Call for admission to the Postgraduate Course for the 2020-2021:76 places 14 Gennaio 2020
The Postgraduate Course is equivalent to the PhD course of Italian universities and enables to obtain the international qualification of Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D).
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Carbon Cocoons Surround Growing Galaxies. ALMA Spots Earliest Environment Pollution in the Univers. 16 Dicembre 2019
Researchers (with Andrea Ferrara and his Cosmoloy Group at Scuola Normale Superiore) have discovered gigantic clouds of gaseous carbon spanning more than a radius of 30,000 light-years around young galaxies using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array.
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Light beams to capture signals in cells: the new challenge to diabetes arises in Pisa. 10 Dicembre 2019
The research project "CAPTUR3D: Capturing the Physics of Life on 3D-Trafficking subcellular Nanosystems", conceived and led by Francesco Cardarelli (Associate Professor in Applied Physics at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa), was awarded 2 million euros by the European Union in the last round of ERC Consolidator Grants.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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…