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Tommaso Calarco at the University of Bologna

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Tommaso Calarco at the University of Bologna

The internationally renowned physicist and scholar in the field of quantum technologies has taken service at the "Augusto Righi" Department of Physics and Astronomy of the Alma Mater.

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Giant polarized shock waves shake the cosmic web of the universe.

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Giant polarized shock waves shake the cosmic web of the universe.

Scientists observed the undebatable traces of the cosmic magnetism that is generated, at the periphery of galaxy clusters and cosmic filaments when massive masses of plasma come towards the cosmic web

A single-cell biosensor

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A single-cell biosensor

The device is miniaturized and highly sensitive and it can monitor the cell adhesion process at the level of single cells. There are numerous possible applications in the biomedical field.

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When stars are no longer born: the challenge of the new ERC Red Cardinal project

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When stars are no longer born: the challenge of the new ERC Red Cardinal project

Led by Sirio Belli, a researcher at the University of Bologna's Department of Physics and Astronomy "Augusto Righi", the frontier research project funded by the European Research Council will use observations from the James Webb Space Telescope to shed light on a still mysterious phase in the history of the Universe

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Some stars age at a different rate

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Some stars age at a different rate

Some White Dwarf stars retain a thin layer of hydrogen that allows them to produce energy for a longer period of time and thus extend the final stage of their life. The discovery was made by a research team led by scientists from the University of Bologna and the National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF)