The eruption of the Sakurajima volcano. Credit: Rainmaker1973, via The Sakurajima volcanoin Japanhas once again made itself felt by generating three different eruptions on the Japanese island of Kyushu – in the south-west of the country – raising a column of smoke and ash up to 4.4 km high and causing the cancellation of over 30 flights from the airport ...
November 17th marks the anniversary of the inauguration of the Suez Canalone of the most important hydraulic engineering works ever carried out for its strategic nature and its role in civil and communicative development between continents. Inaugurated on November 17, 1869, it is a navigable canal located in Egypt near the Sinai Peninsula, which connects the Red Sea to the ...
In Italy interest in politics is declining: today less than half of the population gets information at least once a week. According to the latest ISTAT report, almost a third of the population never talks about politics, not even at the bar or in the family: we are talking about over 18 million people, more women than men, who ignore ...
A new study published in Molecular Psychiatry shed light on a discovery related to a process called adaptive defensive learninga mechanism that allows us not to live constantly on alert. When the brain perceives a dangerreacts in a few moments: he can immobilize (the classic freezing), escape or attack. These automatic responses are essential for survival. But what happens if ...
The idea that there is something hidden at the end of the rainbow pot of goldwatched over by a cunning elf – the Leprechaunis typical of Irish folklore. It is said that only farmer Barry came close to the treasure, but his thirst for wealth led him to lose everything and the pot became unattainable. Thus, today as then, the ...
If you hear someone talking about burnsyou will surely think that he got too close to the chestnuts on the fire or that he touched something glowing. I mean, burns = fire, right? No, actually even ice can make us burn, causing burns very similar to those caused by fire or very high temperatures. The fault lies in the low ...
There are many athletes who, in modern football, choose to make goals before or during a match holes to their socks. This, as one might imagine, has always elicited a notable level of curiosity among the fans. Many journalists, in fact, have asked those directly involved several times the reasons behind this choice, obtaining, more or less, the same answer. ...
PLATO Terminal V. Credits: Jason Scott, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. In the 1973 there was already a system capable of making groups of people communicate in real time, sharing the screen and watching each other’s words appear letter after letter. His name was Talkomaticand it was a primordial instant messaging system designed in a very particular context: not ...
Image generated with AI. The May 17, 1884 The Brooklyn Bridge was crossed by a procession of 21 elephants, 10 dromedaries And 7 camels to test its resistance. Of course, reading the news like this might seem like a slightly eccentric method for verifying the robustness of the structure, but everything was designed specifically to reassure the population. But… in ...
Today, November 16, 2025, occurs l’80th anniversary since the birth ofUNESCOthe United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization which, among other things, also deals with naming the “World Heritage Sites”, i.e. sites of exceptional importance from a cultural or naturalistic point of view that deserve to be protected. To date, i UNESCO heritage sites in the world they are in ...