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

Researchers’ Night 2024: Science Meets the Public in Piazza del Duomo

On Friday, September 27th, from 4:00 PM to 11:00 PM, under the arches of the Arengario in Piazza del Duomo, the highly anticipated Researchers’ Night will take place. This event is part of the project “Co.Science – Meet Research To Connect Science And Society” organized by CNR, Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Museo Nazionale Scienza e

First Institute Workshop Concluded

Group photo of the participants in the first edition of “The Round Tables of ISTP”, Bari, 16-18 September 2024.

ISTP gathers in Bari

From September 16th to 18th, the Institute for Plasma Science and Technology will gather for its first Institute workshop in Bari, at the Interuniversity Department of Physics! The agenda of the 1st ISTP Workshop can be found here.

A new method for measuring fusion power

Recently, a group of researchers from ISTP, in collaboration with their associates from the University of Milan Bicocca, Italian researchers from ENEA research center in Frascati and University of Milan and a group foreign researchers, demonstrated a new and alternative method for measuring fusion power in tokamaks using a deuterium and tritium mixture.The method, demonstrated

Article #9 – The Article of Research – CNR meets the schools

‘The Republic promotes the development of culture and scientific and technical research. (omissis).’ This is what Article 9 of the Constitution says, establishing among the fundamental principles the strategic role played by Research and Science for the development and innovation of communities. On Feb. 29, 2024 from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Expo

JET’s final tritium experiments yield new energy record

The Joint European Torus (JET), one of the world’s largest and most powerful fusion experiment, has demonstrated the ability to reliably generate fusion energy, whilst simultaneously setting a world-record in energy output. The third and final series of deuterium-tritium experiments at the UKAEA’s Joint European Torus successfully achieved high fusion power, consistently produced for 5

JT-60SA: Inauguration ceremony

On Friday December 1st 2023 starting at 6:00 CET, the Inauguration Ceremony of the JT-60SA tokamak will take place at Naka site in Japan, hosted by the National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST) and Fusion for Energy, with representatives and guests from both Japan and Europe. The Director of the CNR Department of