Athletes training in Kenya. Credit: via X.com Mexico City, 18 October 1968. In the first round of the Olympic final long jump men’s at the University Olympic Stadium, the 22-year-old American Bob Beamon amazes the whole world by touching the ground after a jump 8.90 metersimproving the previous world record by 55 centimetres. The optical device installed to measure the ...
Looking at a newbornwe often ask ourselves: is his mind like a computer with an empty hard disk, or does he already have a “operating system“? For centuries it was believed that the infant brain was a blank canvas or, as the philosopher argued John Lockeone “clean slate“. Today knowledge on the subject has progressed greatly and, despite the complexity ...
The Apuan Alps they represent a deep and magnificent scar on the skin of Italy, where the white color of the marble mixes with shadowy gorges and sharp peaks. Here, between the smoke of the quarries and the millennial silence of the rock, nature has worked for geological eras like a patient alchemist, combining chemical elements under extreme pressures and ...
The April 25th it is the anniversary of the liberation of Italy, the day on which our country celebrates the liberation from the fascist regime and occupation by the Nazis. The date was chosen because April 25, 1945 took place the insurrection of the population in the Italian regions occupied by the Germans and fascists. The insurrection was the final ...
One of the mummies found in the necropolis. Credit: Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities and Tourism To Al Bahnasaancient Oxyrhynchus, in Egypt, the Archaeological Mission of the University of Barcelona concluded the 2025-2026 campaign with a definite discovery unprecedented in the history of archaeology: a papyrus fragment with verses fromHomer’s Iliaddeliberately placed inside the bandaging a mummy from the late Roman ...
The frustration that comes with having a unstable or excessively slow Internet connection it’s an experience that we’ve all experienced from time to time, at least once. And when this issue interferes with our daily activities, such as work video calls or streaming a movie, frustration can skyrocket. When this happens we tend to immediately blame our Internet service provider, ...
It is not a deception and artificial intelligence has nothing to do with it. Let’s talk about a drug born to cure type 2 diabetes, but which today has become the object of global desire for another purpose: the fast weight loss. It is the GLP-1R agonist known commercially as Ozempic®. But this is not just a pharmaceutical story, it ...
The Ferrari Hypersail livery. Credit: Ferrari SpA Press Release, Maranello, 21 April 2026 A 30 meter ocean racing prototype (100 feet) designed to literally fly over water thanks to foildesigned to challenge world records and powered entirely by renewable energy. Is called Ferrari Hypersailand it is one of the most ambitious engineering projects that the Prancing Horse has ever undertaken ...
Paleoartistic representation of Tanyka amnicola. Credit: Vitor Silva A study published on Proceedings of the Royal Society Bwith Jason D. Pardo of the Field Museum in Chicago as the leader, he describes Tanyka amnicolaone new species of tetrapod (the superclass that includes all four-limbed vertebrates, including us) archaic found in Brazil. The evolutionary history of tetrapods is traditionally divided into ...
It’s hard not to have noticed: in general, any good purchased at the airport or on the motorway it is always more expensive compared to the same good purchased in a bar or supermarket outside the toll booths. This also happens in the case of fuels: refueling with petrol, diesel or LPG is in fact usually more expensive in service ...