In Southern Italy one building in two is illegal: this is what Cresme (Centre for economic, sociological and market research in construction) and the Istat 2024 Bes (fair and sustainable well-being) report say. If in the North illegal dwellings are 4.3% of the total and in the Center they rise to 14.7%, the figure skyrockets in the South, reaching 40.2%. ...
Semeru volcano during eruption in East Java province, Indonesia. Credit: Reuters The Mount Semeruan active volcano on the Indonesian island of Javaerupted on November 19, 2025, causing a massive evacuation and triggering the highest level of alert. The volcano, in intense activity since November 13th with over 10 eruptions, with this violent eruption emitted a column of ash gray in ...
Sahara sand over Sardinia in a false-color image captured by the European satellite Copernicus Sentinel–3. Credit: ESA/Copernicus A large cloud of sand from the Sahara it overlooks Sardinia and Corsica in this image taken by the European earth monitoring satellite Sentinel-3 of the network Copernicus a few days ago, November 14th. This satellite image is in false colors because it ...
In some videos that have recently appeared on the web, a spectacular “Volnado”, as it was named by the media, developed over theOcean Pacific and produced by the recent eruption of the Kilauea volcanoin Hawaii, last November 9, 2025. It’s a small one tornado – that is, a whirlwind – which can rarely form during a volcanic eruption due to ...
It was discovered in China the largest gold deposit which has been found in the country since 1949 and one of the largest in the world. It’s that of Dadonggouin the province of Liaoning, in Northeast Chinaand is estimated to contain 1444 tons of gold, for an economic value of approximately 192 billion euros. Even if in this deposit the ...
The HiRISE instrument aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this image of 3I/ATLAS on October 2, 2025, 30 million km from the object. Credits: NASA/JPL–Caltech/University of Arizona. NASA presented new images of the comet 3I/ATLASthe third interstellar object discovered in our Solar System, in a press conference broadcast live on YouTube. The images are the result of an unprecedented observational ...
Many describe Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow as a long agony made up of frosthunger and endless marches. But it was enough to listen to the witnesses of the time to understand that, among those exhausted ranks, there was something more subtle than the cold: fevers that appeared in waves, violent diarrhea, bodies that suddenly gave way. A study just published ...
Cover of a Windows 1.0 brochure released in January 1986. Public domain image. Credit: Michael Holley/Microsoft. The November 20, 1985 the IT giant Microsoft released Windows 1.0the first operating system in the Windows series, which has now arrived in Windows 11. This operating system promised to change the relationship with personal computers forever thanks to a simple to use graphical ...
There interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS ended up at the center of a real media case on its alleged artificial origin, hypothesized and suggested several times by the astrophysicist Avi Loeb from Harvard University since its discovery in July. This hypothesis derives from numerous anomalies presented by this unusual interstellar object, the third that we observe transiting our Solar System. Unfortunately, though ...
Credit: Google Google has officially released Gemini 3an update that marks a new chapter in the competition for AI supremacy, positioned as a direct response to the recent launches of OpenAI and Anthropic. We are talking about the most sophisticated model ever created by the Mountain View laboratories, designed not only to chat in text form with the user but ...