Flee or freeze? In nature, survival hinges on making the right split-second choice when danger strikes, and the brain’s defensive circuits are built for exactly that task. Yet what counts as the ...

SISSA mourns the passing of Edoardo Boncinelli, eminent geneticist, passionate science communicator and former Director of the School from 2001 to 2004. Boncinelli passed away yesterday in Milan at ...

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, ...

The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has published a call for expressions of interest to serve as Expert with duties as Scientific Attaché for Space Activities at the ...

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 ...

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 ...

How many black holes are out there in the Universe? This is one of the most relevant and pressing questions in modern astrophysics and cosmology. The intriguing issue has recently been addressed by ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...