The entrance to Caffè Florian – Credits: Kent Wang from Barcelona, Spain, CC BY–SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons The oldest historic café still active in Italy and among the oldest in the world, was inaugurated on 29 December 1720 in St. Mark’s Square to Venicewith the name of “To Triumphant Venice“, but was immediately called “Florian“, from the name of ...
The distribution of major seismic events between 1999 and 2024 in southern Italy. Credit: INGV A new study by INGV (National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology), published on the “ISI – Italian Seismic Engineering” portal, shows how seismicity has changed over time in southern Italy. Before 1908, the year of the Messina earthquake, they occurred few earthquakes but very strong ...
Credit: Google. Google decided to bring in Italy some of the most anticipated features of Geminihis AI-based assistant. This is a significant update that points in a very specific direction: making Gemini an increasingly personalized assistant, capable of remembering who we are, what we like and how we communicate, instead of responding the same way to everyone. Among the most ...
2026 holds a small astronomical gift for us: in May we will have two full moons in the same monththe first the May 1st and the second the May 31stwhich will also be a so-called “micromoon”, that is, it will appear slightly smaller and less bright than usual in the sky. In general, the full moon in a month has ...
According to the latest Istat data, approximately 25% of Italians ha abandoned sport over the course of one’s life. And drop-out often occurs already during adolescence: between young people aged 10-24 years, over 18% stop playing sports, with an earlier trend among girls. The main reasons for abandoning sports are not, in fact, linked to advancing age or health problems, ...
Chengdu subway station, China. We can recognize some cities just by observing the characteristics of the subway that passes through them, be it historic, artistic, extravagant or super technological. The first metro lines were born in Europe and the USA in the second half of the nineteenth century and today they are widespread in all continents of the world, characterizing ...
The caldera of the Yellowstone volcano, in the United States A team of Chinese and US researchers has explained it comprehensively for the first time the origin and feeding of the magmatic system under the Yellowstone volcano calderain Wyoming (United States), one of the most dangerous active volcanoes in the world. The study, published in the journal Scienceshows how what ...
Image generated with AI for demonstration purposes only. It has happened to many of us to find ourselves with one ruined banknotemaybe slightly tornaccidentally ended up in the washing machine or faded after having remained in the wallet for too long: at that point, no shop or trader accepts it anymore and, therefore, it is put aside. But what to ...
The monumental Mayan settlement consists of 80 buildings, spread over 100 hectares. Credit: INAH In the Mexican state of Quintana Rooin the peninsula of Yucatánthe National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) has officially registered a ancient Mayan monumental settlement named El Jefeciño (“the capetto”), with 80 Petén-style buildings distributed over an area of 100 hectares. The discovery is the ...
The thermal expansion of ocean depths (above 2000 metres) could contribute more to global sea level rise than previously believed (0.4 mm/year). This is what emerges from a study recently published on Earth’s Futurewhich analyzes the behavior of the oceans at depths that oceanographic buoys cannot reach. This study could solve a long-standing mystery 2016the year from which scientists are ...