Ecology

Who was Artemisia Gentileschi: life, works and history of the first female artist at the Academy of Florence

Who was Artemisia Gentileschi: life, works and history of the first female artist at the Academy of Florence

Artemisia Gentileschi, Self-Portrait as an Allegory of Painting, 1638–39. Royal Collection Trust In recent years, many forgotten female artists have been rediscovered, a work that arises from the desire to rebalance the narrative of art which has been (and often still is) historically unbalanced in favor of men. Among these, it is increasingly famous and appreciated the great painter Artemisia ...

We analyze the possible causes of the plane crash in Kentucky with pilot Nicolò Fatai

We analyze the possible causes of the plane crash in Kentucky with pilot Nicolò Fatai

The November 4th at 5.13pm (11.13 pm Italian time) a McDonnell Douglas MD-11 cargo plane crashed at the International Airport of Louisville, in Kentucky (USA), during take-off. The collision with an industrial area south of the airport hub caused a giant fireball and several explosions which in turn caused at least 12 victims. According to initial reconstructions, the left engine ...

What happens if we put petrol in the diesel engine and vice versa: how to avoid it

What happens if we put petrol in the diesel engine and vice versa: how to avoid it

It can happen, ed It’s more common than it seems: maybe we are still inexperienced, or we are simply lost in thought while we are at the petrol station, and we happen to make a mistake, putting diesel in our petrol car, or vice versa. Inserting the wrong fuel can cause serious damage to the engine, but the severity depends ...

Payments in installments arrive in the IO App: how it works for fines, health tickets and car tax

Payments in installments arrive in the IO App: how it works for fines, health tickets and car tax

Paying fines, health tickets, car tax or local taxes in a single payment may not be easy at all, especially when you are faced with unexpected amounts or those concentrated in the same period of the year. THE’IO app – the official platform for accessing digital services of the Public Administration – supports installment payment of these and other expenses ...

UPS 2916 and American Airlines 191 crash: two extremely similar airline disasters

UPS 2916 and American Airlines 191 crash: two extremely similar airline disasters

Goes up to The death toll is 12 and to 15 the number of missing people from the plane crash of UPS cargo flight 2976 which crashed yesterday on take-off from the Muhammad Ali airport in Louisville, Kentucky, causing a fire that spread for hundreds of metres. This was stated by the mayor of Louisville Craig Greenbergwhile the National Transportation ...

Philippines hit by typhoon Kalmaegi, now heading towards Vietnam: the images and why it was so destructive

Philippines hit by typhoon Kalmaegi, now heading towards Vietnam: the images and why it was so destructive

Damage from Typhoon Kalmaegi in the Philippines. Credit: TyphoonKPH, via The typhoon Kalmaegi hit the Philippines causing at least 140 dead and leaving more than 127 missing: Tinoas the tropical cyclone was nicknamed in the country, particularly hit the Cebu provincetouching land with the force of a category 2 hurricane (typhoon and hurricane, in fact, are two terms used to ...

Campi Flegrei, a new INGV study identifies a fault behind the intensification of earthquakes

Campi Flegrei, a new INGV study identifies a fault behind the intensification of earthquakes

Area of ​​Campi Flegrei at greatest current seismic risk (blue line) and the area that would be completely evacuated in case of imminent eruption risk (red line). Credit: INGV To the Phlegraean Fields the distribution of earthquakes is changing: until two years ago seismicity was widespread throughout the caldera, while since then it has been concentrating in a precise area ...

The world's smallest working bicycle measures just 8.4 centimetres

The world’s smallest working bicycle measures just 8.4 centimetres

There smallest bicycle in the world barely measures 8.4cm long and, incredibly, it works – as long as you have a good dose of technique and of balance. This curious object was made by Muscovite Sergey Dashevsky The September 15, 2019 and for this result he was awarded a Guinness World Records. Below is an incredible video of the inventor ...