One of the active fires in Europe imaged by Sentinel–2 satellites. Credit: European Union, Copernicus Sentinel–2 imagery According to the EFFIS findings, the monitoring system of the European Copernicus program, among 1 January and 19 August 2026 the flames have devoured 585,531 hectares of territoryand well 78,522 of these they only went up in smoke in last seven days. The ...
Image created with AI for the sole purpose of artistic representation. It was discovered fastest star never observed in our galaxy, the Milky Way: is called S301darts to 25,000 km/s (to be clear, it is about 100,000 times faster than an airliner) and its discovery, published in Nature, was obtained using data from the Very Large Telescope Interferometer of ESO, ...
The fake news, that is, fake news, is considered one of the global threats most dangerous according to the polls of Global Risks Report 2025 of the World Economic Forum. Indeed, misinformation has always existed. In fact, they are different mechanisms of ours brain which lead us to indulge in fake news. The era of social media, however, has made ...
An image of the Petermann Glacier, Greenland. Credit: Adam Garbo A’ice island bigger than San Marino she broke away from Petermann Glacierin Greenland, becoming the most great detachment event of icebergs in the Arctic since 2020. Detected by satellites thanks to a team from the University of Ottawa, the new tabular iceberg extends over a surface area of 76.4 km², ...
When we are in queue at the supermarket generally we tend to choose the shortest queue, however, it often seems to us that the other queues, the longer ones, proceed faster. But is it really like that? Not always, but it is no coincidence that we have this feeling so often: it has in fact been demonstrated that, having to ...
A study conducted by researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and presented at the USENIX Security 2026 conference has revealed a fact that is in some ways disturbing. According to the study, even the old expired cards can potentially be reused to perform fraudulent payments. It is no coincidence that researchers have defined them “zombie” credit cards: even after ...
ChatGPT Ads. Credits: OpenAI. Starting next week, ChatGPT will also show advertisements in Europe. OpenAI announced the extension of ChatGPT Ads in 31 European markets: the 27 countries of the European Union (including Italy obviously) plus Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Switzerland. The debut is scheduled for next week, so the arrival of the adverts in the famous OpenAI chatbot is ...
The nightmare of mosquitoes is now constant given that they frequent our homes for many months and proliferate everywhere, favored by climate change and resistence that are developing against insecticides, making them less effective. The best strategy to implement is the combination of multiple methods which, as a whole, manage to mitigate the proliferation of these annoying insects, controlling them ...
Porto Cesareo (LE): damage due to a Downburst. Images from Raffaele Minosa’s video. A violent one storm it hit yesterday Porto Cesareoin Puglia, causing flooding, the sudden collapse of the lights set up for the patronal festival, extensive damage to bathing establishments and numerous trees uprooted. The episode of Tuesday 18 August generated moments of great fear among residents and ...
The wreck of the LS6, at 96 metres, preserved in sailing condition. Credit: Naval History After about 13 years of researcha group of Greek underwater explorers spotted in Ionian Sea the wreck of theLS 6a fast boat from Kriegsmarine (Nazi Germany’s navy) sunk in 1943during the Second World War. The discovery of the light assault boat occurred at approximately 96 ...