Shanghai 2025: The University of Pisa ranks among the world’s top institutions for Veterinary Sciences, Robotics, Mathematics and Energy Science
The ranking assesses over 1,900 universities worldwide across 57 disciplines and the University appears in 24 subject areas
The unprecedented state of preservation of a fossil from Southern Italy sheds light on Neanderthal facial morphology
The research was carried out by an international team that includes Antonio Profico, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Pisa
The Nutrafood Centre has signed an agreement with the Shiology Centre of Renmin University (China)
The collaboration was signed during the 5th World Shiology Forum in Haikou, strengthening the ties between the University of Pisa and one of China’s leading academic institutions
Synchronised smiles, shared pleasure: the evolutionary roots of sexual communication
A study conducted by the University of Pisa reveals that, in bonobos, shared pleasure is closely linked to reciprocal facial expressions, offering new insights into the evolutionary origins of human non-verbal communication
The Contamination Lab at the University of Pisa has been recognised as one of the best practices in Europe for entrepreneurship education
The Pisa-based initiative is featured as one of the most innovative models in the EU report “Entrepreneurial Skills and Mindsets in Education”
Professor Dino Pedreschi has been appointed Vice-Chair of the EU working group on the transparency of AI-generated content
The professor from the University of Pisa will contribute to drafting the “Code of Practice” of the AI Act, which focuses on the recognisability of content produced by generative artificial intelligence
“Toxic-free” products: Europe awards the SUSTECH project an ERC Synergy Grant worth approximately EUR 10 million
The international project, which involves the University of Pisa and the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, will use computational chemistry and artificial intelligence to explore how to prevent the spread of hazardous substances from the design stage of everyday goods and consumer products.
Fermilab’s SQMS Center funded with $125 million to shape the future of quantum information science
The University of Pisa among partners of Chicago lab led by alumna Anna Grassellino.
War? Not the natural condition of humankind — The latest book by Tommaso Greco
In Critica della ragione bellica (Laterza, 2025), Professor Greco puts forward ‘legal pacifism’ as a means of safeguarding peace before war breaks out
Patents filed by women in Italy between 1861 and 1939 have been catalogued for the first time: the first was a lady from Genoa
1,878 patents were filed, accounting for 0.7% of the total, spanning every field including mechanics, the textile industry, transport, armaments, and innovations for the home. Tuscany is a particular focus, with Pisa and Florence standing out