Awards ceremony during the 2026 Ig Nobel ceremony. Credit: Improbable Research, via YouTube Imagine a day in September, a theater full of scientists and curious people and a group of Nobel Prize winners on stage… dressed up as mushrooms! This is what happened last night at the Kongresshaus in Zurich, Switzerland where it was held, for the first time outside ...
The three hurricanes active simultaneously in the Pacific Ocean at this time. Tking hurricanes I am active at the same time in the heart ofPacific Oceanwhere nature is staging a show as fascinating as it is disturbing: renamed Lowell, Karina and Marie, they now head towards the Hawaii. This is an extraordinary synchrony event that was not recorded for over ...
AI-generated image for illustrative purposes. When we think about theastronaut trainingwe probably imagine space suits, simulations of weightlessness and tough physical training. However, preparing for a mission that involves landing on the Moon, or in the future on Mars, also means knowing how to interact with a new territory, which astronauts will have to be able to explore. In fact, ...
An image of El Niño. Credit: Copernicus ESA The Secretary General of the UN António Guterres raises the alarm on the climate situation: “El Niño is assuming gigantic proportions. The planet is in uncharted waters“. Global temperatures continue to rise and the world finds itself fully projected into danger zone for extreme weather phenomena. The United Nations climate agency estimates ...
The Adamello glacier, between Trentino-Alto Adige and Lombardy. There landslide which on September 1st detached itself from Monvisoat approximately 3500 meters above sea level and close to the Quintino Sella refugeis only the latest in a series of landslide events that affected the Alps during the summer. The cause of these phenomena are the increasingly higher temperatures due to global ...
In recent weeks, European health radars have intercepted an epidemiological anomaly linked to a bacterial infection (Dermatophilus congolensis) historically known in the veterinary field: the dermatophilosisknown in popular parlance as “rain disease”. According to a recent report by the ECDC (European Center for Disease Prevention and Control), starting from the end of 2025 approximately 123 human cases distributed in 10 ...
You’re watching Growing brains Don’t miss out on more content from Geopop THE children they have some extraordinary abilities: they can learn very complex things, such as speaking and walking, with impressive speed. There is a reason for all this: in the first thousand days, from conception to age two, the brain creates an incredible amount of over one million ...
The ministers of the government led by Giorgia Meloni, the longest in the history of the Italian Republic. Credit: Giorgia Meloni official website The government led by Giorgia Meloni it’s officially the longer-lived in the history of the Italian Republic: with 1,413 days elapsed since taking office, the current executive (the first in the history of Italy to be led ...
The threshold of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels risks being exceeded in the coming years In recent years the alarms of the scientific community and United Nations they became more and more pressing. The climatological reports and the evidence in the field, from the dramatic melting of the Alpine glaciers to the serious suffering of the waterways, confirm one fact: the ...
Image generated with AI. In the village of Pieńin the Central-northern Polandarchaeologists have identified a 17th century burial destined to become one of the most singular cases in the cemetery. The tomb, identified by number 75, belonged to one young woman and featured a combination of objects that, according to the authors of a new multidisciplinary study, documents ritual practices ...