In Emilia -Romagna, over 30 firefighters were carried out due to the damage caused by bad weather. Credit: Fire Brigade Bad weather has struck the againEmilia-Romagna And the whole Adriatic front. The cause is not the arrival of the Storm Amy – who hit northern Europe – but of a depression produced by a Atlantic bag associated with the storm. ...
The October 4th A new seismic swarm has started Campi Flegrei with epicenter in the Pozzuoli area and that, in less than 12 hours, originated 13 SISMI with maximum magnitude of 3.3. The latter shock, the most intense, was recorded at 00:50 of 5 October with a hypocenter to just 2 km deep. Overall, the various earthquakes have been felt ...
There HS2 It represents an important infrastructure project, currently under construction in the United Kingdom. Consists of one high -speed railway networkable to make the transport of goods, people and resources faster and more functional. Will connect London with the main cities of the North, including Birmingham. It will be the second line of this type in the United Kingdom, ...
There Kaprekar constant, 6174so called in honor of the Indian mathematician Dattatreya Ramachandra Kaprekar who discovered it, is a mysterious number that always comes back on itself. If we order its figures from the largest to the smallest, and then from the smallest to the largest, we get the numbers 7641 and 1476 which, subtracted from each other, give 6174 ...
It was 1907 and Francis Galton – a British statistical, biologist and anthropologist – was in one cattle fair Where a competition was underway: estimate the weight of an ox. Galton noticed that the average estimate made by hundreds of people was incredibly close to real weight of the animal. Not only that: the collective error was much lower than ...
The largest landfill of all time, Fresh Kills Landfill, in business. Credit: Chester Higgins, Jr., via Wikimedia Commons The mega landfill Fresh Kills Landfill It was the largest ever built in the world (while the largest for electronic waste is the Acra landfill in Ghana): remained operational for over half a century between 1948 and 2001, has stored huge quantities ...
The word “race” He has accompanied us for centuries, yet he continues to be one of the most controversial: has entered everyday life, in official documentsin lawsin political discussionsuntil it becomes a term that might seem natural but it is not. Talk about “human races” It means moving in a slippery field, made of history, prejudices and power: born for ...
Imagine walking barefoot in a tropical lagoon, the water is crystal clear, the sand seems smooth, but under you an animal can be hidden that does not want to be seen: the stonefish (Synanceia Verrucosa), also known as stone fish, Perhaps the most insidious of the fish that populate the seabed of the ado-Pacific and the Southeast Asia. His rocky ...
The candles used on the birthday cake are attested with certainty only from the beginning of the nineteenth centurywhen they were placed on Goethe’s dessert, but the origins of the ritual of candles are older and perhaps date back to Celebrations in honor of the goddess Artemide widespread in Greek civilization. In the ancient world, in fact, fire was often ...
The monoscope For decades a fixed image was broadcast by Italian television (and not only) in the moments when the programs were not on air. If today we are used to a continuous and uninterrupted flow of transmissions, things were once differently. Many inevitably associate it with 60s and 70sbut up to most of the 90s often happened to turn ...