COP30 in Belém, Brazil. Credit: UN Climate Change TO Belémin Brazil, has officially opened COP30, there 30th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations on the management of climate crisis and global warming: for the first time in history, the summit will take place on the outskirts of the Amazon Forest. This year there are two main objectives: to ...
Credit: Photo by Marek A, part of Urák I, Vrenozi B, Głąbiak Z, Lecoquierre N, Eiberger C, Maraun M, Ştefan A, Flot J–F, Brad T, Dainelli L, Sarbu SM, Băncilă RI (2025) An extraordinary colonial spider community in Sulfur Cave (Albania/Greece) sustained by chemoautotrophy. Subterranean Biology It was thought they couldn’t collaborate, but instead they built a colossal structure that ...
The lava flow on Stromboli’s Sciara del Fuoco. Credit: Irene Makarenko, via The volcano Stromboliin the Sicilian archipelago of the Aeolian Islands, gave rise to more intense than normal volcanic activity which began at 11:00 yesterday, Sunday 9 November: according to what was reported by the INGV, a lava overflow from the North crater area, which is feeding a lava ...
Detail of the Parthenon in Athens. Walking among the Doric columns of the Parthenon in Athens or in the magical Valley of the Temples in Agrigento, it is easy to be fascinated by the seemingly perfect harmony that characterizes them. But, looking carefully, you realize that these columns are not completely straight: they have a subtle curvature, the entasis. This ...
Black and white. Photo by David Werbrouck via Unsplash When we look at a painting, or open a box of pencils, we call every shade and tone we see “color”: the black and whitehowever, not appearing in the light spectrumthey may not be considered colors: white is the sum of all reflected lights, black is what we see when the ...
The shape of the stalagmites is not random, but can be explained with mathematics. Researchers P. Szymczak, AJC Ladd, M. and D. Pekarovič recently published a joint study between Poland, USA and Slovenia published in Pnas, which shows that the stalagmite shape can be described on the basis of a single parameter called Damköhler number. The researchers have in fact ...
The King Abdullah Financial District station of the Riyadh Metro, the longest driverless public transport system in the world. Credit: Hufont+Crow (Zaha Hadid Architects) There new Riyadh metroin Saudi Arabia, is the driverless public transport system longest in the world with its 176 km of length, distributed in 6 lines and 85 stations. Riyadh is a city in continuous expansion, ...
The Warley Museum, UK. Google Street View Telephone booths, caravans, elevators and even a wardrobe: there is a large number of museums that are just a few or very few square meters in size, and are often dedicated to a single theme, a historical figure or the place in which they are located. These micro-museumsborn and spread mainly between America ...
The 2025 ATP Finals will be played in Turin. Credit: Michael Frey (Michael Frey), CC BY–SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons At the end of every tennis season, when most of the tournaments have already delivered their verdicts, there is still one stage that remains illuminated: the ATP Finals. It’s the tournament of the best 8 in the worlda sort of ...
If putting on makeup in the morning seems like a harmless and habitual gesture, a few centuries ago it could seriously put your life at risk. This is what happened, according to some hypotheses, to Elizabeth I of Englandwho died at the age of 69 on 24 March 1603 after 45 years of reign, and to many noblewomen between the ...