The Cocos Islands, in the Indian Ocean, the subject of the study. Credit: NASA Many islands located in the middle of the ocean they contain rocky materials that appear to come from the continents from which they are very far away. The reason for this characteristic has long remained a mystery: now a team of researchers from the University of ...
There Daintree Forestin Queensland in north-eastern Australia, is often referred to as the oldest rainforest in the worldwith an estimated age between 130 and 180 million years. Its history is lost in time: some species that inhabit it date back to supercontinent Gondwanaexisted hundreds of millions of years ago. Very rare plants, thousand-year-old ferns and primitive flowers live here, together ...
“123456” continues to reign supreme as the most widespread password in the world. A negative record that it has held for 6 years now, on a ranking that has been drawn up by NordPass for 7 years with the independent consultancy of NordStellar. The sequence of the first 6 digits was also the most used in Italy last year, ousted ...
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 ...