The Advent period – a word that means “coming” – is the period of waiting for Christmas, but in recent years it is no longer just religious celebrations that tell the story: there are also Advent calendars, now a rapidly growing market, a true cultural and social phenomenon. The first Advent calendar it was invented in 1902 by Gerhard Lang, ...
There tomato puree it is the heart of many Italian recipes, yet a pinch of it is enough acidity moreover to put even the most passionate cook into crisis. The taste of tomato and puree is a delicate balance between sugars and acids present within it: the natural presence of acids, such as malic and citric acid, and the state ...
The fire at the Wang Fuk Court residential complex in Hong Kong. Credit: @gabbar0099, via The images of thefire which devastated the skyscrapers in the residential complex of Wang Fuk Courtin the Tai Po district of Hong Kong (China), have traveled around the world. The firefighters managed to put out the flames 48 hours after the fire broke out: but ...
Amateur photo of 3I/ATLAS taken with a Celestron EdgeHD 800 telescope on November 16. Credit: Satoru Murata, Wikimedia Commons 2025 ends with a series of astronomical events not to be missed. It starts on December 5, 2025 with the third of three consecutive “supermoons”, renamed “cold supermoon”. It will be the 7.9% larger and the 15% brighter of a normal ...
Generated with AI The circuit of Lusailin Qatar, is a “young” track as far as Formula 1 is concerned. Inaugurated in 2004 to host the MotoGP races under the name of “Marlboro Grand Prix of Qatar”only entered the F1 calendar in 2021when it took the place of the Australian Grand Prix which was not held that year due to the ...
Have you ever wondered what the probability of being hit by a meteorite? According to a study conducted by Professor Stephen A. Nelson of Tulane University of Louisianawe talk about 1 chance out of 1,600,000an event about 106 times rarer than being struck by lightning. Yet, for Ann Elizabeth Hodgesthis probability has come true! This story begins at 6.46pm November ...
They have been found traces of the eruption of Vesuvius which in 79 AD destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum on the seabed of the Tyrrhenian Seaoff the coast of Calabria a hundreds of kilometers from the volcano and beyond 600 m below sea level. This was revealed by the studies carried out by the University of Palermo in collaboration with the ...
Image generated with AI. The submerged cave system Ox Bel Haa Quintana Roo, in Mexico, it is the longest in the world: with itsthe 524.108 km of extension, this labyrinth of (mainly fresh) water is even larger than previously thought until last year. Being a system of submerged caves, the Ox Bel Ha – which in the Mayan language means ...
Every time we ask how old a cat is, we are actually asking a double question: on the one hand we want to know the chronological ageon the other hand we want to understand “who” we have in front of us, that is, why there are eleven-year-old cats who jump like acrobats, and nine-year-olds who start to slow down. Veterinary ...
Credit: ESA/ATG medialab Space activities are not just observing space, but also observe the Earth from space. Terrestrial monitoring has a wide range of applications ranging from environmental and climate issues to geopolitical and military ones. On the occasion of the 2025 Ministerial Council of the European space agency we had the opportunity to talk about it with Simonetta Cheliresponsible ...