It’s news in the last few hours that Strait of Hormuz was closed following the attack on February 28, 2026 (known as “Operation Epic Fury”) by the United States against Iran marked a point of no return. If you’ve never heard of it, it’s a key transit point for global oil and liquefied natural gas trade 33 km wide (with ...
The lava flow recorded on Stromboli, today 2 March, at 08:36. Credit: INGV The Stromboli continue recordingmore intense volcanic activity than usual: as confirmed by the latest bulletin of the INGV Etna Observatory, the surveillance cameras observed a modest effusive activity from overflow from the North crater area, which produced a lava flow in the upper part of the Sciara ...
Artificial intelligence’s uncontainable hunger for resources is triggering a crisis in RAM memories, drying up global supplies and generating a domino effect which, ultimately, will increasingly impact the pockets of us end users. According to some market analyzes carried out by researchers at CounterpointResearch (a company specializing in market research in the tech world) so far we have witnessed a ...
Credits: BenAveling, CC BY–SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons THE’Etnaa fire giant who dominates the Sicilian landscape as well as a protagonist of several myths. But… if we were to talk about it, would we say that it is “wonderful” or “wonderful”? The apparently superficial and obvious question about the ambiguous gender of Etna (whose word derives from the Greek “Aitne”, ...
This simple experiment reveals one of the most fascinating mechanisms of the human visual system: thenegative afterimageor afterimage. As you keep your eyes still on the cross, the two halves of your retina are flooded with different colors, red on the left and green on the right. The photoreceptors responsible for those colors progressively tire, reducing their sensitivity. When you ...
In the Earth’s core would be found the largest hydrogen tank of the planet, dissolved in the iron-nickel which constitutes a large part of the nucleus, in a quantity even included between 9 and 45 times that contained in the oceans and which corresponds to 0.07-0.36% of the mass of the nucleus. This item would have been stored about 4.5 ...
Image edited with AI. Credit: Survival Condo The idea of anuclear apocalypse it intrigued (and sometimes worried) many people after the Second World War: it is no coincidence that films, video games and TV series have been produced that imagine dystopian scenarios bordering on science fiction. In reality – even if there is no such catastrophic scenario on the horizon ...
The construction of theidentity it has always been played between body, memory And social recognition. Today, with the massive diffusion of socialthe terrain on which the self is formed has shifted: no longer just physical relationships and autobiographical narratives, but digital tracks that remainaccumulate, are processed and reinterpreted by algorithms. The question is no longer whether our own exists “digital ...
Ali Khameneiborn in 1939 and killed on February 28, 2026 during the US-Israeli attacks on Iran, was the supreme leader of Iran from 1989 to death. Close to Ayatollah Khomeini, he took part in the protests against the Shah’s regime since the 1960s and at the end of the following decade he was active in Islamic revolution that established the ...
Going to sleep with wet hair it does not cause colds: this common belief has no scientific support, given that a cold is an infection caused by virus flu and paraflu, and does not find causes in going to bed with a damp head or in general with the cold, as also confirmed by the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS). ...