Sicily is still the protagonist of the fire emergency in Italy. Between Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th August the Regional Forestry Corps counted 198 fireswith 20 authorized aerial interventions between Canadair and helicopters, and on September 1st the wave of fire was recorded the first victim: Salvatore Giglia, 26 years old, died at the Civic hospital in Palermo from burns ...
For families, the return from holidays coincides with the need to face expenses related to the new 2026-2027 school year. The cost of textbooks and of all the material needed for school seems to grow from year to yearan increase also confirmed by Federconsumatori, which has monitored the costs of school materials this year too, recording an average increase of ...
The prejudice that wants the blonde woman as silly, light-hearted and not very witty it has no well-founded basis: yet, for about three centuries, it has belonged to popular culture. The idea that a blonde girl or woman is unintelligent comes from a combination of historical and cultural factorssuch as the iconography of angels, Madonnas and symbolic figures with blond ...
The SAWES (S4000 Stratosphere Airborne Wind Energy System) airborne stratospheric wind system, developed in China. Credit: Via X, People’s Daily, China@PDChina The flying wind turbine S4000developed by the Chinese company Sawes Energy Technology in collaboration with Tsinghua University and the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, successfully completed its first flight sequencedemonstrating the ability to produce ...
If we had to think of the most unlikely place to find traces of a giant shark, the Egyptian desert would be among the top places on the list: no sea for hundreds of kilometres, just sand, rocks and heat that reaches 50°C in summer. However, it is right on the plateau of Abu Tartur (about 650 km south-west of ...
A recent study published in Nature Communications, fruit of the joint work of the CNR Nano of Modena, the University of L’Aquila, Princeton University and the Max Planck Institute, has proposed a new model to finally clarify the mechanism by which plants they transform light (luminous energy) into chemical energy during the photosynthesis. For years, this particular stage of the ...
Seeing a fly eagle over a territory marked by war produces a very strong contrast: children’s play in a territory of death and destruction. In recent years the kite has entered the symbolic imagination of Palestinian resistance: from a simple toy, constructed in a simple way even with rudimentary materials, to Gaza has become a symbol linked tochildhoodto freedom and ...
An image of the Sinabung volcano eruption in Indonesia. Credit: ESDM The Sinabung volcanolocated in the north of the island of Sumatra, Indonesia, has erupted for the first time after 5 years, with a tall column of ash and smoke 3,500 meters above the summit. The beginning of the new volcanic activity was recorded yesterday, August 31st, around 10.17am (local ...
A flash flood hit the Rasuwa districton the border between Northern Nepal and Tibet: according to reconstructions, the flood wave of August 26th reached a speed of approximately 180 km/has if it were a huge “bucket of mud”. The death toll, unfortunately, is dramatic: we are talking about more 1,000 dead and almost 4,000 missingincluding 3 Italian citizens, but the ...
The war in Iran is weighing on Italy with an energy bill estimated at almost 12 billion eurosand with direct increases in bills and fuel caused by the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. It is the estimate of CNANational Confederation of Crafts and Small and Medium Enterprises: between 1 March and 31 August Italian families and businesses spent 11.8 ...