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XIX School of Pure and Applied Biophysics

Submitted by Marco Milano on 28 November, 2014 - 20:27

SIBPA - Italian Society for Pure and Applied Biophysics and IVSLA - Venetian Institute for Sciences, Humanities and Arts organize the XIX International School of Pure and Applied Biophysics on "Theoretical and Computational Approaches to Biophysics", scheduled January 26th-30th, 2015 in Venice, Italy - Campo Santo Stefano.

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Rosetta and the Italian politics for scientific research

di Giovanni Bignami
di Filippo Bonaventura
Pubblicato il 28/11/2014
ASI
INAF
Space
Ricerca scientifica

Despite the not-always adequate coverage provided by the Italian media, the European Rosetta Mission, which carried out in the last days the first landing on a comet in history, kept the whole world holding its breath and has been an extraordinary scientific, technological and organizational success. When initially proposed by ESA – the European Space Agency – the aim of the mission was practically science fiction. But thanks to the cooperation of thousands of scientists from tens of research

In Sweden the most powerful neutron microscope in the World

di Cristina Da Rold
Pubblicato il 24/11/2014
Physics

Three of the main Italian research institutions, together with the Ministry for Education, University and Research, participate in one of Europe's most ambitious projects of recent years: the construction of the most powerful neutron microscope in the World: European Spallation Source (ESS). It will be built in Sweden and will be used for interdisciplinary studies, from life sciences to physics, from nanotechnology to pharmaceuticals. A collaboration between CNR,