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 ...
Image generated with AI. At least 200,000 liters of oil I am leaked from the PCK refinery pipeline into Brandenburg (Germany), due to an accident at the Gramzow pipeline station. According to initial investigations, crude oil leaked from a small leak for approximately 2 and a half hours at a pressure of approx 20 barsgoing to create a 25 meter ...
The Red Sea, the Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba. Credit: NASA The Gulf of Suezthe arm of the sea that extends in the northern part of Red Sea delimiting the Sinai peninsula, it progressively widens at the rate of approximately 0.5 mm per year. It is the result of the study by a team of Chinese, French ...
Image of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope on November 30, 2025. Credits: NASA, ESA, STScI, D. Jewitt (UCLA), M.–T. Hui (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory). Image Processing: J. DePasquale (STScI). The radio interferometer ALMAin Chile, found that the comet 3I/ATLAS releases copious amounts of methanol (CH3OH) e of hydrogen cyanide (HCN), molecules involved in the synthesis of ...
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 ofDecember 11th scheduled for Milan, Rome, Naples And Palermocompared with those of the same date ...
When we do a tattoo, what happens is that one or more needles deposit the ink inside our skin thanks to the use of a special machine. But why does the ink stay still inside the skin? It’s thanks to ours immune systemspecifically thank you macrophages, that is, cells that try to eliminate foreign bodies when they enter our skin. ...
In Australia it is illegal to use social networks for anyone under the age of 16. It is the first “ban” of this type in the world: an unprecedented decision carefully observed by governments and regulators around the world, which some teenagers have already resorted to. The aim of the law, which came into force today, Wednesday 10 December 2025aims ...
If Roman concrete lasted so long through the millennia, we finally know why: during the excavations of a Roman construction site that had remained intact since 79 AD and recently discovered in Pompeii, the use of “hot mixing“, a technique that gave the material self-repairing and resistance properties. Admir Masic, professor of civil and environmental engineering at the Massachusetts Institute ...
Credit: Lina Peak TO Zermatton the slopes of the Matterhorn, the skyscraper highest in all of Switzerland: with its 260 meters of height – for a total of 65 floors and 550 residential unitsand – Lina Peak aims to become a vertical village capable of hosting residents and tourists in the heart of Alpsoffering an almost direct connection to the ...
It’s official: Italian cuisine is the intangible cultural heritage of humanity, that is UNESCO heritage. The reason is easily stated by the organization’s Committee, which decided on the recognition this morning, 10 December 2025, in New Delhi (India): Italian cuisine promotes social inclusion, promoting well-being and offering a channel for lifelong intergenerational learning, strengthening bonds, encouraging sharing and promoting a ...