Artist’s impression of the titanic collision between two planetoids in the early Solar System. Credits: NASA/JPL–Caltech. Theiathe planetoid about the size of Mars that impacted the Earth about 4.5 billion years ago, giving rise to Moonwould not come from remote areas of the Solar System but from the internal Solar System: in short, it was a “neighbor” of the Earth. ...
Generated with AI A team of Chinese researchers explored the eastern section of Gakkel mid-ocean ridgean underwater mountain range approximately 1800 km long in the’Arctic Oceannever visited before as it is one of the most difficult areas on Earth to reach. The mission, which ended in October, used one icebreaker ship and of submarine Fendouzhewhich also hosted a crew. Over ...
The story of the “forest family” has reopened the debate onhomeschooling – parental education carried out from home – after three children were removed from the parents with whom they lived in a house in the woods in Palmoli, Abruzzo. Without going into too much detail about this complex case – to which the regulations on parental responsibility and on ...
The activity of kissing would be much older than you might think – 21 million years ago – and that it can even date back tocommon ancestor of man and great apes. This is what emerged from a recent study, conducted by Matilda Brindle And Stuart Westof theUniversity of Oxfordtogether with Catherine Talbot of the School of Psychology of Florida ...
WhatsApp has decided to bring back one of its historic functions, the “Information” sectionsimilar to Instagram Notes, updating it and making it central again within the profile and private chats with a setting designed for quick, clear and contextualized communications. The new feature allows users to insert a short text message (unlike Instagram Notes which also allow you to interact ...
The latest available Istat data shows that, in 2023, 334 murders 117 were women and 217 were men, with a homicide rate of 0.57% per 100,000 inhabitants. Seeing these data, you might think: so why are we talking more and more often about feminicides and so little about male murders? Well, they are the motives to get people talking above ...
The lifesaver: we all have it at home, but do we really know what it protects us from and how it works? In reality its technical name is differential switchand he is not the only one to defend us from the dangers of electricity. As we see in this video, in fact, they exist several protection switcheseach designed to stop ...
In 2024 almost the 7% of newborns in Italy they have acquired the double surname from their parents, a figure that has almost tripled since 2020. The latest report tells us so Istat on Birth rate and fertility of the resident population – year 2024, where it is reported that the share of births with a double surname has reached ...
The eruption of the Hayli Gubbi volcano in Ethiopia. Credit: Space Tracker, via The volcano Hayli Gubbilocated in the Afar region of northeastern Ethiopia, erupted for the first time after a period of inactivity almost 12,000 years. The eruptive episode, which began yesterday 23 November, lasted several hours and produced a column of smoke which reached i 14/15 km in ...
Have you ever imagined getting lost among the streets ofancient Rome? Well, now you can do it thanks to Itiner-ea sort of “Google Maps of ancient Rome” launched by a group of historians, cartographers, archaeologists and computer scientists who reconstruct 300,000 kilometers of roads of the Roman Empire, transforming your browser into a historical atlas. Just like the famous navigation ...