Often, when a new earthquake occurs in the Campi Flegrei, I don’t find out about it from the seismographs, but from people.“Earthquake.”“Andrei, that was cool.”“Now yes, never felt so strong.”Well, when they tell me that, I immediately take action to understand what it was about.I check the INGV data, compare the locations, look at the depth, and as usual I ...
Six different galaxy clusters captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The clusters were observed in a study of the behavior of dark matter. Credit: ESA/Hubble, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons There dark matter represents one of the greatest mysteries of modern physics. Although invisibleexercise severity in the Universe, but it does not emit or absorb light. The evolution ...
The October 25th we celebrate the World Pasta Daya food loved all over the world, and for some time it has been discussed whether this specialty, today associated with our culture and the Mediterranean diet, was invented in Italy or in Asia. From the sources at our disposal, we know that pasta was born in China at least 4,000 years ...
The Pinarello Bolide F HR 3D allowed Filippo Ganna to set the new Hour record. Credit: CICLI PINARELLO SRL In 2022, Filippo Ganna wrote a new page of “Hour record” in Grenchen, Switzerland, cycling for 56,792 kilometers in sixty minutes exactly. It’s one of cycling’s purest and most raw tests: an hour of covering as much ground as possible, alone, ...
Artist’s impression of the exoplanet GJ 251 c. Credit: University of California Irvine An exoplanet candidate with at least 4 times the mass of the Earthprobably rocky like ours, potentially capable of hosting liquid water on its surface and – so as not to miss anything – very close to the Solar System in astronomical terms (“just” 18 light years): ...
“Monster of Florence” is the nickname used by newspapers to refer to the author of eight (or seven, according to another hypothesis) double murders which occurred near the Tuscan capital between 1968 and 1985. The victims were couples who had secluded themselves in the car to have sexual intercourse (only in one case were they in a tent) or people ...
The Mexico City Formula 1 circuit. Credit @F1 via “X” The Mexico City circuitbetter known as “Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez”is the highest track in the entire Formula 1 World Championship with well 2238 meters above sea level. A peculiarity which is no small feat and which brings with it many problems, especially for the mechanical components of the single-seaters. The rarefaction ...
In the night between Saturday 25 October And Sunday 26 October 2025 come back againsolar time in Italy: at 03:00 in the morning the hands will move backwards of 60 minutes, giving us an extra hour of sleep and catching up with the arrival of summer time last March. This alternation will bring forward both sunrise and sunset by an ...
Every winter the expression punctually returns: “It’s freezing cold“. The expression does not arise from legends or historical episodes, but from the role that the word dog has had for centuries in Italian: a strengthener with a negative flavorthe same as “dog’s life” or “dog’s life”. Over time, popular explanations have been woven around this saying – dogs left out ...
At this time of year, autumn, the Asian stink bug (Halyomorpha halys), completely harmless to humans and domestic animals, can create quite a few nuisances and inconveniences in our homes: adults nest in warm, sunny places, seeking shelter in homes to spend the winter and if disturbed they let themselves fall to the ground, pretending to be dead or, in ...