Spectacular eruption of the Shiveluch volcano in Russia: the column of smoke. Credit: Камчатский филиал ФИЦ ЕГС РАН The volcano Shiveluchin the Russian peninsula of Kamchatkakicked off a new and impressive eruptive phase. Images that are starting to circulate online show a high column of smoke which – according to initial estimates – seems to have reached i Approximately 9100 ...
Generated with AI A penguin who walks alone towards the interior of Antarctica, far from the sea and the colony, has in recent days become the protagonist of a surprising story, so much so that he has been renamed “nihilist penguin”as if he had consciously chosen isolation and the end. This penguin filmed in 2007 in a documentary by Werner ...
The Beechcraft 1900 plane crashed in Colombia. Credit: Reuters There was a plane crash in the north of Colombia: a plane Beechcraft 1900 (a twin-engine turboprop) of the Colombian state company Satena crashed while operating a regional route. Unfortunately, all 15 people on board the flight NSE 8849 – 13 passengers and 2 crew members – lost their lives: among ...
THE Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games will take place from Friday 6 to Sunday 22 February 2026. But what exactly are they? It is the most important global multi-sport event dedicated to the disciplines that take place on ice or snow. Established in 1924, they are held every four years, staggered from the summer games. The first edition was a ...
The sexual drive in men would reach its peak on average around 40 years old (the so-called mid-life peak), although testosterone levels in males begin to decline after age 30. This is the result of a massive study conducted on over 67,000 adults from the Estonian Biobank. To explain what seems like a “biological paradox,” researchers have proposed some mechanisms ...
A team of Australian researchers may have confirmed that i stone blocks of Stonehenge were transported by human beingswho would move them from their places of origin in Wales and Scotland toSouthern England. The large distances – even hundreds of kilometers – that separate the Neolithic boulders from the places where the rocks from which they come were formed had ...
The human brain it is one of the most efficient information processing systems ever observed, it just consumes 20 watts to power 86 billion neuronsmanaging cognitive tasks of very high complexity.With a mass of approximately 1.3–1.4 kg, equal to just over 2% of body weight, the human brain consumes approximately 20% of the body’s basal metabolism. In terms of power, ...
Representative image of the Doomsday Clock, generated with AI. «85 seconds until midnight»: this is the time that the hands of the Doomsday Clock are marking 2026, but what does it mean? The Doomsday Clock it is a symbol, a reminder, a metaphor that reminds the public how close we are to destroying our world with technologies of our own ...
On the evening of Remembrance Day 2026 and on 28 January, Rai 1 pays homage to the victims of the Holocaust with fiction Morbo K, whoever saves a life, saves the whole world by Francesco Patierno. Although there are fictionalized elements within it, the series tells the true story of the doctor Giovanni Borromeohead physician at the Fatebenefratelli hospital who ...
Every year, it’s always the same story: in common perception, January it seems to never end. Yet it has 31 days, just like other months of the year… so how is it possible that many people perceive it as a month “infinite”? The main reason is the fact that January is mostly a month of work, which comes right after ...