Generated with AI for illustrative purposes only. The Somniosus microcephalusit Greenland sharkis the longest-lived vertebrate known on Earth capable of swimming in the freezing waters of the North Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean for 300 years. A feature that fascinates researchers in biology of aging. How does a heart beat for centuries? It must be a healthy heart, free of ...
How many times have we heard of the Normale di Pisa or the Sant’Anna as centers of Italian university excellence? Many. But did you know that from 2022, in the heart of Naples, there will be an excellence of this kind? Is called Southern High Schooland the name itself can be misleading: it is not a high school, nor even ...
The shopping cart it is one of the most widespread objects in the world, which we now use without even thinking about it. It was invented in 1937 by Sylvan Nathan Goldman for its supermarkets Humpty Dumpty in Oklahoma City and improved by Orla Watsonwhich added the basket and rear opening. The history of this object is also the history ...
Amateur photo of 3I/ATLAS taken with a Celestron EdgeHD 800 telescope on November 16. Credits: Satoru Murata, Wikimedia Commons. There interstellar comet 3I/ATLASdiscovered in July 2025 and already at the center of a media case due to the statements of Avi Loeb on its alleged alien origin, widely denied by the scientific community, continues to prove of enormous scientific interest ...
The streets and parks of many Italian cities are invaded these days by “spring snow”, those white puffs that resemble cotton that fly out of control. But what is it? Often confused with “pollens” and called “poplars” or “pioppini”, they actually are pappi and are used to transport with the wind poplar seedsa very widespread plant in the Po Valley. ...
Sabastian Sawe wins the 2026 London Marathon. Credit: via X.com The streets of London were the stage for something many people thought they would never see: a human being running a marathon in less than two hours in official condition. And not just one: two in the same race on Sunday 26 April 2026, with 3 men under the previous ...
When we think about New Zealand what immediately comes to mind is the archipelago in the Pacific Ocean, located on the other side of the globe from Italy. But is there an “Old Zealand” that the colonizers took inspiration from when naming this new territory? Well yes, and this place is found in the Netherlands, Europe: Zealand (Zealand in Dutch) ...
The arrows and yellow curved lines indicate the obvious moiré effect present in the image. By pointing our smartphone camera at the computer or television screen, they will almost inevitably appear strange streaks or waves in the captured image. But why does this happen? For a very specific phenomenon, known as moiré effect. And no, it is not due to ...
In recent days, the news has been circulating on social media and various information sites that today’s high school students have levels of anxiety comparable to those of patients admitted to mental asylums in the 1950s. This statement, however, is incorrect: it derives from an excessive simplification of a study published by the psychologist J.M. Twengea meta-analysis from which it ...
Those who work in Italy today earn, in real terms, less than they did in 1990. It is not a sensation, and it does not depend only on the inflation of recent years. This is data certified by the OECD, confirmed by Istat and reiterated by the Bank of Italy: Italian wages have been stagnant for over thirty yearsin a ...