA welcomes the new General Secretary
23 December 2020
Graduated in law, he obtained a master's degree in "University and Research Management" at the SUM (School of Management for Universities and Research Institutions) of the Politecnico di Milano and a specialization in Public Administration Studies at the Spisa of the University of Bologna ...
Ciao Pietro
22 December 2020
On Friday 18 December Pietro Greco left us suddenly. His collaboration with SISSA was long and important. It started almost thirty years ago as Pietro was one of the founders of the Master's Course in Science Communication...
L'appello della CRUI per la scarcerazione di Patrick Zaki
21 December 2020
SISSA supports the plea sent by the Conference of Rectors of Italian Universities (CRUI) to the Egyptian authorities for the release of Patrick George Zaki and his return "at home with his family, where he could also recover from physical suffering after many months of detention".
Goodbye and thank you to SISSA Secretary General Gabriele Rizzetto
18 December 2020
After 8 years the Secretary General Gabriele Rizzetto leaves his position at SISSA. In these years, we have all worked together to make our community stronger and more cohesive and to pursue those results that make our School a point of refernce...
The secrets of reading: A new book by the neuroscientist Davide Crepaldi
16 December 2020
In his work, Professor Crepaldi investigates different aspects of reading. For example, how can we be so good at reading even though we have no biological predisposition to do so: “We do not realise it but we are incredibly fast and accurate readers...
Loss of taste and smell, even without a “stuffy nose”, are a distinctive feature of COVID-19
11 December 2020
A global survey conducted in more than forty countries around the world provides the most important evidence of the connection between COVID-19 and the loss of smell, taste and so-called chemesthesis...
SISSA Christmas Lecture 2020, an excursus into art, maths and symbols
11 December 2020
SISSA 2020 Christmas Lecture will take place on 16 December at 10.30. Chiara Valerio will hold a speech entitled “La testa e la croce, il linguaggio simbolico e la cinematica” (the head and the cross, symbolic language and kinematics) ...
Not all black holes are the same
07 December 2020
Despite Conventional wisdom suggests that black holes are fully characterized by just two quantities, mass and spin, for several years physicists have been investigating whether black holes can have additional structures, in jargon "hair" ...
Junior Math Days are back
30 November 2020
Are you a master student interested in Mathematics? Join SISSA Junior Math Days. The event is aimed at encouraging university students to consider continuing their studies to a PhD level in mathematics and to make them aware of the teaching and research offers of SISSA PhD programs ...
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