A glacier located in Antarctica, the Hektoria glacierunderwent the fastest collection ever recorded in modern history: retreated 25km between 2022 and 2023of which 8 km in just two months, in which he lost as much as half of its mass. To discover this enormous loss, thanks to the analysis of satellite imageswere the researchers of Cooperative Institute for Research in ...
Today we celebrate our birthday with cake because, for thousands of years, blowing out candles has been a gesture that combines ritual and symbol: by the ancient Greekswho offered honey cakes to Artemis, to the Germans in Medieval Germany with the first ones Kinderfestthe cake has become the symbol par excellence of the celebration. However, if we go back a ...
Autumn is a crucial season for bearsduring which they accumulate the resources necessary to survive the winter. The hibernation of bears, which usually lasts from November to March, is not a real hibernation, but more of a period of generalized torpor and reduced activity, during which the animal slowly consumes the resources stored in the fall in its own body ...
A G3 class geomagnetic storm is on the way. A category G3 geomagnetic storm (and considered “strong,” on a scale ranging from G1 to G5) is expected on Earth sometime today Friday 7 November and tomorrow Saturday 8 November 2025. It was caused by two great people coronal mass ejections (CME), produced by the Sun last November 5th and generated ...
There State Police has issued a warning about the return of a scam that exploits the WhatsApp six-digit verification code. If you receive a message like «Hi, I sent you a code by mistake, could you send it back to me?», don’t answer. That code is in fact the key that would allow the cyber criminals who contacted you to ...
The Museum of Modern Artoften shortened to MoMAis located in New York in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood, on 53rd Street and is a world reference point for modern art. It opened on November 7, 1929, ninety-six years ago. The MoMa hosts works by famous artists such as Van Gogh, Pollock, Picasso and was conceived and designed with a very specific ...
Artemisia Gentileschi, Self-Portrait as an Allegory of Painting, 1638–39. Royal Collection Trust In recent years, many forgotten female artists have been rediscovered, a work that arises from the desire to rebalance the narrative of art which has been (and often still is) historically unbalanced in favor of men. Among these, it is increasingly famous and appreciated the great painter Artemisia ...
The November 4th at 5.13pm (11.13 pm Italian time) a McDonnell Douglas MD-11 cargo plane crashed at the International Airport of Louisville, in Kentucky (USA), during take-off. The collision with an industrial area south of the airport hub caused a giant fireball and several explosions which in turn caused at least 12 victims. According to initial reconstructions, the left engine ...
The partial collapse of the Torre dei Conti in Rome. Credit: Fire Brigade After the partial collapse of the Torre dei Conti in Rome – which caused the death of a 66-year-old worker, Octay Stroici, who was buried for 11 hours under the rubble – the future of this monument is still uncertain. In fact, restoration and redevelopment works were ...
It can happen, ed It’s more common than it seems: maybe we are still inexperienced, or we are simply lost in thought while we are at the petrol station, and we happen to make a mistake, putting diesel in our petrol car, or vice versa. Inserting the wrong fuel can cause serious damage to the engine, but the severity depends ...