Academic rankings paint a grim picture of Italian universities. Data on faculty hirings in the US tell a different story, as commented on Nature.

Just a few months since its launch, the James Webb Space Telescope has already provided a wealth of exquisite data and extraordinary results, being a worthy successor of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Thanks to its unprecedented high resolution and sensitivity, the new infrared space telescope is revolutionising the way we see our Universe.

The award ceremony as EPS Historic Site of the Institute of Complementary Physics of Milan University took place in the hall of the Department of Physics “Aldo Pontremoli” on 16th September 2022. The Institute of Complementary Physics was the first physics institute established at the foundation of Milan University in 1924. The Institute was established by Aldo Potremoli, its first director, and was immediately characterised by the extreme modernity of its research topics.

The Departments of Physics and Computer Science hosted (19-22/09/22) the 13th International Workshop on Non-Neutral Plasmas (NNP), gathering of the worldwide community of "trappers" including plasma and low-energy charged particle physicists.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 was awarded jointly to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger "for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science".