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, ...

We are pleased to announce that Francesco Benini, Professor of Theoretical Physics at SISSA, has been awarded the prestigious 2025 Frontiers of Science Award in Physics for his article “Black Holes in ...

We are delighted to announce that Massimiliano Berti, full professor of Mathematical Analysis, has been invited to speak at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) 2026, taking place in ...

The national competition “#UniPerDonare. Universities for voluntary blood and plasma donation” opens today, Wednesday 2 July. Promoted by the Italian Ministry of Health, the initiative aims to raise ...

SISSA will host an event as part of the PhD for Innovation programme, in the Big Meeting Room (7th floor).The guest speaker will be Xiaochuan (Giovanni) Ge, a SISSA alumnus and now Vice President of ...

Theoretical Particle Physics at SISSAWork In Progress (WIP) The Work In Progress (WIP) initiative is a student Journal Club seminar organized by PhD students for PhD students. It is meant to be an ...

An extremely remote celestial body in a still young Universe, one sixth the size of the present one. An object so dark that it is almost invisible, even to highly sophisticated instruments. Its nature ...

Water is essential for life, but for astrophysicists, it represents something more. Researchers look at water in galaxies, its distribution and in particular its changes of state from ice to vapour, ...

How many black holes are out there in the Universe? This is one of the most relevant and pressing questions in modern astrophysics and cosmology. The intriguing issue has recently been addressed by ...

At the centre of spiral galaxies – those near to us but also those billions of light-years away – there is a vast spherical region made up of dark matter particles. This region has two defining ...