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Why is so important the discovery of the gravitational waves by LIGO/VIRGO Scientific Collaborations? What can this milestone discovery teach us about our universe? A public conference on March 11^th with Paola Puppo, from INFN and VIRGO Collaboration, organized inside the SAPERmercato of Frascati, for the European Research Night 2016, try to find an answer.  

Today the italian prime Minister Matteo Renzi and Stefania Giannini, who leads Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR), have visited INFN's Gran Sasso National Laboratories. 

The prestigious International Prize "Bruno Pontecorvo" 2016 was awarded to the Italian physicist Gianpaolo Bellini with the following motivations: “…for his outstanding contributions to the development of low-energy neutrino detection methods, their realization in the Borexino detector, and the important solar and geo-neutrino results obtained in this experiment". The Yury members were Samoil Bilenky, Luciano Maiani, Arthur McDonald (Nobel Prize 2015), Alexander Olshevskiy (chair), Yoichiro Suzuki.

LISA Pathfinder has released its two small cubes of gold and platinum, beginning its scientific mission. Realized by ESA - with the fundamental contribution of ASI, and a collaboration of  INFN and Trento University - its goal is to demonstrate the technological feasibility of the detection of gravitational waves into the space.