Almost two meters tall, up to 80 kg in weight, sharp claws and beak: the cassowary it is one of the most impressive birds in the world together with the ostrich. It is part of the ratite group, to which other large birds such as ostrich, moa and emu belong. Commonly the cassowary is also considered the more dangerous for ...
In recent years, cities around the world are facing a increasingly evident change: sudden rains that become floods, scorching summers, landslides and increasingly frequent fires. Phenomena that once seemed exceptional are now part of normality and put territories and communities to the test. The causes are quite well known: the changing climate, disorderly urban expansion, and excessive land use that ...
THE’International Energy Agency (International Energy AgencyIEA) predicted that the peak of demand for fossil fuels (oil, gas and coal) will not be achieved by 2030. This is what emerges from the report World Energy Outlook 2025, which revised the forecasts for 2023, when the Agency highlighted how the global consumption of fossil fuels would have reached its peak in 2030and ...
“Artificial intelligence” refers to the ability of machines to imitate human functions and behaviors such as learning, the ability to reason and generate language, solve problems, make decisions – but also to understand human beings, simulating empathy and expressing “feelings”. This happens thanks to LLM“large language models”, which, thanks to training on billions of texts and conversations, are able to ...
Rook, knight, queen, king and pawns: most chess pieces are inspired by objects, people and animals that we all have in mind. But thebishop what does it represent instead? It is one of the most important pieces on the board, capable of traveling any distance diagonally, but unlike all the others its origin is often unknown. THE’bishopin general, represents the ...
In Australia rocks with fragments of natural glass have been discovered (tektites) which would prove the impact of a meteorite on the earth approximately 11 million years agowhose has not yet been found crater: this is the conclusion of a study recently published in the international scientific journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters. Experts have delimited the impact region in ...
There Jeddah Towerwith its 1000 meters of height, will be the tallest skyscraper in the world, beating the current record of 852 meters of Burji Khalifa of Dubai. Previously known as Kingdom Tower and under construction in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, it is one of the most ambitious projects in the world, which like Burji Khalifa bears the signature of the ...
In the pantry of most of us there is never a shortage of: a jar of pesto ready to use, convenient and practical for seasoning pasta. But how is a jar of pesto produced? In this video we show you the agricultural and industrial work what’s behind it thanks to the farms that gave us access to the fields and ...
Northern Lights spotted in Pietra di Bismantova, province of Reggio Emilia in the early hours of November 12, 2025. Credit: Andrea Casali After the G4 category geomagnetic storm (“severe”) that it caused Northern Lights also visible from Italy in the early hours of yesterday, the geomagnetic disturbance on Earth is still ongoing, currently as a storm category G1 (“minor”) with ...
The limits of the Campi Flegrei caldera, with the earthquake hypocentres. Credit: Zollo et al. THE earthquakes related to bradyseism occurred so far Phlegraean Fieldsalthough very numerous, have had for the most part low magnitude, less than 3. A new study published on explains why Nature Communications Earth & Environmentconducted by researchers from the “E. Pancini” Department of Physics of ...