The Plot Of The Week – Multiple Pentaquark Candidates
It is a bit embarrassing to post here a graph of boring elementary particle signals, when the rest of the blogosphere is buzzing after the release of the first real black hole image from the Event Horizon collaboration. So okay, before going into penta... Continue reading
Migrazioni climatiche verso l’Italia #CNR
Uno studio dell’Istituto sull’inquinamento atmosferico del Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche (Cnr-Iia), pubblicato suEnvironmental Research Communications, mostra come nel recente passato le migrazioni dall’area del Sahel all’Italia siano state guidate soprattutto dalle variazioni meteo-climatiche in quelle zone, dove si evidenziano intensi … Continua a leggere → Continue reading
Accelerating The Search For Dark Matter With Machine Learning
Yes, this is supposedly a particle physics blog, not a machine learning one - and yet, I have been finding myself blogging a lot more about machine learning than particle physics as of late. Why is that? Well, of course the topic of algorithms tha... Continue reading
Scienza in Parlamento
Caro Marco Cattaneo, ho letto il tuo editoriale sull’ultimo numero di Le Scienze e l’appello a gli scienziati italiani per aderire all’invito di promuovere un comitato che sia di supporto al parlamento nelle scelte nel campo della scienza … Continua a leggere → Continue reading
No final frontier
read the entire article in Nature Reviews Physics …Lessons from the past teach us that despite difficulties, big science projects tend to work out and the outcomes, predicted or not, are well worth the investment. There is little evidence that other areas are deprived of funding, because the potential big budget is not automatically redistributed to… Continue reading
Grillo parlante…
A volte ho osato criticare alcuni blog di “cronaca” sul clima poiché, affianco alla loro assolutamente meritevole battaglia, pongono poca attenzione a come comunicano il messaggio scientifico e sociale su quel che sta accadendo. Catastrofismo ambientale, la ascientificità della quantificazione … Continua a leggere → Continue reading
#DOE #INFN Summer Student Fellowship
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The Plot Of The Week – ATLAS Dilepton Resonance Search
For the tenth anniversary of this blog being hosted by Science 2.0, which is coming in a few days, I decided to reinstall the habit I once had of weekly picking and commenting on a result from high-energy physics research, a series I called "The Plot O... Continue reading

