Ecology

IT-Alert test in Lombardy on 28 November due to industrial accident: time and municipalities in which the alarm sounds

IT-Alert test in Lombardy on 28 November due to industrial accident: time and municipalities in which the alarm sounds

Today November 28 a new test will be held IT-Alert: after Umbria and Veneto, the public alarm system will be tested in Lombardy for the specific risk of “major industrial accident”, involving the plant Bracco Imaging SpA of Ceriano Laghetto (MB). At 09:00, all devices within i 3km from the plant, subject to Seveso Directivethey will receive a message. The ...

How the two enormous "islands" were formed at a depth of 2900 km on the border with the Earth's core

How the two enormous “islands” were formed at a depth of 2900 km on the border with the Earth’s core

The magma ocean of the early Earth above the core-mantle boundary. Credit: Yoshinori Miyazaki A new study, developed by a team of American and Chinese researchers and published in the journal Natureexplains how two huge ones could have originated “islands” as big as continentsmade up of hot and dense rocky masses with anomalous chemical composition, which are found in the ...

How SAM 3D works, the new Meta AI model that transforms 2D images into 3D models

How SAM 3D works, the new Meta AI model that transforms 2D images into 3D models

Credit: Meta. In the past few days Half he announced SAM 3D (Segment Anything Model), a software that allows you to extrapolate complex and spatially coherent three-dimensional models starting from simple two-dimensional photographs. The heart of this new technological architecture lies in two distinct but complementary models: SAM 3D Objects And SAM 3D Body. The first is specifically engineered for ...

From tempered chocolate to Baci Perugina: in the factory to show you the production

From tempered chocolate to Baci Perugina: in the factory to show you the production

To obtain a chocolate bar with a shiny appearance and perfect consistency, it is not enough to simply melt and cool some chocolate. There is a real science behind it: that of temperingwhich we experienced in the Perugina Chocolate School. In the video we show you how two chocolate bars obtained from a single melted mass, but cooled following two ...

How much and on what do Italian families spend: half shell out at least 2,240 euros a month

How much and on what do Italian families spend: half shell out at least 2,240 euros a month

In 2024 the average expense of Italian families was 2,755 euros per montha substantially stable figure compared to 2023 as reported by ISTAT. The most significant data, however, is the median one: half of Italian families spent at least 2,240 euros per month, approximately 46 euros more than the previous year. This indicator better captures daily reality because it is ...

Fire in Hong Kong, let's clarify the use of bamboo for scaffolding and scaffolding

Fire in Hong Kong, let’s clarify the use of bamboo for scaffolding and scaffolding

The fire in Hong Kong. Credit: Svilen Georgiev, via THE’fire broke out in the Wang Fuk Court residential complex, located in the Tai Po neighborhood Hong Kong (China), caused at least 65 deaths and approx 279 missing: while the death toll continues to rise and firefighters work tirelessly to put out the flames that have engulfed 7 of the 8 ...

There may be two unknown passages in Menkaure's pyramid at Giza: two entrances discovered

There may be two unknown passages in Menkaure’s pyramid at Giza: two entrances discovered

Generated with AI On the east side of the Menkaure pyramidthe smallest of the famous pyramid complex of Gizathere could be two hidden secondary entrances. The discovery was published recently by the team ScanPyramidsa Franco-Egyptian collaboration aimed at studying the pyramids using non-invasive techniques. The tall pyramid of Menkaure 65 metersAnd the smallest and most recent of the large necropolar ...

New coincidence between comet 3I/ATLAS and Jupiter, but alien spaceships have nothing to do with it: Avi Loeb's "theory"

New coincidence between comet 3I/ATLAS and Jupiter, but alien spaceships have nothing to do with it: Avi Loeb’s “theory”

The astrophysicist Avi Loeb highlighted new coincidence of comet 3I/ATLASthe third interstellar object discovered in our Solar System. And again, unfortunately, he uses it to reiterate his hypothesis that it could be a extraterrestrial artifact. The coincidence is this: the March 16, 2026 the comet will reach its closest proximity to Jupiter at a distance of approximately 53.5 million km ...

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What is the polar vortex and why is there talk of its weakening: what it means for winter in Italy

Atmospheric circulation. Credit: Severe Weather Europe With the recent drop in temperatures, even in Italy we have started talking about “polar vortex” and its weakening as possible cause of the harsh winter that awaits us. But what does all this mean? The polar vortex is a sort of permanent cyclone over the Earth’s polespowered by very low temperatures. When this ...

What are the differences between mandarins, tangerines and clementines?

What are the differences between mandarins, tangerines and clementines?

When winter arrives, the usual boxes full of citrus fruits. At first glance they all look the same: small, orange, fragrant. Then you open one, then another, and you realize that they change a lot. One is very sweet, another is more pungent, yet another smells of resin. But why are they so different if they look the same? In ...