The Cosmic Calendar it is one instrument created in the 1970s by the astrophysicist and popularizer Carl Sagan, and revisited by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson in the documentary Cosmos – A spacetime OdysseyFor orient oneself in the vast times of the universe. Without going into complex astronomical calculations and formulas, today we know that from the Big Bang to today ...
In the last season of Stranger Things an interesting thing happens: the series stops, at least in part, to play only with the fantasy and tries to put order in his own mythology. The Upside down it is no longer just a dark parallel dimension as we imagined in the first seasons, but something more precise, more structured. And this ...
The traditions linked to New Year’s Eve et al January 1st they are many and diversified based on local customs. There are differences both in the various regions of Italy and around the world. Some of the most famous – such as wearing the color red, eating certain foods because they are considered auspicious, kissing under the mistletoe and paying ...
There is a debate, especially among enthusiasts, according to which the white chocolate it wouldn’t be “real chocolate”. The reason would lie in its composition, very different from that of dark and milk chocolate. The latter in fact contain the whole cocoa massincluding cocoa solids, which give the product its dark color el’bitter characteristic. These components include polyphenols, alkaloids such ...
The Macugnaga ski lift, in Piedmont. There was a accident to the cable car MacugnanaIn the Verbano-Cusio-Ossolain Piedmont, with 2 people slightly injured and approx 100 skiers stranded upstream: according to initial reconstructions, the accident could be attributed to a maneuvering error, with the north cabin arriving at the arrival station at a speed that was too high to slow ...
At the Campi Flegrei 48 earthquakes in the week between 22nd and 28th December. Seismic activity ai Phlegraean Fields decreasing again: according to the latest weekly bulletin of the INGV Vesuvian Observatory, in the week from 22 to 28 December 2025 they were only recorded 48 earthquakes of maximum magnitude 2.0, a slight decrease compared to the 76 earthquakes last ...
Everything is fine New Year’sbetween fireworks and greetings, steaming dishes of lentils with cotechino or zampone. It’s not just a question of taste: it’s a small ritual that promises money and prosperity throughout the year. The round and flat shape of lentils is reminiscent of ancient coins and popular belief has it that the more you eat them, the more ...
Credit: Amazon. If you were among those who couldn’t wait to have their latest order delivered on Amazon with a drone, we have some bad news to give you: the project Amazon Prime Air in Italy suffered a sudden and unexpected event setback. THE’Enac (National Civil Aviation Authority) has in fact received an official communication from Amazon management which establishes ...
Cover windows with bubble wrap to improve the heating of the house: this is the “home trick” that promises to have warmer homes in winter and avoid heat loss in a simple, fast way and with minimal expense, with possible savings on your bill. But does it really work? As always in these cases, the answer depends on many contextual ...
In blue the irruption of cold arctic air arriving in Italy. Credit: ECMWF 2025 will end on a high note Freddo and of frost throughout Italy: the cause of this general drop in temperatures can be attributed to airruption of cold air coming from the Arcticwhich will also involve our country. This cold front – which will replace the high ...