El Niño is the warm phase of the cyclical climate oscillation known as ENSO. Credit: UFMS In recent months we have been talking insistently about El Niñodriven by official confirmations from the main international monitoring centers such as the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and the European service Copernicus. Many headlines and articles appearing on the web paint scenarios ...
A local police car in Lombardy. Traveling through the different Italian regions, someone will have noticed that the Local police cars are not all the same: the colors of the stripes change, the symbols on the doors change, even the type of writing changes. While the livery of the Policeof the Carabinieri and gods Fire Brigade is always the same ...
What if we told you that it is possible to self-produce solar energy — and even wind power — without installing a photovoltaic panel on the roof or planting a shovel in the garden? It seems like a paradox, especially for those who live in condominiums or rented apartments and simply don’t have the space. Yet in Italy there is ...
Every time the earth shakes violently, we are suddenly reminded of how alive, dynamic and unpredictable our planet is. In the collective imagination, the risk of a devastating earthquake is often associated with distant places: the mega-earthquakes along the Pacific Ring of Fire in Japan or the spectacular rifts of the San Andreas Fault in California. Yet, the geographical reality ...
There are functions in our smartphones, which are sometimes ignored because they are relatively hidden in the depths of Android or iOS. This is a great shame, because they do not allow us to exploit our devices 100%. An example of a function that is often ignored by users and which is present on iPhones was introduced by Apple several ...
In recent days it has reignited internationally the alarm about the potential dangers of artificial intelligence for humanity. What fueled it first was his resignation from Anthropic on September 9th Jacob Coxona researcher who also previously worked at OpenAI, was publicly concerned about the uncontrolled development of these technologies, and even before that, the warning from Volker Türk, the United ...
We are once again talking about the Highway Code, after the issue of fines has re-emerged in the draft of the new reform: in particular the basic text, still in public consultation, would contain theabolition of the 10% penalty which is triggered automatically every six months of delay. This is a provision that dates back to 1981, which received a ...
A few days ago a serious episode of hydrocarbon spillage (probably diesel) occurred in the waters of the Naviglio Grande in Pontevecchio, a hamlet of the municipality of Magenta, in the western part of Milan. A black oily stain spread for about a few hours 28km almost up to the Darsena of Milan. One of the most immediate and impressive ...
The planet’s glaciers are losing mass at a high and accelerating rate. In the hydrological year 2025 alone, glaciers outside the large ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica lost 408 ± 132 gigatons of massequivalent to approximately 1.1 ± 0.4 mm of global mean sea level rise, as reported by WGMS Network (2026). From 1975 to 2025 the cumulative loss ...
Image Credit: NASA/JPL–Caltech/University of Arizona Why is there a bear’s face on Mars? This is a curious one case of pareidoliathat is, a psychological phenomenon whereby we happen to see human faces, animal shapes or other recognizable shapes in objects or on surfaces. This is an illusion and happens due to a natural mechanism of our brain, which is led ...