Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo spits water on the pitch. Credit: Reuters If you have ever watched a Serie A football match or a stage of the Tour de France, you will surely have noticed a curious scene: the athlete takes a water bottle, takes a sip, holds the liquid in his mouth for a few seconds and then… spits it all ...
If you are planning on doing some travelling, 2026 will definitely be a favorable year, as it will be full of bridges: by taking only 8 days of holiday, in fact, you can reach a total of 31 days. It starts with New Year and Epiphany: if the 1st and 6th are usually considered holidays due to company closure. But ...
A fake notice passed off as coming from Autostrade per l’Italia for an alleged «unpaid toll» is forcefully returning “to the charge”. The text of the message is as follows: «Autostrade per l’Italia: there is an unpaid toll. Amount €6.50. Pay securely by (…) », followed by the date and the link which, however, once clicked, collects sensitive information from ...
Possible G3 class geomagnetic storm. A category G3 geomagnetic stormthat is to say “strong” according to the official classification – which goes from G1 and G5 – could affect the Earth today, December 9. As reported by NOAA’s Space Weather (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), it was caused by acoronal mass ejection (CME) towards Earth, which occurred last December 6 ...
A new one has been discovered thermophilic amoeba named Let’s set fire toeba cascadensis (“fire amoeba of the Cascades“), isolated in the warm waters of Lassen Volcanic National Park (California, USA). This microorganism is capable of replicating up to a temperature of 63°Cexceeding the previously hypothesized upper limit for eukaryotic life. The finding is reported in an ongoing study pre-primt ...
Earthquake in Japan measuring 7.6. A strong one earthquake of magnitude 7.6 hit the Japan at 11.15pm (local time, 3.15pm in Italy) yesterday. According to the USGS, the epicenter has been located at seaabout 70 km from the coast of Misawa (Aomori Prefecture), one depth Of 44km. The Japan Meteorological Agency initially issued a tsunami warning of a higher level, ...
In the riddle of the pirates and the 100 coins, they are there five pirates very intelligentperfectly rational and very greedy that they must divide a chest containing 100 gold coins. The captain is the first to propose a strategy of dividing the treasure and all the pirates, including him, can vote. If the proposal is rejected, the captain is ...
Many times we find ourselves wondering “But was it that cold last year?” or “But was it this hot in other years?”. These are questions that can be answered by searching through the meteorological archives, and that’s what we did: we bring you the temperatures of December 9th scheduled for Milan, Rome, Naples And Palermocompared with those of the same ...
Image generated with Ai. The Jellyfish Lake it is one of the most unusual places in Palau: an isolated marine basin, located on theEil Malk Islandwhere millions live golden jellyfish, whose sting is (almost) painless for humanseven if they have not completely lost the stinging cells that they use to hunt. It is a unique place in the world: a ...
In the mid-sixteenth century a group of Genoese moved to the island of Tabarkaa short distance from the coast of Tunisia, to cultivate coral and control the trade route. Before them, for four hundred years, the island had been the territory of the Pisans. At the end of the eighteenth century, the Genoese left Tabarka because the coral had run ...