The oil field Of Kashagan Fields (Kazakhstan) represents to date one of the most significant discoveries of the last half century in the oil sector. With his 38 billion barrels of crude oil”in place” (present on site) is among the largest offshore fields – on the seabed of territorial or international waters – discovered in recent decades. To extract it, ...
Moltbook represents an unprecedented case study in the evolution of digital platforms: it is a social network designed exclusively for interaction between AI agentswhere humans are allowed access only as silent observers. Launched in the wake of the open source software Moltbot, this platform emulates the structure of news aggregators such as Redditallowing bots (i.e. automated programs created by users) ...
The SLS rocket during the wet dress rehearsal procedure of the Artemis II mission. Credit: NASA There Artemis II mission – which will bring man back around the Moon for the first time in 54 years – has been officially postponed: this was confirmed by the NASA administrator, Jared Isaacmanwho through a post on X communicated the decision by the ...
Some of you will have heard of at least once wax in the skiing sector and with the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics approaching, we could hear about it even more. Wax is a substance that is applied under skis for change the way your skis glide on snow. At a chemical level, we are talking about a set of molecules ...
The cabin of the Cermis cable car, hit by a US military plane on 3 February 1998. Via Wikimediacommons THE’Cermis cable car accident, a disaster that occurred 28 years ago in Val di Fiemme (Trentino-Alto Adige) but still alive in the memory of Italian society, was caused by a US military plane that collided with a ski lift on Alpe ...
While the Niscemi landslide continues, with new failures and the recent collapse of a three-storey building, in Italy attention has been rekindled on the fragility of the territory compared to landslide phenomena. The natural tendency of soils to slide towards new conditions of equilibrium makes it essential to identify tools and strategies capable of re-establishing the safety, especially in high ...
An image of the city of Pripyat today, after being abandoned. When we hear about Chernobyl the first images that come to mind are those of the disaster and of an uninhabited, gray and dangerous area. But it hasn’t always been like this: before 26 April 1986 the town of Pripyatlocated about 3 km from the power plant’s No. 4 ...
Image generated with AI. The Nazi submarine U-1206 he is among the protagonists of one of the most absurd stories of the Second World War, remembered not only for his great battles but also for small events that are often forgotten. In 1945, in fact, the submarine was forced to resurface in enemy waters – where it was immediately hit ...
Two avalanches several have affected the Friuli-Venezia Giulia and the Veneto: the Alpine Rescue intervened in Sella Nevea ea Casera Razzo for two avalanches which involved 6 people in total, one of whom was found lifeless after being overwhelmed by the snow. Accidents of this type – which occurred yesterday February 1st – are unfortunately not one novelty for our ...
The aroma of a freshly baked cake, the smell of rain on the asphalt or that of an old brand of sunscreen and “boom”, we are instantly catapulted into a precise moment in the past. This phenomenon, often referred to as “Proust syndrome” in honor of the writer who described the evocation of childhood memories, is not a simple poetic ...