It is no coincidence that spiders are a symbol of Halloween: in autumn it is much easier to see spiders in our homes. The most obvious explanation is that this greater presence is due to seasonal temperature drop: Spiders, looking for a warmer shelter, but also for food and moisture, enter homes from the outside in early autumn. In reality, ...
Damage caused by the 7.4 magnitude earthquake in Butuan City. A violent earthquake of magnitude 7.4 it hit at 9:43 local time (3:43 in Italy). Philippines with epicenter off the east coast of Davao Oriental62 km from Manay, and hypocentre in 58.1 km depth, according to data collected by the US geological survey USGS confirmed by the Institute of Volcanology ...
The Nobel Peace Center building in Oslo, Norway. THE Nobel Prizes won by Italian citizens are – so far – 21divided into different categories: literature, medicine, physics, chemistry, economics and peace. The first compatriot to receive the coveted award was Giosuè Carducci in 1906, while the most recent dates back to 2021, with the Nobel Prize for Physics going to ...
The car is the preferred means of transport for Italians, used for almost two thirds of our trips (64.7%). According to the latest ISTAT data, in 2021 the 41.9 million vehicles in Italy traveled a total of approximately 420 billion kilometers. The average distance for a private car is around 10,231 km per yearbut this figure varies based on some ...
The new ball for the 2026 World Cup, TRIONDA. Credit: Adidas The official ball of the FIFA World Cup 2026 was revealed by Adidas. Is called TRIONDA and is characterized by particular technology and a design that celebrates the nations that will host the World Cup next summer: United States, Canada And Mexico. The name itself is a tribute to ...
Mind-brain dualism has very ancient and controversial origins: today there is agreement in representing, at least in conceptual terms, the mind as the set of psychic and cognitive functions (such as thinking, remembering, perceiving…) and the brain as the biological organ that makes these processes possible through neuronal activity. Some philosophers of the past thought that the seat of the ...
Celebrations in Gaza for the peace agreement reached between Israel and Hamas. Two years after the attacks of October 7, 2023in which 1200 Israeli civilians were killed, today 9 October 2025 an agreement was signed ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas and the acceptance of one first phase of the peace agreement. The negotiations took place in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt, ...
An alleged piece of news has circulated in recent days regarding the introduction starting from October 10th by Google of a new feature on Gmail, called AI Enhanced Classification and Reviewwhich would have allowed Gemini-based artificial intelligence to automatically analyze the contents of our emails without explicit user permission. Naturally the news has caused some concern regarding the violation of ...
Comet 3I/ATLAS observed by ExoMars. Credits: ESA/TGO/CaSSIS, CC BY–SA 3.0 IGO. The European Space Agency (ESA) has released the first awaited images of the close passage of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS to the planet Marsalone 30 million km away. ESA attempted to image the comet using all the instruments on board the ExoMars and MarsExpress probes, normally used to study ...
Antarctic sea ice hole in 2017. Credit: NASA In Antarcticain the Weddell Sea, for decades a huge “hole” in the sea icemore or less the size of Switzerland, opened several times and then closed again without apparent regularity, in the presence of temperatures well below zero. Its origin, after remaining unknown for a long time, has finally been clarified by ...