New link found between mass of Supermassive black holes and their host galaxies. 9 Dicembre 2019
A team of astronomers - led by Dr Francesco Shankar of the University of Southampton, in close collaboration with Dr Viola Allevato at the Normale di Pisa - has discovered a novel way to “weigh” supermassive black holes at the centres of galaxies by measuring the distances between the galaxies that contain them.
The mechanisms of a genetic form of insensitivity to pain have been discovered. A new chapter for the development of analgesics against chronic pain. 29 Novembre 2019
A research group from Scuola Normale has developed for the first time a transgenic model capable of reproducing the distinctive features of HSAN V, a pathology that determines a congenital inability to perceive pain. The study published in The Journal of Neuroscience.
Sergio Ferrara, winner of the 2019 Special Breakthrough Prize, will be at Scuola Normale for the “Colloqui della Classe di Scienze” 28 Novembre 2019
The well-known physicist from CERN (Geneva), whose research earned him the prestigious recognition conferred by Yuri Milner, Sergey Brin, Jack Ma and Mark Zuckerberg, will talk on Supersymmetry and Supergravity on Wednesday 4 December at 3.00 pm.
Weather ALERT 17 Novembre 2019
Due to weather alert, the SNS-Pisa will be closed on Monday, November 18, 2019. If possible, reception desks will be available at Palazzo della Carovana, and in the university residences. The canteen will be closed.
Camillo De Lellis receives the Bôcher Memorial Prize 2020. 14 Novembre 2019
Reserved for the best works of the last 6 years on topics concerning mathematical analysis, the Bôcher Memorial Prize is the oldest award assigned by the American Mathematical Society. De Lellis, now a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, was a student of the undergraduate course and the postgraduate course at the Scuola Norm…
How to determine protein structure by in vitro molecular evolution. 14 Novembre 2019
In an interdisciplinary study carried out in the Biology Laboratory of the Scuola Normale Superiore (Bio@SNS), Marco Fantini, PhD at SNS, has developed a new method that offers the prospect of determining protein structure without the need to produce and purify proteins to determine their structure by traditional methods.
Full Professor: Greek Language and Literature 29 Ottobre 2019
Public competition for the recruitment of one Full Professor, Academic Recruitment Field/Discipline Greek Language and Literature.
Syria: immediate halt to military operations 17 Ottobre 2019
The Conference of the Italian Universities Rectors on a proposal of the members of the Italian NETWORK OF UNIVERSITIES FOR PEACE, deeply concerned about the escalation of armed violence in Northeast Syria, particularly to the detriment of the Kurd ethnic group, shocked by the gravity of the news reporting that civilian persons, human rights act