Slight decrease in seismic activity at Campi Flegrei in the last week of monitoring (27 October – 2 November 2025). The INGV Vesuvian Observatory recorded 149 earthquakes (compared to 178 the previous week), with a maximum magnitude of 2.1lower than last week’s 2.8. However, the bradyseism: the ground lifting speed is confirmed at the preliminary average value of approximately 20 ...
A comparison of the Torre dei Conti before the collapse of November 3rd and after. Credit: Matteo Brandi, via There Tower of the Counts of Rome it partially collapsed while recovery and restoration works were taking place on the building. The causes of collapse of the structure of the Imperial Fora – during which a 66-year-old worker remained stuck in ...
The August 16, 2013 will remain in the annals of the Internet as the day Google, for five minutesdisappeared almost completely from the Internet. Around 4:52 in the afternoon, Pacific time, all the main services of the Mountain View giant, from Google Search to Gmail, from YouTube to Google Drive, became temporarily unreachable. It was not a simple slowdown: according ...
There Klein bottledescribed for the first time by the German mathematician Felix Klein in 1882, is a surface, that is, a two-dimensional geometric shape relative of the donut, which however is not orientable, in fact it only has one face and although it seems closed to us it doesn’t have an inside and it doesn’t have an outsidejust like the ...
What we consider rubbish today can become energy and fertilizer tomorrow: to do this, the system that makes this step possible is essential, the biodigester. This is an increasingly widespread technology, which allows us to reduce emissions, contain costs and make cities more sustainable. What a biodigester is and what it does A biodigester is a bit like a large ...
A scene from the film “The art of arranging” by Alberto Sordi THE’“art of making do” it is not just an individual attitude, but a real one social philosophya way of being in the world that reflects continuous adaptation to often precarious economic, political and environmental conditions. “He who adapts, lives”: a proverb that summarizes one of the most profound ...
The first one was obtained pregnancy in the world in a couple with a history of infertility using spermatozoa identified and isolated by a system that uses theartificial intelligence. The platform developed by researchers at the Columbia University Fertility Center is called STAR (Sperm Tracking and Recovery) and allowed us to recover the rare motile spermatozoa of a 39-year-old man ...
A supermoon (right) compared to a medium-sized full moon (left). Credit: Marcoaliaslama, CC BY–SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons The second “supermoon” of 2025 will light up the sky on Wednesday 5 November 2025: the “super beaver moon”, so called following Native American tradition, will be the largest and brightest of the year and it will appear about the 7.9% bigger ...
The Conti Tower in Rome in 2013. Credit: kevinmcgill from Den Bosch, Netherlands, CC BY–SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Two collapses occurred in rapid succession and affected the Torre dei Conti in Romecausing the partial collapse of some vertical elements and internal floors. The structure of the Imperial Forums was currently the subject of static consolidation interventions financed by PNRR ...
A refurbished device or regenerated it is not simply a used product: it is an object that has been returned, tested, repaired (if necessary), sanitized and put back on sale after passing thorough technical checks. In the case of smartphones, these are often phones that have been returned for reasons not related to faults, but for simple afterthoughts or small ...