Credit: nobelprize.org Mary E. BRUNKOW, Fred Ramsdell And Shimon Sakaguchi are the winners of the Nobel Prize for Medicine 2025 thanks to their discoveries on Peripheral immune tolerancethe mechanism that prevents the immune system from damaging our own body by fighting only external pathogens. The discoveries of the three scientists refer to 1995, 2001 and 2003 studies in which they ...
Sometimes you have happened to feel the expression “Remove the chestnuts from the fire“To refer to a situation or a person, it is a way of saying that it has nothing to do with chestnuts and autumn, but it serves to indicate who draws a personal advantage from a situation by running to others any risks in solving it. The ...
Full moon photographed by Caserta. Credits: Luca Tortorelli The first “Superluna” of 2025, called “Superluna del Cacciatore”, will illuminate the sky on Tuesday 7 October 2025 to 5:48: the full moon will appear about the 7% larger and 13% brighter Compared to a typical full moon, because of its proximity to the earth. In the case of the “Superluna del ...
A strong earthquake of magnitude 4.4 was recorded at 12:13 off Pesaro-Urbino: as reported by the Ingv, the epicenter was located at sea, off the coast between Fano And Senigalliaat a depth of 8 km. The earthquake was located 32 km from Fano and 65 km from Rimini. The earthquake was felt distinctly by the whole population of the Marche ...
In Emilia -Romagna, over 30 firefighters were carried out due to the damage caused by bad weather. Credit: Fire Brigade Bad weather has struck the againEmilia-Romagna And the whole Adriatic front. The cause is not the arrival of the Storm Amy – who hit northern Europe – but of a depression produced by a Atlantic bag associated with the storm. ...
The October 4th A new seismic swarm has started Campi Flegrei with epicenter in the Pozzuoli area and that, in less than 12 hours, originated 13 SISMI with maximum magnitude of 3.3. The latter shock, the most intense, was recorded at 00:50 of 5 October with a hypocenter to just 2 km deep. Overall, the various earthquakes have been felt ...
There HS2 It represents an important infrastructure project, currently under construction in the United Kingdom. Consists of one high -speed railway networkable to make the transport of goods, people and resources faster and more functional. Will connect London with the main cities of the North, including Birmingham. It will be the second line of this type in the United Kingdom, ...
There Kaprekar constant, 6174so called in honor of the Indian mathematician Dattatreya Ramachandra Kaprekar who discovered it, is a mysterious number that always comes back on itself. If we order its figures from the largest to the smallest, and then from the smallest to the largest, we get the numbers 7641 and 1476 which, subtracted from each other, give 6174 ...
It was 1907 and Francis Galton – a British statistical, biologist and anthropologist – was in one cattle fair Where a competition was underway: estimate the weight of an ox. Galton noticed that the average estimate made by hundreds of people was incredibly close to real weight of the animal. Not only that: the collective error was much lower than ...
The largest landfill of all time, Fresh Kills Landfill, in business. Credit: Chester Higgins, Jr., via Wikimedia Commons The mega landfill Fresh Kills Landfill It was the largest ever built in the world (while the largest for electronic waste is the Acra landfill in Ghana): remained operational for over half a century between 1948 and 2001, has stored huge quantities ...