Horizon 2020 has funded the SoBigData Research Infrastructure project 31 Marzo 2015
SoBigData proposes to create the Social Mining & Big Data Ecosystem: a Research Infrastructure providing an integrated ecosystem for ethic-sensitive scientific discoveries and advanced applications of social data mining on the various dimensions of social life, as recorded by “big data”.
Donatella Della Porta honoured with the title of Doctor Honoris Causa 12 Marzo 2015
Donatella Della Porta, internationally renowned sociologist and professor of Political Science at the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence, will receive on May 7th the title of doctor honoris causa from the University of Bucharest. The recognition was granted for her significant contributio…
BaAMPs, the first manually curated database of Biofilm-active antimicrobial peptides 3 Marzo 2015
Biofilms are aggregates of microorganisms (bacteria and fungi) adhering to various biotic or abiotic surfaces and embedded in a protective self-produced extracellular matrix.
In the medical field, Biofilms are responsible for various relevant pathological conditions such as pneumonia in cystic fibrosis, colonization of indwelling medical de…
Horizon 2020 has funded the AIDA project coordinated by Andrei Mesinger 27 Febbraio 2015
The project “An Illumination of the Dark Ages" (AIDA), investigates the birth of the very first stars and galaxies in our Universe, occurring over 13 billion years ago
Molecules use intracellular water-filled nano-cavities to efficiently move across the cellular environment 20 Febbraio 2015
The study describes a new microscopy technique capable of investigating the movement of molecules, such as proteins, nucleic acids, and even ions, within the cell at unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution. The new technique has allowed identifying hitherto elusive intracellular water-filled nano-cavities used by molecules to efficien…
Graphene brings quantum effects to electronic circuits 27 Gennaio 2015
Two-dimensional materials bring quantum-mechanical effects into the macroscopic world, creating the potential for electronic devices which dissipate very little energy
2016 ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops 10 Dicembre 2014
The Joint Sessions of Workshops will be held in the city of Pisa in 2016. It will be hosted across three universities – Scuola Normale Superiore, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna and the University of Pisa. The Workshops are highly valued by political and social scientists across the World for its unique format encouraging scholars to gather and…
The European Commission has funded the PAINCAGE project coordinated by Antonino Cattaneo 22 Aprile 2014
The European Commission has funded with over 5.8 milion Euros, the PAINCAGE project coordinated by Antonino Cattaneo, the Director of the Laboratory of Biology (Bio@SNS) at Scuola Normale Superiore. Antonino Cattaneo will coordinate a consortium of 9 international leading groups in the NGF, endocannabinoid and pain scientific arena.
