The torchlight protest organized in Rome after the death of the worker Octay Stroici. Credit: Cisl Roma Capitale, via «Italy is a democratic republic founded on work»: yet, even today too many workers die while carrying out their duties. The case of Octay Stroici – the 66-year-old worker who died in Rome after being stuck for 11 hours under the ...
Drilling in Antarctica. Credit: Julia Marks Peterson, COLDEX A team of US researchers has extracted in East Antarcticain the Allan Hills regionthe oldest ice core ever found on Earth. Has well 6 million years and the tiny air bubbles that he trapped during the transformation from snow to ice reveal the composition that had the atmosphere during the called era ...
The map of the national emergency planning zones in the Phlegraean area. Credit: Civil Protection To the Phlegraean Fields the new alert scheme has officially come into force, with the Civil Protection department confirming the adoption of the phase 2 of the yellow alert (attention level) for volcanic risk. Even in the presence of the variation of some parameters, therefore, ...
A UPS cargo planethe US international transport and shipping company, crashed on the afternoon of Tuesday 4 November shortly after taking off from the airport of Louisvillein Kentucky. The accident caused the death of at least 7 people (3 crew members and 4 people on the ground) and the injury of 11 others, but the numbers could increase during the ...
A postcard of Rome depicting the Torre dei Conti. Credit: Italian Touring Club There Tower of the Counts returned to the center of attention after the building partially collapsed during some restoration and static consolidation works, causing the death of a 66-year-old worker, Octay Stroici. The causes of the accident, which occurred on November 3 with a first collapse around ...
Let’s be honest: finding yourself in your hands a sheet of bubble wrap and resisting the temptation to burst a few bubbles is a truly difficult task. And, once started, it is impossible to stop: one bubble leads to another until the sheet is completely flattened. A premise must be made: no scientific study still investigated why bursting bubble wrap ...
In the’Riddle of the boxes and ballsthe situation is this: there are three boxes, one containing only white balls, one containing only black balls, while the third is mixed, containing both colors (in the video attached to the article, the balls are blue and green, but it can be done with any color). Each box has a label indicating the ...
Slight decrease in seismic activity at Campi Flegrei in the last week of monitoring (27 October – 2 November 2025). The INGV Vesuvian Observatory recorded 149 earthquakes (compared to 178 the previous week), with a maximum magnitude of 2.1lower than last week’s 2.8. However, the bradyseism: the ground lifting speed is confirmed at the preliminary average value of approximately 20 ...
A comparison of the Torre dei Conti before the collapse of November 3rd and after. Credit: Matteo Brandi, via There Tower of the Counts of Rome it partially collapsed while recovery and restoration works were taking place on the building. The causes of collapse of the structure of the Imperial Fora – during which a 66-year-old worker remained stuck in ...
The August 16, 2013 will remain in the annals of the Internet as the day Google, for five minutesdisappeared almost completely from the Internet. Around 4:52 in the afternoon, Pacific time, all the main services of the Mountain View giant, from Google Search to Gmail, from YouTube to Google Drive, became temporarily unreachable. It was not a simple slowdown: according ...