The energy spectrum of the highest-energy particles in the Universe, ultra-high energy cosmic rays, has been measured with the Pierre Auger Observatory with an unprecedented precision.

Held online, from 14th to 18th September 2020. Sara Ziliani (PhD Student, Nuclear Physics) is awarded for the 2019 Best Communication of Section 1, Nuclear and subuclear Physics.

On "Nature Communications", the study of the researchers of the Physics Department that have created an algorithm to design high efficiency metamaterial actuators, going beyond the traditional human design.

A study published in the journal PNAS by Alessio Zaccone, from our Department, and Kostya Trachenko, from the Department of Physics at Queen Mary University of London, identifies the universal law which governs the surprising elasticity of liquids confined on sub-millimeter scales.

A study directed by Prof. Alessio Zaccone from our Department has shown that the formation of solid-like network materials formed by colloidal nanoparticles follows the laws of a second-order phase transition far from thermodynamic equilibrium.