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Last July the KLOE-2 experiment successfully completed its third data-taking period (Run-III) at the DAΦNE Φ-factory collider.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 was awarded to Barry Barish and Kip S. Thorne, both of Caltech, and to Rainer Weiss of MIT, for their role in the discovery of gravitational waves

4-6 October, National Laboratory of Frascati It will start on the 4th of October the XVII edition of Incontri di Fisica 2017,an educational and training course in Modern Physics for high school teachers from all over Italy organized by LNF.

On Friday 8th of September 17.00 h, Auditorium of Convitto Nazionale “Amedeo di Savoia duca di Aosta” – Tivoli On the 100th anniversary of the birth of the physicist Marcello Conversi, the Rotary Club of Tivoli, under the patronage of the municipality, will offer the chance to watch “I ragazzi di via Giulia”, a documentary dedicated to the Conversi-Pancini-Piccioni experiment.

The first micro-RWELL, produced in 2009, easily fitted inside a drawer of the KLOE/LHCb clean room. It had an active area of 5 x 5 cm2 and it had not even been set on a PCB yet. 

At the beginning of 2017 a new instrument – on the cutting edge of 3D Printing – started to operate in our Labs.

Catalina Oana Curceanu, LNF senior researcher, won the prestigious price Emmy Noether Distinction for Women in Physics 2017, established by EPS,  European Physical Society.

In the international competition “Beamline for schools 2017″, organized by CERN, the win goes to Liceo Scientifico Statale “T.C. Onesti” of Fermo.

OpenLabs 2017- Playing with Science! 2100 enthusiastic participants to the LNF open day proved that playing with science is possible! Physics theorems mixed up with juggling, interactive labs and original scientific talks, all this contributed to create a festive atmosphere around the world of science.

It’s all ready to start with the 18th edition of the LNF Summer residential stages. The Labs will receive more than 100 high school students from all over the country who will experience the working reality of an international research center.