THE Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games will take place from Friday 6 to Sunday 22 February 2026. But what exactly are they? It is the most important global multi-sport event dedicated to the disciplines that take place on ice or snow. Established in 1924, they are held every four years, staggered from the summer games. The first edition was a ...
The sexual drive in men would reach its peak on average around 40 years old (the so-called mid-life peak), although testosterone levels in males begin to decline after age 30. This is the result of a massive study conducted on over 67,000 adults from the Estonian Biobank. To explain what seems like a “biological paradox,” researchers have proposed some mechanisms ...
A team of Australian researchers may have confirmed that i stone blocks of Stonehenge were transported by human beingswho would move them from their places of origin in Wales and Scotland toSouthern England. The large distances – even hundreds of kilometers – that separate the Neolithic boulders from the places where the rocks from which they come were formed had ...
The human brain it is one of the most efficient information processing systems ever observed, it just consumes 20 watts to power 86 billion neuronsmanaging cognitive tasks of very high complexity.With a mass of approximately 1.3–1.4 kg, equal to just over 2% of body weight, the human brain consumes approximately 20% of the body’s basal metabolism. In terms of power, ...
Representative image of the Doomsday Clock, generated with AI. «85 seconds until midnight»: this is the time that the hands of the Doomsday Clock are marking 2026, but what does it mean? The Doomsday Clock it is a symbol, a reminder, a metaphor that reminds the public how close we are to destroying our world with technologies of our own ...
On the evening of Remembrance Day 2026 and on 28 January, Rai 1 pays homage to the victims of the Holocaust with fiction Morbo K, whoever saves a life, saves the whole world by Francesco Patierno. Although there are fictionalized elements within it, the series tells the true story of the doctor Giovanni Borromeohead physician at the Fatebenefratelli hospital who ...
Every year, it’s always the same story: in common perception, January it seems to never end. Yet it has 31 days, just like other months of the year… so how is it possible that many people perceive it as a month “infinite”? The main reason is the fact that January is mostly a month of work, which comes right after ...
Credit: NTSB The Washington plane crash it was the result of a “multitude of errors” and of systemic problems linked to various organizations: this is what is established by National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB, the US transportation safety agency) on the disaster that the January 29, 2025 caused the death of 67 people following the collision between an airliner and ...
There condensing boiler it is a latest generation thermal system, characterized by high energy efficiency obtained through the recovery of a substantial fraction of thermal energy produced which, in the traditional boilerswould come irreversibly missing. The operation is based on innovative technologies that optimize energy consumption, ensuring high performance and a reduction inuse of methane gaswith a consequent decrease in ...
Under the Bermudathe North Atlantic archipelago off the US coast, the Earth’s mantle hides a anomalous rock structure: not very dense and over 20 km thick, it acts as a “buffer” keeping the islands raised and making them emerge from the sea. It is this structure that explains so that Bermuda didn’t sink when the mantle magma stopped fueling their ...