Ecology

China will build the world's largest particle accelerator: what will the CEPC be used for?

China will build the world’s largest particle accelerator: what will the CEPC be used for?

The CEPC (Circular Electron Positron Collider) is the future particle accelerator largest in the world than the China he decided to build to explore the deepest secrets of the universe. This is a long underground tunnel 100kmas the Rome ring road, designed to collide subatomic particles at speeds close to that of light and study the Higgs boson. The project ...

The third fastest asteroid in the Solar System discovered: what we know about 2025 SC79

The third fastest asteroid in the Solar System discovered: what we know about 2025 SC79

Image generated with AI. The astronomer Scott Shepard discovered an asteroid that was renamed 2025 SC79approximately 700 meterswhich orbits the Sun in just 127.5 daysplacing it third in the list of the fastest known asteroids in the Solar System (despite many reporting that it is the second fastest). The only fastest asteroids we know of are 2025 GN1 (114.7 days) ...

Bad weather in the Centre-North and high temperatures arriving in the South: because Italy is often divided in half due to the weather

Bad weather in the Centre-North and high temperatures arriving in the South: because Italy is often divided in half due to the weather

The rainfall map over Italy for today, October 23rd. Rainfall due to Storm Benjamin is clearly visible in France and the United Kingdom. Credit: ECMWF Italy is once again split in half from a meteorological point of view: if the Centre-North is experiencing the indirect effects of storm Benjaminwhich is especially striking these days France And United Kingdom with winds ...

Summer time and solar time, advantages and disadvantages of the time change

Summer time and solar time, advantages and disadvantages of the time change

In the night between Saturday 25 October and Sunday October 26, 2025 it will pass from summer time to standard time: at 03:00 all hands will be moved back one hour, to 02:00. For years the question of summer time/winter time alternation has been on everyone’s lips, between those who would like to remove it at all costs and those ...

The NBA 3-Point Era: How Statistical Analysis Changed Basketball

The NBA 3-Point Era: How Statistical Analysis Changed Basketball

Steph Curry on one of his 3-point shots. Credit: Erik Drost via Wikimedia Commons There NBA basketball season has just begun and, even without being great fans, every year we notice more – watching some action of any match – how the teams set up their game to conclude the action with a 3-point shotthat is, that shot taken outside ...

Because Euler's identity is considered the most beautiful equation in mathematics

Because Euler’s identity is considered the most beautiful equation in mathematics

The formula Andiπ + 1 = 0said Euler’s identitytells us about powers and complex numbers and is considered by many to be the most beautiful equation in the world. What makes it so fascinating to mathematicians is its ability to put together five of the most important numbers in mathematics. Let’s see what this formula, discovered by the Swiss mathematician ...

5 curiosities about the Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci's most famous work

5 curiosities about the Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous work

There Mona Lisaalso known as “Mona Lisa“, is a famous work by Leonardo da Vincidating back to between 1503 and 1507. It is in all likelihood the most famous painting by the Italian artist, but also one of the best-known portraits in the world. The enigmatic smile, the subject unknown for a long time and then attributed, according to the ...

Two new species of frog and one of gecko have been discovered hiding among rocks in Australia

Two new species of frog and one of gecko have been discovered hiding among rocks in Australia

The three new species discovered in Australia, a gecko and two frogs. Credit: Hoskin, C.J., Davies, A. & Aland, K. (2024) A new species of Nactus gecko from boulder–pile habitat on Dauan Island, Torres Strait, Australia. During a targeted survey among the boulder clusters of Dauan Island – a granite island just 275 meters above sea level in the Torres ...