The holidays are almost over, there’s little left untilstart of school and, like every year, students and parents count down until the first bell rings it varies from region to region. The first to start again will be the pupils of the autonomous province of Bolzano, on Monday 7 September, while the last will be those of Puglia, 10 days ...
Yayoi Kusama in 2012. Detail from Wax model (2012) Garry Knight via Wikimedia Commons The Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, it has often been reduced to the image of the “polka dot artist”, or even of the “infinity rooms”. It is true that many of his works obsessively feature the characteristic dots, and that some of his most recent and appreciated ...
A photo of Lençóis Maranhenses, Brazil If you look at a satellite photo of northern Brazil, in an area near the equator, you will see a white spot that seems out of place: it’s about the Lençóis Maranhensesthat is, thousands of lagoons of crystal clear water nestled between white sand dunes. A landscape so vast that, of similar dimensions, it ...
Images from surveillance cameras at the Rasuwagadhi crossing, on the border between Nepal and Tibet. Credit: Ravi Pandey, via A violent one flash flood he overwhelmed Rasuwaa district on the border between Nepal and the Tibetdevastating entire villages in northern Nepal and causing the death of at least 95 peopleaccording to the latest police report, and more than 400 missing. ...
Image created with AI for illustrative purposes. It will have happened to any of you at least once in your life open a “vasistas”: this is the type of window or window which, instead of opening sideways, tilts obliquely towards the inside of the room. In fact, the door rotates on hinges located on the lower side, opening at the ...
The Chang Zheng 5 rocket ready at the Wenchang launch base. Credit: CMSA There Chinese mission Chang’e-7, directed to south pole of the Moonwas postponed and may not leave before 2027: it was announced by the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA), who explained that «the Chang’e-7 mission does not meet the launch conditions and cannot be carried out in the ...
With diesel prices above 2.2 euros per liter on the motorway, hunting for the cheapest distributor is no longer enough. With the expensive fuel increasingly pressing, every motorist must find ways and systems to save on fuel. The good news is that We decide a significant part of driving consumptionwith some attention before even starting the engine. This is possible ...
The cancer vaccine Moderna and MSD’s mRNA against melanoma has passed phase 3. It is not a preventive vaccine against cancer in general, but a treatment designed to people who have already had melanomaparticularly stages IIB to IV skin melanomas completely resected (i.e. surgically operated), which when used in combination with the immunotherapy Keytruda (pembrolizumab), serves to reduce the risk ...
The stone circle of Wadi Kashab. Credit: Cooper et al. Between the Nubian Nile and the Red SeaIn the Atbai deserta vast region of north-eastern Africa (between present-day Egypt southeastern and Sudan north-eastern) still little known from an archaeological point of view, the satellite images have revealed the traces of a little-known ancient civilization, with a monumental funerary tradition underestimated ...
In addition to obvious remains such as ruins, aqueducts and roads, the ancient Romans they have left us some much less visible elements such as the hidden meaning of certain terms that we use today without thinking too much: one of these cases is the term lefta polysemantic word that indicates, among many meanings, it’s a road accidentwhat a adjective ...