This year they are in Italy 11 more Blue Flags: the Italian municipalities that have obtained recognition are in fact 257 against 246 last year, for a total of 525 beaches (11.6% of the Blue Flag beaches awarded worldwide!). There are 14 new entrances and 3 exits, and the lake Blue Flags have risen to 23. The region with the ...
In just 2 months, global oil supplies have shrunk by 250 million barrels. More than ten weeks after the outbreak of war in the Middle East, the market global of oil is experiencing one of the most serious crises in its recent history, with oil stocks that they are reducing “at a record pace”. This is what is highlighted in ...
Remora attached to a Great Oceanic Manta Ray (Manta birostris). The hesitations they are those fish that cling to other larger animals such as manta rays, sharks and turtles thanks to a kind of suction cup on their heads to be transported for free across the ocean. A study published in April 2026 in the journal Ecology and Evolution has ...
Geometric magic: from an “eight” to a square with two scissor cuts There is a geometric magic that, thanks to suns two scissors cuts on a sheet of paper, it takes us from a “eight” to a square. But how is this possible? To reproduce the geometric experiment we need to take a piece of paper and cut out a ...
We all have our eyes on clocks every day but perhaps not everyone knows exactly how they work. For example: why do the second hands move jerkily in some watches while in others they move much more smoothly? And what is the mechanical component responsible for the classic “tic tac”? In this video we clarify these and many other aspects, ...
There sous vide cooking was born in the kitchens of the great restaurants of the 70s, but only in recent decades has it entered the homes and curiosity of the general public. Its principle is simple: the food comes sealed in a bag almost devoid of air and cooked slowly at a controlled temperature, immersed in water in a bain-marie ...
Italian Cup. Credit: Lega Serie A. There Italian Cup final on 13 May 2026 between Inter and Lazio it will also mark the debut, for a major Italian sporting event, of an access system entirely based on NFC technology. This means that the ticket cannot be shown in a printed version, nor in PDF. To enter the Olympic stadium in ...
The plant under construction in Laufenburg, Switzerland. In the Swiss canton of Aargau, almost on the border with Germany, a deep trench is being dug 27 meters and almost 200 meters wide. It is there, at the Laufenburg Technology Center, that the most powerful redox flow battery ever built in the worldwith a capacity of 2.1 GWh (the energy demand ...
Some Italian municipalities, such as Asti or Roveretoare reviewing their road maintenance plans due to lack of resources. TO Castelfidardoin the province of Ancona, some roads were closed due to lack of bitumen to carry out regular maintenance. This is a consequence of the Hormuz crisis in the context of the conflict between Iran and the United States, which is ...
Which animals sleep the most? It seems like an easy question to answer – that would be enough measure the number of hours of sleep daily newspapers of each type and draw up a ranking of those that spend the most time sleeping. Instead the question is not that simple at all: Not all animals sleep the same way as ...