Ecology

The icebreaker Laura Bassi has reached Antarctica: the 41st Italian scientific mission begins

The icebreaker Laura Bassi has reached Antarctica: the 41st Italian scientific mission begins

The icebreaker Laura Bassi. Credit: ENEA There icebreaker Laura Bassithe only Italian capable of operating at the poles, reached the Mario Zucchelli Station in Antarctica to carry out the 41st Italian research expeditionwithin the National Antarctic Research Program (PNRA). The mission, which began in October, will last four months and involves activities that include the transport of extracted ice cores, ...

From "splitting eyes" to "romantasy" and "unplayable": the list of neologisms for 2025 according to Treccani

From “splitting eyes” to “romantasy” and “unplayable”: the list of neologisms for 2025 according to Treccani

There Italian language evolves, in step with technological development and changes in society: that’s why, among the neologisms included in the Book of the Year 2025 of Treccani, most of the selected terms have to do with the most important – or most discussed – facts of these 12 months, from sport to geopolitics, from gossip to the environment. From ...

Fake SMS from CUP are a new phishing attempt: how to recognize the scam and defend yourself

Fake SMS from CUP are a new phishing attempt: how to recognize the scam and defend yourself

Example of a scam SMS pretending to be from the CUP. They have been circulating for at least a month fake SMS messages that pass themselves off as official communications from the CUP (the Single Healthcare Booking Centre) and which, in reality, represent a dangerous attempt at phishing-type scams, which exploits a delicate context such as the healthcare one. The ...

December 19, 2025, how many °C was it today in previous years? Let's compare temperatures

December 19, 2025, how many °C was it today in previous years? Let’s compare temperatures

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 19th scheduled for Milan, Rome, Naples And Palermocompared with those of the same ...

Speed ​​cameras, the national list is online, but problems remain between missing approvals and incomplete data

Speed ​​cameras, the national list is online, but problems remain between missing approvals and incomplete data

For the first time in Italy there is a public and national dataset on speed cameras. The register published on 28 November 2025 was born from the application of the provisions of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport which imposed on local authorities theobligation to communicate and register detection devices of speed on a centralized platform. Until that moment the ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS, when it will reach its minimum distance from Earth and how to observe it from Italy

Comet 3I/ATLAS, when it will reach its minimum distance from Earth and how to observe it from Italy

An image of Comet 3I/ATLAS captured by the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) on Gemini North on Maunakea, Hawaii. Credits: International Gemini Observatory/NoirLab/Nsf/Aura/B. Bolin. There comet 3I/ATLASthe third interstellar object discovered to transit our Solar System, arrives tomorrow 19 December at the fateful moment of closest proximity to Earth: this is a considerable distance (269 ​​million km80% more than the Earth-Sun ...

The largest Christmas trees in the world, what they are and where they are found: the tallest is over 750 meters tall

The largest Christmas trees in the world, what they are and where they are found: the tallest is over 750 meters tall

The tallest Christmas tree in the world, in Gubbio. Precisely in these days, cities around the world are preparing for Christmascovering itself with lights and decorations of every shape, color and size. But nothing really does Christmas like a big and thick tree festively decorated, sparkling in the freezing night under the rapt gaze of passers-by. We have therefore drawn ...

The oldest traces of coexistence between dogs and humans dating back 14,400 years have been discovered in a cave in Liguria

The oldest traces of coexistence between dogs and humans dating back 14,400 years have been discovered in a cave in Liguria

Inside the Basùra Caveoverall Caves of Toirano (Savona), a research group interdisciplinary all Italian (funded by the National Geographic Society) has identified the oldest known traces of coexistence between a human group and a dog during prehistory. The study used as a technique theichnologyor the study of footprints. The sediment in question is already interesting in itself. Through dating to ...