That rhythm unmistakable and persistent that accompanies us on warm days from June to September – unlike crickets, which chirp in the dark – is the sound emitted by cicadas which, contrary to what Aesop’s famous fable “the ant and the grasshopper” says, are insects particularly active. But why do we only hear them in the summer? cicadas they are ...
The Canadian Shield is made up of remnants of the primordial crust, dating back about 4 billion years. The ways in which, between 4 and 2.5 billion years agoon the surface of our planet were formed the first continents are often the subject of debate among scientists. A new study, conducted by David Hernandez Uribea professor at the University of ...
The mountain can be a treacherous environment and unfortunately in case of emergency you need to know how to behave, what number to call (the 112) and how to communicate with the rescue helicopter. So now let’s go over step by step everything that needs to be done, based on the instructions provided by the National Alpine and Speleological Rescue ...
Downburst (archive image). Credit: Couch–scratching–cats, CC BY–SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons To cause the sinking of the Bayesian Yachts off the coast of Little Port (PA) in the early hours of the July 19, 2024 it would not have been a waterspout on the sea, that is, a waterspout, but a downburst (which in Italian could be translated as “burst ...
In 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) re-declared the Monkeypox (also called mbox) as a health emergency of international concern, underlining the seriousness of the situation following the spread of a new strain of the virus. Sweden and Spain have recently recorded their first cases of mpox. In this context, we interviewed Nicolò Binello, technical officer at the World Health ...
THE’asteroid which caused theextinction of the dinosaurs non-avian 66 million years agoas well as over 70% of living species at the time, probably came from the Solar System externalbeyond the orbit of Jupiter, according to a new study presented in the journal Science. The hypothesis that an asteroid caused the Cretaceous mass extinction gained ground in 1990 thanks to the ...
Overbooking is a business strategy which consists in selling more services than can be provided (in the case of flights, more tickets than available seats on the plane)in the knowledge that some buyers will be forced to give up, due to some impediment. Airlines calculate, based on statistics, how many more tickets they can sell on each route. However, it ...
On the border between Italy and France, in particular between Liguria and the French Riviera, in the province of Imperia, lies the Italian municipality of Ventimiglia, with a population of about 23,000 inhabitants. This town has been known for years as one of the main Hotspot migrants from Europe. In fact, due to its location, every year thousands of migrants ...
Located in the Tanzania north-eastern bordering the Kenya inside the national park of the same name, the Mount Kilimanjaro (or Chilimanjaro) with his 5895 meters of altitude It is the highest mountain on the African continentas well as the largest isolated mountain in the world, that is, not associated with mountain ranges. However, the “Roof of Africa” is not a ...
In the last few days the case of Joseph Russoa young man from Salento 23 years old died at the Policlinico of Bari due to septic shock and multiorgan failure about a month after a presumed bite Of spider violin has unleashed a wave of fear And alarmism on the dangerousness of this spider. However, it is essential to clarify ...