Credits: Fred Espenak. There are two spectaculars coming in the next two summers total solar eclipsesin which for a few minutes the Moon’s disk will completely cover that of the Sun, creating an enchanting “twilight” effect that will affect the entire horizon in broad daylight. The dates to mark in the calendar are August 12, 2026 and the August 2, ...
The obligation to share our social history of the last 5 years with the US authoritiesif the proposal under discussion is approved, it will significantly change the way we use theESTA (Electronic System for Travel Authorization), i.e. the digital system through which citizens of visa-exempt countries apply for a travel permit for short stays in the United States. The novelty, ...
Earthquake in Japan measuring 6.7. A strong one earthquake of magnitude 6.7 hit the north of Japan at 11.44am (local time, 03:44 in Italy today, December 12. According to what was reported by INGV, the epicenter was located at seaapproximately 122km from the coast of the island of Honshu – Aomori prefecture–, that is the largest island in Japanwhich is ...
The National Bank of Agriculture after the explosion (via Wikimedia Commons). The terrorist attack known as the “Piazza Fontana massacre” saw the detonation of a bomb in the Banca Nazionale dell’Agricoltura, in Piazza Fontana in Milan, which on 12 December 1969 caused a total 17 victims and 88 injured. It was an indiscriminate massacre of unarmed civilians and was not ...
Many times we find ourselves wondering “But was it that cold last year?” or “But was it this hot in other years?”. These are questions that can be answered by searching through the meteorological archives, and that’s what we did: we bring you the temperatures of December 12th scheduled for Milan, Rome, Naples And Palermocompared with those of the same ...
The people Maori has become internationally famous both thanks to haka – the ritual dance performed by the All Blacks before each rugby match – and thanks to the animated blockbuster Oceania. But their story, in reality, is much more detailed and complex than that and has its roots in Oceania. How did the Maori people arise? We don’t know ...
The Christmas 2025 will bring with it more acquisitionsbetween gifts for friends and family and typical products to bring to the table: this year, however, the costsas highlighted in the Federconsumatori survey, which revealed a average price increase of +3.7% compared to 2024. Comparing the price trend over the last decade, in 2025 buy a panettone it will cost us ...
A new paleoclimatic study conducted on a stalactite from the island of Flores, Indonesia, shows a marked decline in rainfall between 76,000 and 55,000 years ago, with a peak of aridity shortly before the disappearance of Homo floresiensisone of the most curious and well-known extinct human species, which lived between 700,000 and 50,000 years ago and is considered an example ...
In the forests of Madagascar hides the Darwin’s bark spider (Caerostris darwini), a natural “engineer” famous for weaving the cobwebs toughest on the planet. These structures, long too 25 meters and wide up to 2.8 square metershave been found suspended above rivers and are made of silk ten times stronger than Kevlarthe material of bulletproof vests. However large they are, ...
Credit: NASA The Thwaites Glacierknown as “glacier of the Apocalypse”, in West Antarcticait’s becoming increasingly unstable. Its ice shelf floating on the ocean is fracturing and its anchor point to land is weakening. If the glacier were to disintegrate and melt completely, the sea level could rise by more than 1 metre. The mechanism by which Thwaites is losing ice ...