An earthquake of magnitude 3.6 it hit yesterday at 00:28 there North-eastern Sicily, with epicenter 2 km from Militello Rosemary, in the province of Messina, as confirmed by INGV. The earthquake was distinctly felt throughout the area and recorded a depth of just 8km. The first earthquake was followed by 3 others with the same epicenter, respectively of magnitude 2.6, ...
The train accident that occurred in Gelida, Catalonia (Spain). Credit: Pol Trilles, via Just 2 days after the tragedy in Andalusia, in Spain there was a new train accident: a regional Catalan Rodalies train derailed near Frosty (Barcelona), after colliding with a retaining wall of the AP-7 highway, collapsed on the tracks probably due to heavy rain. The accident occurred ...
There’s been a lot of talk these days about the new European regulation on packaging. Unfortunately there has been a lot of confusion. In fact, some newspapers have announced (in a somewhat alarmist tone) that “from this summer” or “from August 2026” we will no longer see ketchup or mayonnaise sachets. Let’s immediately dot the i’s: this is not the ...
On the morning of January 28, 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger it disintegrated 73 seconds after liftoff from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. All seven crew members died. The disaster was caused by a design error of the rockets used in the first launch phase and the unusual cold, which did not allow the rubber seals to expand correctly ...
In Andalusia, in Spain, two trains derailed causing 41 victims and beyond 150 injured – even if the toll could worsen further in the coming hours. The accident occurred around 7.45pm on Sunday 18 January, at the height of Adamuznear Cordova: a first train of the company was involved in the disaster Iryodirect from Malaga to Madrid, and a second ...
At the Campi Flegrei 44 earthquakes recorded from 12 to 18 January 2026. To the Phlegraean Fields the week just passed was characterized by relative seismic tranquility: according to the latest bulletin of the INGV Vesuvian Observatory, between 12 and 18 January 44 earthquake shocks Of maximum magnitude 2.5 (against the 71 earthquakes of the previous week. Of these, however, ...
Storm surge in Sicily. Credit: Fire Brigade The extreme bad weather which is affecting Sicily, Calabria and Sardinia due to the “Cyclone Harry” has unfortunately reached dramatic proportions: thered alert of Civil Protection has been extended to the entire eastern Sardinia, eastern Sicily and southern Calabria. Strong winds with gusts up to 120 km/htorrential rains which recorded accumulations of over ...
One of the fake images circulating about the snowstorm in Kamchatka, via X. In the last few days, some videos are going viral in which some are seen Kamchatka apartment buildingsin Russia, totally covered in snow: we’re talking about high snowdrifts tens of meters on which people ski, walk or sled. But are these real images or generated with AI? ...
NASA’s SLS rocket on Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39B ahead of the launch of Artemis II. Credit: NASA The Space Launch System (SLS)the rocket of 98 meters of NASA containing the capsule Orionreached the launch pad 39B Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral ahead of the mission’s upcoming launch Artemis II which will bring man back to the Moon ...
Painful swellings that appear suddenly (1). Maybe together with nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain (2)… It comes naturally to ask: is it an allergy attack? It’s not said. It could be hereditary angioedema, a rare disease still the subject of studies and research, which is often diagnosed 10 years late (3). The cause of this pathology is a genetic mutation (4) ...