Dear Future: a journey to 2226 to reflect on today’s environmental choices

Milano-Bicocca takes visitors into the future to understand which emotions drive climate action. The project has already involved more than 1,500 people

AI gives us access to plenty of advice, but we do not make as much use of it as we could

Today, we can easily access information and useful suggestions to support our decisions. But having them is not enough to make better choices: a study by the Universities of Milano-Bicocca and Pavia explains why

Early Universe: the “first hot breath” of the cosmic giants detected

An international team led by the University of Milano-Bicocca, with contributions from INAF, has detected the clearest emission of hot gas around a “radio-quiet” quasar approximately 2.1 billion years after the Big Bang. The results, obtained through 180 hours of observations with the Chandra Space Telescope, reveal the very earliest stages in the formation of the atmosphere that today surrounds galaxy clusters

Milano-Bicocca: when a black hole in one galaxy shuts down the stars in another

New observations by the Milan-based University and NASA using the Chandra X-ray Observatory are presented in a study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics

Children are instinctively kind long before kindness becomes a conscious choice. A Milano-Bicocca study on the development of prosociality from the ages of 3 to 10

The tests were conducted on 537 children using classic social decision-making tasks. The research, which also involved international universities, was published in the prestigious journal Nature Human Behaviour

Artificial faces: AI deceives the “eye”, but not the brain, which recognises them even when conscious perception fails

Research from the University of Milano-Bicocca demonstrates a profound dissociation between conscious perception and the implicit neural response to faces generated by artificial intelligence

Children’s and adolescents’ rights, environmental data and psychoforensic consulting, Business Administration and the osteopathic profession: five new postgraduate programmes at Milano-Bicocca

The call for applications for the Milan-based University’s Master’s programmes, advanced courses and higher education programmes for the first semester of 2026/27 has been published: 30 programmes, including the new additions. Partners include ARPA, Assolombarda and UNICEF Italia. Courses will begin in the autumn