Phase transitions in "conventional" materials – such as water turning into ice or a metal becoming magnetised – and topological phase transitions have long been treated as fundamentally distinct, ...

We are pleased to announce that Francesco Benini, Professor of Theoretical Physics at SISSA, has been awarded the prestigious 2025 Frontiers of Science Award in Physics for his article “Black Holes in ...

We are delighted to announce that Massimiliano Berti, full professor of Mathematical Analysis, has been invited to speak at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) 2026, taking place in ...

The national competition “#UniPerDonare. Universities for voluntary blood and plasma donation” opens today, Wednesday 2 July. Promoted by the Italian Ministry of Health, the initiative aims to raise ...

SISSA will host an event as part of the PhD for Innovation programme, in the Big Meeting Room (7th floor).The guest speaker will be Xiaochuan (Giovanni) Ge, a SISSA alumnus and now Vice President of ...

Public selection for no.1 fixed-term researcher in tenure track (RTT) in accordance with art.24 of Law No. 240/2010, at the Mathematics Area, g.s.d. 01/MATH-03 Mathematical analysis, probability and ...

Rats perceive the world with a complexity that modern artificial neural networks struggle to match. This is the finding of a recent study published in the journal Patterns by the Visual Neuroscience ...

A new article published in “Universe” describes an approach that looks back from the deaths of stars to their births, allowing the so-called initial mass function (IMF), i.e. the way in which star ...

Existing and future gravitational-wave detectors will observe signals so precisely that they will be able to detect possible deviations from Einstein’s theory of relativity and the standard model of ...

Black holes continue to captivate scientists: they are purely gravitational objects, remarkably simple, yet capable of hiding mysteries that challenge our understanding of natural laws. Most ...

Chloride ion flows that enter the cells play an important role in the duplication of glioblastoma cells, a highly aggressive brain tumor. This is the finding of research recently published in the ...