New IT–Alert tests in Veneto for the risk of a “significant industrial accident” in the Pometon factory in Martellago. Credit: IT–Alert Today 13 November, in Veneto, there will be a new round of tests IT-Alert after the tests in Emilia-Romagna and Trentino-Alto Adige last month: the simulation of the public warning system will affect the Pometon spa plant in Martellagoin ...
The Megachile bee discovered in Australia. Credit: Prendergast KS, Campbell JW (2025) Megachile (Hackeriapis) lucifer (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae), a new megachilid with demon–like horns that visits the Critically Endangered Marianthus aquilonaris (Pittosporaceae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research. A new species of hymenopteracalled “Lucifer bee” (Megachile Lucifer) for its convex horns on the front of the head (called clypeus), was discovered in Australia ...
The Rosetta Stone admired by tourists at the British Museum in 1985; credit: RickDikeman, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons The opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza has reignited calls for return of the famous Rosetta Stone, one of the main finds stolen in the colonial era, now preserved in the British Museum in London. The stele, discovered by the ...
There Milan Prosecutor’s Office has opened an investigation into a chilling case that brings to mind the infamous “Sniper Avenue” in Sarajevo, the city besieged from 1992 to 1996 by the Bosnian Serb militias after the Bosnia declared independence from Yugoslavia. It was a long avenue that ran through the center of the capital, connecting the airport and the western ...
Composite image of a meteor shower. These days, looking up at the sky, if you see a “shooting star” you know that it is a meteor which belongs to the meteor shower from the Northern Taurids. The peak of this shower, which can reach 5 meteors per hour, theoretically falls during the night between November 11th and 12thbut according to ...
A Turkish military cargo plane Lockheed C-130 Hercules crashed on the border between Georgia and Azerbaijan while on its way to Turkey with 20 people on board: the dynamics of the accident, which occurred yesterday 11 November, have not yet been clarified by the Turkish authorities, who have started an investigation into the disaster and this morning confirmed the death ...
Generated with AI Forty years ago, in 1987inside the underground of a villa of Bolognaone was discovered copper funerary cistcontaining gods partially mummified human remains, green in color. The particular color of the body is due to the copper that contained it: copper ionsproduced by metal corrosion, they interacted with bones and tissuesand the humid, oxygen-poor environment favored saponification and ...
Northern Lights spotted by the webcam of Plan de Corones, in Trentino–Alto Adige, in the early hours of November 12, 2025. The show of Northern Lights it returned to illuminate the Italian skies on the night of November 12, 2025 with numerous sightings between 4 and 5 am especially along the Alpine arcfrom Piedmont to Trentino-Alto Adige. Webcams and enthusiasts ...
A strong shock of earthquake of magnitude 5.1 it hit the island of Cyprus today, November 12, at 11.31am (local time, 10:31 in Italy). According to what was reported by INGV, the epicenter was located at 2km east of Koniain the west coast of Cyprus, a few kilometers away from the international airport of Paphos (or Paphos), the largest town ...
A new research project, the SAKURA project (Studying the Asthenosphere as a Key to Understand the Dynamics of Plates and the Origin of Magmas), was started to study in more depth the layer of the Earth’s mantle called asthenosphere and located Between about 100 and about 400 km deep. The objective of the project financed byINGV (National Institute of Geophysics ...