The tragic accident in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, brings our attention back to a topic of great importance: the fire safety. In particular, in this article, we are going to see how engineering can be useful for forensic analysis – that is, how engineering helps investigators to reconstruct what happened and determine any responsibilities. What is forensic engineering for: the autopsy of ...
The conference by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. Credit: Palazzo Chigi In the first press conference of 2026, the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni spoke about banning the use of sparkling candles inside clubs and discos, due toCrans-Montana fire. In her speech, the Prime Minister underlined the need to: Think about the possibility of banning indoors the use of sparkles on bottles ...
This image shows the location of the Cloud–9 object, 14 million light-years from Earth. The magenta cloud represents radio emission from the object that has been superimposed on an optical image from Hubble. The dotted circle shows the region where the radio emission is most intense. Credits: NASA, ESA, VLA, Gagandeep Anand (STScI), Alejandro Benitez–Llambay (University of Milan–Bicocca); Image Processing: ...
The yawn it is a universal and ancient behavior, but its meaning has long been misunderstood. The most common explanations, such as the idea that it serves to oxygenate or “wake up” the brain, are not supported by the data. The evidence indicates instead that yawning has above all one social and communicative functionlinked to empathy and the synchronization of ...
Credit: ODIN. In the last few hours there has been a lot of talk about hypersonic missiles Oreshnik related to the war between Russia and Ukraine: the Russian government confirmed a few days ago that it had also put them into operation in Belarus and last night ago Ukraine was hit by this weapon. But what are its characteristics from ...
The possible starting point of the Crans–Montana fire. Credit: Tony Truant, via 140 secondsjust under two and a half minutes, is the time in which the conditions of the bar The Constellations of Crans-Montana have become incompatible with the survival of the people within them after the outbreak of thefire that caused 40 victims and 119 injuries on New Year’s ...
Pituffik Space Base, the US military base in Greenland. Credit: Kalshi, via There Greenland returned to the center of public attention after the President of the United States Donald Trump he reiterated his intention to annex this territory – now under the control of Denmark – to the USA, considered “indispensable for American national security”. But while on the one ...
OpenAIthe company that develops ChatGPTis hiring a “Head of Preparedness” (“Preparation Manager”), a figure in charge of anticipate and reduce risks related to the impact of OpenAI’s artificial intelligence on mental health of users. As a growing number of studies and empirical evidence show, in fact, prolonged and “immersive” interactions with ChatGPT can contribute to the onset of psychotic episodes. ...
The tragedy that recently occurred in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, during a public event, put the pyrotechnic fountainsalso called pyrotechnic candles or luminous fountains. They are columns of sparks, which last a few seconds, they make no noise, they don’t explode and they don’t scare. This is why we consider them harmless, little more than bright decorations used on birthday cakes or ...
Image generated with AI. It is increasingly complicated to be able to have the SPID for free (as demonstrated by the recent PosteID affair). And, as expected, more and more Italians are interested in have a free digital identity with the CIE as an alternative to the SPID. The CIE, in fact, being equipped with a radio frequency microprocessor which ...