They are called plectonemes. They are the analog of the twisted tangles of telephone cords, and can form in DNA that is pulled through a nanoscale channel. This is the finding of a study led by Ulrich ...

Courses will be held in rooms 135 (first floor). The Coordinator will inform you of any room change when necessary. The timetable can be found here. Please check it regularly ...

"It won’t be long before we know whether we are right or wrong,” remarked Professor Erio Tosatti when, in 2014, PNAS published a study by SISSA/ICTP carried out with Michele Fabrizio, Sandro Scandolo, ...

The call for applications for the 2026 Fellowships of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei is now open, divided into the following categories:Postdoctoral Fellowships"Lina Rizzo" for research in ...

Applications are now open for the 2025–2026 edition of the Master in Data Management and Curation (MDMC), the postgraduate specialization program promoted by Area Science Park and SISSA. The program ...

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 ...

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, ...

Procedura aperta per l'affidamento dell’appalto integrato della progettazione esecutiva e dell'esecuzione dei lavori di realizzazione del nuovo edificio presso la Scuola Internazionale Superiore di ...

Riunione del 23.06.2025OdG1. Approvazione verbale seduta precedente2. Comunicazioni del Coordinatore3. Relazione delle attività del Presidio della Qualità 20244. Discussione della relazione della ...

Theoretical Particle Physics at SISSABasic PhD Courses All courses are held on Monday - Thursday in room 137 unless otherwise stated.

€2.4 million: that’s the amount awarded to Professor Pasquale Calabrese of SISSA through a European Research Council (ERC) grant to investigate some of the deepest mysteries of matter and quantum ...