Map of northern Italy. In everyday language, when we talk about North we simply mean the North. Yet, the word North comes from Latin septem trioneswhich means literally “seven oxen”. A completely different image from the modern geographical one: in fact it does not indicate a cardinal point, but a group of stars very precisely, the seven brightest stars in ...
The map of storms arriving in Europe in the next 24 hours. After weeks of almost absolute hegemony of thesubtropical anticyclone, the meteorological scenario over Italy is undergoing a metamorphosis important. THE‘high pressurewhich locked the Mediterranean atmosphere in a bubble of static, muggy heat, began to give in along its northern perimeter. This first weakening has already triggered a series ...
The Strait of Bab el–Mandeb, marked with a red X. There truce between the United States and Iran it’s officially skippedwith mutual attacks now increasingly intense in recent days and the reintroduction of US naval blockade. Now the conflict, however, risks spreading beyond Persian Gulf: Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels just announced a maritime embargo against Saudi Arabia. To understand why ...
You’re watching Toxic Don’t miss out on more content from Geopop Michela and Alessio met six years ago through his partner. She works in a gluten-free food shop in Cisterna di Latina, he arrives at the weekend from Rome. It’s immediately afriendship true, even if it takes Michela a while to admit it to herself. Because Alessio, at the beginning, ...
A cyborg cockroach wearing a “diving suit”. Credit: Nanyang Technological University A group of researchers carried out a very particular experiment on a cockroach in a study published in Nature Communications. The research team of Fan and Sato, from Nanyang Technological University of Singapore have built and made the cockroach “wear” a small one “mutt” which allows him to breathe ...
If you have a WhatsApp account and you care about your privacy, there are some settings of the famous messaging application that you should change if you want to prevent your contacts, or even unknown users who have come into possession of your number, from using some data visible on your account to “spy” on you in some way. In ...
Artistic rendering showing the possible lights seen from space of real cities on the lunar surface. Credit: NASA International Moon Day (IMD) is the international day dedicated to our satellite, celebrated every year on the date that coincides with the anniversary of the Apollo 11 landingwhich occurred on July 20, 1969. However, the history of lunar exploration begins long before ...
Winning a football World Cup is one of the most difficult feats to achieve, but managing to win it twice in a row is an even rarer feat: in the history of the World Cup only two national teams have achieved it. THE‘Italy Of Vittorio Pozzo won the editions of 1934 and of 1938while the Brazil won the title in ...
Is science neutral? Often, when we think of someone who works in science, one person comes to mind rational, rigorous, immune to prejudices and external pressures. Someone who manages to rise above personal opinions to observe reality in the most objective way possible and thus make science neutral and impartial. In practice, this is not entirely true: science is done ...
Specimen from Likaweli (C. congoensis) photographed in Lomami National Park. Credit: Daniel Rosengren – Hart JA et al. (2026) Likweli: A remarkable new species of Colobus monkey from the Lomami National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo. PLOS ONE In the dense rainforests of Democratic Republic of the Congobetween the Lomami River and the Lualaba River, the discovery of a new ...