CIP 2026: Italy’s First National Conference on Plasma Science Held in Frascati

The first Italian Conference on Plasmas (CIP 2026, February 3–6) has just concluded at the ENEA Research Center in Frascati. The event brought together 150 representatives from research institutions and universities to discuss the main application areas of plasma science, ranging from nuclear fusion and astrophysics to low-temperature plasmas and their many industrial applications. The

Successful Acceptance Tests of the First Gyrotron for the DTT ECRH Heating System

The acceptance tests of the first gyrotron for the ECRH heating system of the DTT tokamak have been successfully completed. DTT is an important national project in which CNR is a partner. This achievement represents a key milestone toward the implementation of the ECRH system and the future operation of DTT, with ISTP playing a

ISTP Researcher Wins EUROfusion Grant

The EUROfusion consortium has announced the winners of this year’s prestigious Bernard Bigot Researcher Grants (ERG) and Engineering Grants (EEG), selecting nine ERG and fourteen EEG recipients from leading institutions across Europe. These awards celebrate scientific excellence and innovative thinking, supporting Europe’s next generation of fusion specialists on the path toward delivering fusion energy. Named

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

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

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