A few days ago a serious episode of hydrocarbon spillage (probably diesel) occurred in the waters of the Naviglio Grande in Pontevecchio, a hamlet of the municipality of Magenta, in the western part of Milan. A black oily stain spread for about a few hours 28km almost up to the Darsena of Milan. One of the most immediate and impressive ...
The planet’s glaciers are losing mass at a high and accelerating rate. In the hydrological year 2025 alone, glaciers outside the large ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica lost 408 ± 132 gigatons of massequivalent to approximately 1.1 ± 0.4 mm of global mean sea level rise, as reported by WGMS Network (2026). From 1975 to 2025 the cumulative loss ...
Image Credit: NASA/JPL–Caltech/University of Arizona Why is there a bear’s face on Mars? This is a curious one case of pareidoliathat is, a psychological phenomenon whereby we happen to see human faces, animal shapes or other recognizable shapes in objects or on surfaces. This is an illusion and happens due to a natural mechanism of our brain, which is led ...
Example of notice regarding WhatsApp security code changed. Have you ever noticed the appearance of a small yellow box with writing inside “Your security code with (contact) has changed”. If you don’t have the faintest idea why this message appeared, we’ll tell you right away that this has to do with WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption encryption, the system that protects the ...
Italian students are better at reading than the average of OECD countries The results of thePISA 2025 international survey show that reading is the skill where the Italian fifteen year olds are better while the major criticality emerges in digital programming. The students of the Bel Paese are instead on average OECD in science and mathematics subjects and the percentage ...
We often imagine bone as a static, immutable tissue, but in reality, like everything in our body, to remain, it must change and constantly changing. Bone tissue is an element dynamic and changingcapable of adapting, repairing itself and with an important role in many physiological functions of the human body, from management of circulating calcium levels to the production, in ...
In the collective imagination, theaters and cinemas have i seats red. Of course, today there are many with black, gray or multicolor seats, but historically this has been by far the most popular color. But for what reason? As we will see, there is no single answer: it is a mix of theater history and science. The origin of red ...
THE’chronic onychophagia (the repetitive habit of biting your nails) compromises both dental hygiene and hand health, becoming a vehicle for the continuous transfer of pathogens between the fingers, the oral cavity and the digestive system. As demonstrated by a study published in Journal of Clinical Microbiologyit subungual space (the small pocket under the free edge of the nail) hosts a ...
You are telling a friend about your weekend at the seaside, without even a cloud. «The Sun has…» and here you get stuck. Shiny? Shiny? If neither of the two sounds good, there is a reason: the first form is no longer used and is today foreign to common use, while the second it is not the past participle of ...
Images showing the drying up of the Aral Sea in 1984 (left) and 2022 (right) As changed our planet from 1984 to today? To find out there is a tools of Google, Google Earth Timelapsewhich provides satellite images and aerial photographs of the Earth’s surface, showing year by year (from 1984 to 2022) the evolution of various areas of the ...