interdisciplinary research

A simulation of a collision between planetary bodies, similar to ideas currently used to explain giant impacts in the solar system. New research suggests reading the fall of Satan in Dante’s “Inferno” through a similar lens of impact physics. Credit: Hernan Canellas/ASU

Did Dante's "Inferno" describe a celestial body's impact centuries before modern science?

A Marshall University researcher suggests reading the fall of Satan in Dante’s “Inferno” as a scenario reminiscent of a giant asteroid impact. This is an interdisciplinary interpretation presented at the EGU 2026 conference, and not a new geological finding.
The Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Two researchers at the Hebrew University will receive grants of 2 million euros each from the ERC

In addition, two outstanding researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem were chosen to join the EMBO young researchers program