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11 September 2026
Mercury, the “pencil” planet

A study by the University of Padua, the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics and the University of Milano-Bicocca shows that the planet is “lubricated” by graphite

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The partnership, formalised during the MoU Signing Ceremony held at the BIM Auditorium, aims to foster joint research, advanced education and innovation in health, artificial intelligence, energy, environment and biotechnology.
10 September 2026
University of Milano-Bicocca expands its international network Through a Memorandum of Understanding with KAUST and Bicocca Foundation

The partnership, formalised during the MoU Signing Ceremony held at the BIM Auditorium, aims to foster joint research, advanced education and innovation in health, artificial intelligence, energy, environment and biotechnology

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Led by researcher Matteo Borghesi, the TANGO project aims to develop a new generation of high-frequency gravitational-wave detectors
3 September 2026
A new way of observing the Universe: Milano-Bicocca awarded a €1.5 million ERC grant for a project to build a compact, ultra-cold detector

Led by researcher Matteo Borghesi, the TANGO project aims to develop a new generation of high-frequency gravitational-wave detectors

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Milano-Bicocca takes visitors into the future to understand which emotions drive climate action. The project has already involved more than 1,500 people
5 August 2026
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

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29 July 2026
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

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27 July 2026
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

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22 July 2026
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

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16 July 2026
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

by Comunicazione, last updated on 28/10/2025