An Unprecedented Biochemistry at the Origin of Life, Even on Other Worlds

A simulation program originally designed to describe surface catalysis has been used to model the chemical evolution of polymers in the earliest forms of life. The result is that, under many conditions, proteins are not entirely based on L-amino acids but rather on alternating sequences of L- and D-type amino acids. This suggests that homochirality

Space Plasmas: the ISTP researcher Oreste Pezzi obtains a “Fondo Italiano per la Scienza” Starting grant

Congratulations to our colleague Dr Oreste Pezzi, a researcher at Bari’s branch of ISTP, who has been awarded a Starting Grant of €1,200,610.00 funded by the Ministry of University and Research under the “Fondo Italiano per la Scienza” call (FIS 2, Sector PE9). The FIS projects support highly competitive fundamental research projects at a national

The “Ulrich Kogelschatz Lecture Award” to Giorgio Dilecce

During the 18th HAKONE – International Symposium on High Pressure Low-Temperature Plasma Chemistry, held in Abano Terme (Padova, Italy) on September 1 – 6, 2024, the ISTP researcher Giorgio Dilecce was awarded the prestigious “Ulrich Kogelschatz Lecture Award” ​, with the following motivation: “For his excellent research in the field of diagnostics of non-thermal plasmas

The New Frontiers of Energy

On June 15, 2023, at the CNR Research Area in Padova, the event “The New Frontiers of Energy”, will take place as part of the “open doors” initiatives promoted by the National Research Council on the occasion of its centennial anniversary (1923-2023). The event will showcase research on new forms of energy, energy efficiency, and

CNR delegation visiting ITER

Lo scorso 30 maggio, una rappresentanza del Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche (Cnr), guidata dalla Presidente Maria Chiara Carrozza, ha visitato a Cadarache, nel sud della Francia, il sito dove è in costruzione ITER, l’impianto sperimentale più grande al mondo per la fusione termonucleare controllata.  ITER si propone di dimostrare che è possibile produrre energia da fusione
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