(SAR Italy), in agreement with the Conference of Rectors of Italian Universities (CRUI), signed a petition letter addressed to the Belarusian presidency to express the deepest concern about the attacks against the academic community in the country.

A new measurement of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon was revealed yesterday. The collaboration of physicists that performed the measurement includes Alberto Lusiani, employed at Scuola Normale Superiore and associated to the Italian INFN.

The largest space telescope ever constructed, the James Webb (JWST), is to be launched on 31st October from the European spaceport of Kourou, in French Guiana. The experiment proposed by the Cosmology group led by Andrea Ferrara will be studying the formation and evolution of the first galaxies, around 13 billion light years away from Earth. The Scuola Normale is the only Italian research center among the 77 selected in the “Galaxies” sector.

On 7 April, Fermilab near Chicago will host an international seminar to unveil the results of an experiment involving about 200 scientists from all over the world, who are searching for evidence of new fundamental particles or forces that are still unknown.The international team of scientists also includes a researcher from Scuola Normale Superiore.