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During the last meeting of the Eurpean Physical Society at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research of Dubna in Russia, our colleague Nicola Bianchi was elected as the next president of the Nuclear Physics Division (EPS http://www.eps.org).

The National Laboratory of Frascati offered the students from the “T. C. Onesti” High School in Fermo a chance to work on one of its particle accelerators: the Beam Test Facility.

The particle accelerator DAFNE is in full warm-up to start again with KLOE-2’s Run-3. All of the tests on its machinery and many subsystems have been completed.

The INFN National Laboratory of Frascati open their XVI edition of Incontri di Fisica (IdF 2.0 – 2016), a refresher course on Modern Physics addressed to high school teachers from all over Italy.

The DAΦNE accelerator complex has just completed the second cycle of operations, Run II, aimed at providing data to the KLOE-2 experiment.

In 1589 the Italian scientist Galileo Galilei performed in Pisa his ground-breaking acceleration experiments, observing balls accelerating down a ramp. He timed the rolling balls by counting his heart beat, finding that the “the spaces traversed were to each other as the squares of the times”. Galileo’s results violated the ancient theory from Aristotles and a few years later Galieo’s contract as lecturer at Pisa University was not renewed. Nowadays school kids all over the world learn about acceleration with the famous formula from Galileo.

The 4th of July the installation process of a brand new compressor for the DAΦNE cryogenic plant has started.

OPENLABS NIGHT – Scienza, Rete e Tecnologia Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati Venerdì 30 settembre, dalle 15:30 alle 21:00, i LNF aprono nuovamente al pubblico per un’edizione speciale di OpenLabs, in occasione della Notte Europea dei Ricercatori.

The seventh edition of the summer Erice International School of Science Journalism (EISSJC 2016) has now started in Sicily, at the Ettore Majorana Foundation, thanks to the support of the “Enrico Fermi” Centre for Study and Research, the INFN-National Laboratory of Frascati and the professional association Science Writers in Italy.

Theoretical and computational work on the interaction between electromagnetic radiation and matter, as well as the most advanced techniques employed for the construction of the large particle physics accelerators, also provide useful insights into complex biochemical and biological systems.