Hundreds of newly hatched spiders can carpet an area with silk filaments. Credit: Little Grove Farms, CC BY 3.0,, via Wikimedia Commons If you pay attention and are lucky, you may happen to observe tiny spiders flyingsuspended in the air dragged by small triangular sails made of silk filaments. It’s about the ballooninga behavior used by various spider species (mostly ...
Credit: Charles J. Sharp, CC BY–SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons TO Deen Maar a small island off the coast of South Australia something unusual is happening: some Australian fur seals (Arctocephalus pusillus doriferus) they are losing large portions of their fur. Sea lions, not to be confused with seals, are a family of marine mammals belonging to the Pinnipeds and ...
Waterspout in front of Santa Margherita Ligure. Photo by Ale Kiaske The first real one late summer disturbance appeared on our Peninsula, determining a phase of strong meteorological instability. As indicated in the forecasts of recent days, starting from Wednesday 9 September the descent of one sagging of Atlantic origin towards the Mediterranean basin it interrupted the pre-existing warm and ...
A map of the Bab el–Mandeb Strait. There war in the Middle East Between United States And Iran is moving towards a new chokepoint strategic, it Strait of Bab el-Mandeb: the Houthis, the Yemeni armed movement supported by Iran, have taken the check of the historic port city of Mocha (located less than 80 km from the strait) and launched ...
Generated with AI Today the Italian men’s national volleyball team debuts at the 2026 European Championships facing Sweden at 9.05pm. With the start of the European event, one of the most followed sports in Italy is back in the spotlight, together with the technical gestures that can make the difference during a match. Among these there is an apparently simple ...
The expression “brand new” is used with the meaning of “new”, “intact”, “never used” or even as a hypothetical comparison to indicate an object that is still completely intact (“as if it were new (…)“). Behind this very common expression, which has nothing to do with the parasitic animal, actually hides a fascinating story between comparative linguistics and the printing ...
Aerial photograph of the Nimrud area. Credit: NiLTAP. For almost two centuries, the archaeologists they studied Nimrudancient city Assyrian – capital from the 9th to the 8th century. to. C. – whose remains are today found near Mosulin Iraqespecially through its palaces, temples and monuments. Now a new project byUniversity of Udine is shifting attention to the lesser-known part of ...
A part of the Great Mosaic. Credit: Special Superintendence of Rome. At Baths of Trajanon the Colle Oppioa Romean important intervention by restoration and enhancement of thesouth-western exedra and of underground tunnel of the complex, built as part of the program PNRR Caput Mundi. The intervention affected both the upper monumental spaces and the underground path, improving their conservation, accessibility ...
On the surface, the Po Valley appears as an expanse of 46,000 square kilometers completely flat. However, by exploring the subsoil up to several kilometers deep, geology reveals the presence of real folded and crumpled mountain ranges. Under the visible layer dominated by fields, canals and population centers, a package of sediments (gravels, sands, clays and marine deposits) which reaches ...
Image created for illustrative purposes only with AI. Almost 20 years have passed since Apple raised the curtain on the first iPhone, changing the fate of the mobile phone market forever. In the’“Surprise and shine” event broadcast from Cupertino today, Wednesday 9 September at 7.00pm (Italian time)Apple has unveiled the new ones iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max (some ...