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In Italy, women represent almost half of research workers. This piece of data alone would be enough to prove their decisive and essential contribution to the scientific enterprise and production of new knowledge. Despite this, a gap generally persists, especially at higher levels, between the professional careers of female and male researchers. Thus, in recent years, there have been many initiatives and campaigns that, drawing attention to the problem of gender inequality in science, are engaged in highlighting the results obtained by women researchers, on the one hand to inspire new generations of women to undertake scientific careers and, on the other hand, to raise awareness regarding these issues. One of the most famous and enduring initiatives is “For Women in Science”, an international award promoted by the L’Oréal foundation in collaboration with UNESCO. Every year, the award offers grants to benefit young scientists who come from STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) disciplines and who therefore cover a wide range of research fields with their projects: from those relating to biological sciences, to research in the field of high-energy physics. The women researchers that win in the Italian section are awarded for the quality of their projects and for continuing to undertake their work in Italy. The 2020 national edition of the competition concluded at the end of September with the announcement of the names of six winners. Valentina Mariani, a researcher with the INFN division of Perugia who is part of the CMS experiment’s international scientific collaboration at CERN’s LHC accelerator, was awarded a prize for her project that looks to the future of the LHC and is dedicated to improving the capacity of detectors for investigating rare phenomena that can provide us with clues regarding the new physics.
What is the “L’Oréal For Women in Science” award? It is an international initiative that is held at the national level, and which involves awarding prizes in the form of grants for scientific research, which are financed by L’Oréal and UNESCO. In Italy, in the last 18 years, six grants have been awarded to as many scientists. The prize is aimed at young researchers under 35, who are encouraged to pursue their research activity in STEM fields in an Italian research centre or university. Each grant covers a period of ten months, for which 20,000 Euros are allocated, which, thus, allows researchers to keep working in Italy. ...
The Borexino scientific collaboration, an experiment at the INFN Gran Sasso National Laboratories, published on the November 26th issue of Nature the announcement of the first ever detection of neutrinos produced in the Sun by the CNO cycle (carbon-nitrogen-oxygen). It is an experimental result of historical value, which completes a chapter of physics that started in the 1930 decade of the last century. ...
There is a key reaction of that fundamental process, called Big Bang nucleosynthesis, which led to the production of lighter chemical elements in the first moments of life of our universe. It is the reaction leading to one of the two stable Helium isotopes, Helium-3, from one proton and one deuterium nucleus. The LUNA experiment has now investigated this reaction ...
To implement a third-generation gravitational wave observatory, the Einstein Telescope – ET, able to observe cosmic processes with unprecedented sensitivity, a multidisciplinary team, made up of researchers from the National Institute for Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), INFN, the Universities of Sassari, Padua, Sapienza of Rome, Federico II of Naples, GSSI Gran Sasso Science Institute and EGO European Gravitational Observatory, conducted a study on the dismissed metal mine of Sos Enattos, in Sardinia, thanks to the support o ...
In Europe, researchers studying the mechanisms for the synthesis of chemical elements in stellar combustion or in extreme cosmic events will be able to make use of a new resource: the ChETEC-INFRA (Chemical Elements as Tracers of the Evolution of the Cosmos-Infrastructure) project, which seeks to facilitate the sharing of results obtained and methodologies used in this field of investigation. ChETEC-INFRA will constitute a network between the three different types of infrastructures on which research in this sector is based: astro-nuclear ...
November is rich in meetings with the public and with students, from primary schools to secondary schools. November saw INFN researchers engaged in many public engagement activities, starting with the International Cosmic Day, continuing with the “Futuro Remoto” Festival and the National Geographic Festival of Sciences, and concluding with a huge number of activities ...
IDMAR FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF STRATEGIC RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES IN SICILYAn ambitious project for the creation of a distributed multidisciplinary underwater laboratory off the coast of Sicily, for scientific and technological research in the marine environment that is connected to a land laboratory through submarine cables equipped with electrical conductors and optical fibre. This project is called IDMAR and it is co-funded by the Region of Sicily with the action 1.5.1 (development of research infrastructure) of the European Regional Development Fund. Operational Programme 2014-2020, Regional Business Department, and the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research included it among the infrastructure works deemed priorities by the National Roadmap for Research Infrastructure. INFN, as leader, INGV the National Institute for Geophysics and Volcanology and CNR the National Research Council are all collaborating in setting it up. Launched in 2018, IDMAR is keeping to the work schedule and has already obtained significant results. The most recent, announced at the beginning of November, is the completion of works for expanding the land station of INFN Southern National Laboratories in Portopalo di Capo Passero. The station hosts the technological equipment to support the two large European research infrastructures, KM3NET, the underwater neutrino telescope under construction at a depth of 3500 metres, off the coast of Capo Passero, and the EMSO-ERIC, a distributed network of sensors dedicated to studying the Mediterranean in terms of geophysics, volcanology, and the marine environment. Thanks to IDMAR, the underwater infrastructures will be expanded, to allow the management and acquisition of data from the large KM3NeT telescope, and to put into operation the largest cabled underwater laboratory in the Mediterranean. The laboratories o...
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