At the Campi Flegrei 36 earthquakes recorded by the INGV. To the Phlegraean Fields there seismicity stay low for the third consecutive week: the latest weekly bulletin of the INGV Vesuvian Observatory (relating to the period from 26 January to 1 February 2026) recorded 36 earthquake tremors of maximum magnitude 1.4 (a slight increase compared to the 24 earthquakes of ...
How to count to 60 with your hands? Just count on phalanges instead of on the fingers with a method that in the simple version allows us to count up to 60, but in the more complicated version up to 144. This counting method consists of counting the units on the phalanges of a hand and the dozens with your ...
A detail that remained hidden under a famous painting for almost five hundred years has come to light, revealing a forgotten but precious story. It is the Guardian that reveals that, using infrared technology, a group of scholars has found another drawing under the surface layers of a famous sixteenth-century English painting, a triangular shape, which tells us what some ...
The oil field Of Kashagan Fields (Kazakhstan) represents to date one of the most significant discoveries of the last half century in the oil sector. With his 38 billion barrels of crude oil”in place” (present on site) is among the largest offshore fields – on the seabed of territorial or international waters – discovered in recent decades. To extract it, ...
Moltbook represents an unprecedented case study in the evolution of digital platforms: it is a social network designed exclusively for interaction between AI agentswhere humans are allowed access only as silent observers. Launched in the wake of the open source software Moltbot, this platform emulates the structure of news aggregators such as Redditallowing bots (i.e. automated programs created by users) ...
The SLS rocket during the wet dress rehearsal procedure of the Artemis II mission. Credit: NASA There Artemis II mission – which will bring man back around the Moon for the first time in 54 years – has been officially postponed: this was confirmed by the NASA administrator, Jared Isaacmanwho through a post on X communicated the decision by the ...
Some of you will have heard of at least once wax in the skiing sector and with the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics approaching, we could hear about it even more. Wax is a substance that is applied under skis for change the way your skis glide on snow. At a chemical level, we are talking about a set of molecules ...
The cabin of the Cermis cable car, hit by a US military plane on 3 February 1998. Via Wikimediacommons THE’Cermis cable car accident, a disaster that occurred 28 years ago in Val di Fiemme (Trentino-Alto Adige) but still alive in the memory of Italian society, was caused by a US military plane that collided with a ski lift on Alpe ...
While the Niscemi landslide continues, with new failures and the recent collapse of a three-storey building, in Italy attention has been rekindled on the fragility of the territory compared to landslide phenomena. The natural tendency of soils to slide towards new conditions of equilibrium makes it essential to identify tools and strategies capable of re-establishing the safety, especially in high ...
An image of the city of Pripyat today, after being abandoned. When we hear about Chernobyl the first images that come to mind are those of the disaster and of an uninhabited, gray and dangerous area. But it hasn’t always been like this: before 26 April 1986 the town of Pripyatlocated about 3 km from the power plant’s No. 4 ...