A team led by Cnr Nano extended a popular quantum mechanical visualization of chemical bonds to work not only on regular states of matter but also on complex magnetic states. Results are published in Physical Review Letters

The COST Action "Targeting Cell Senescence to Prevent Age-Related Diseases" (SENESCENCE2030), coordinated by Cnr, is open to the participation of experts, researchers, and clinicians with expertise in cellular senescence, molecular mechanisms related to senescence, experimental aging models, and studies on opportunities for early aging diagnosis and treatment. The project involves 21 European countries, represented by research institutes and universities

An article published on Science Advances presents a simple and innovative method to create new materials that combine the extraordinary properties of single metal atoms with the robustness, flexibility, and versatility of graphene. The work is the result of an international collaboration between researchers from Cnr - Istituto Officina dei Materiali, University of Trieste, University of Milano Bicocca, and University of Vienna

A book by Cnr-Isafom, recently edited By Cnr Edizioni, describes how to monitor and predict the growth and development of forest ecosystems by employing a bio-geochemical, bio-physical process-based model

In a paper published in the prestigious journal Communications Earth & Environment of the Nature publishing group, a team of scientists from the University of Florence and the Institute of Geosciences and Earth Resources of the National Research Council of Italy (Cnr-Igg), together with other different universities from Ethiopia, France and United Kingdom has presented for the first time an extremely detailed reconstruction of the volcanic evolution of the rift valley in Ethiopia. Starting from data collected during different field campaigns and from laboratory analysis and age characterization of numerous samples of volcanic rocks, scientists have evidenced that the volcanic activity of the rift valley in the 4 million years has not been continuous in time but has evolved in a pulsatory way, with major pulses of intense explosive activity separated by periods of very minor or absent volcanism

A new study has highlighted the role of chloride flows through channels on the surface of tumor cell lines: by stopping these ion currents, their replication can be halted. The research, led by research teams from SISSA in collaboration with Cnr-Iom, the University of Trieste, University Hospital of Udine, the University of Udine and GlioGuard S.r.l. has been published in Molecular Cancer Research and featured in the Editor’s Highlights

Aptadir Therapeutics, a biotech company developing RNA inhibitor-based therapeutics for treating intractable cancers and genetic conditions, announces its launch: the basis for the company was the landmark discovery which originates from three top international institutions – the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center of the Harvard Medical School, the National Research Council of Italy and the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore

Canada and Italy announce the creation of the Joint Advisory Group (JAG) on Artificial Intelligence, marking a milestone in cooperation between the two countries in the field of science, technology, and innovation (STI). The group will be co-chaired by Mona Nemer, Chief Scientific Advisor of Canada, and Maria Chiara Carrozza, President of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)

The "Descartes Laboratory" seminar, organized by the Institute for the european intellectual lexicon and history of ideas (Cnr-Iliesi) and La Sapienza Department of Philosophy, is planned to engage with the most recent works on Descartes as well as on 17th-century philosophy and natural philosophy connected with Cartesianism. The Laboratory involves master and graduate students, as well as young post-doc, giving them a space for discussion