An island where some women fly crossing the sea to Palermo to go shopping, others are transformed into crowsthey see each other strange animals that appear and disappear suddenly, spirits And ghosts, banquets through the streets and even a creepy clown. This is what the arcudari – the inhabitants of theAlicudi islandthe loneliest in the Aeolian archipelago in Sicily – ...
Credit: Microsoft. On WhatsApp you can now interact with Copilotthe chatbot based on the artificial intelligence model developed by Microsoft. This means that querying the Redmond giant’s chatbot to find the answer to questions or create textual and multimedia content will be feasible by directly exploiting the famous Meta messaging app. To activate Copilot on WhatsApp, simply scan a specific ...
The X9.0 solar flare on October 3, 2024 observed by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory probe. Credit: NASA/SDO The Sun emitted the most energetic flare of this solar cycle (the 25th recorded, started in 2019) yesterday October 3, 2024 at hours 2.18pm Italian, from the active region AR 3842which will bring “strong” geomagnetic storms to Earth over the weekend with the ...
The Mount Everestalso called Chomolungma in Tibetan e Sagarmāthā in Nepali, the highest peak in the world with its 8848.86 m in the Himalayas, it is rising by 2 mm per year. The discovery comes from a study by the Chinese University of Geosciences and University College London published on Natureaccording to which Everest has grown between 15 and 20 ...
Credit: CDC/ Dr. Erskine Palmer, Russell Regnery, Ph.D., from Wikimedia Commons Wednesday 2 October 2024, one student of medicine, 27 years old, returning by train to Germany from a trip to Rwandawas isolated with his girlfriend after showing symptoms compatible with the virus Marburg. The boy alerted the authorities while he was on the train, after showing the first symptoms. ...
Theatre, scene, drama, tragedy, comedy, chorus, dialogue: all these words are of Greek origin. It should not be surprising, therefore, that Western theater was born in ancient Greece. Tradition attributes the first forms of theater to Thespis tragedianwho arrived in Athens from the island of Icaria towards mid-6th century BC Through the centuries, from Greece and Rome to the Renaissance ...
In the aftermath of the great South American annular eclipse, autumn and winter of 2024 they promise to be crackling as regards the program of the astronomical eventsthanks above all to the passage to the Earth flyby comet C2023/A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS)dubbed the “comet of the century,” scheduled for October 12. It survived the close encounter with the Sun and will probably ...
There RP FLIPan acronym that stands for “Floating Instrument Platform”was an Office of Naval Research laboratory “ship” capable of rising vertically in about 30 minutes thanks to a controlled sinking. Built in 1962 and in operation until 2023, when it was dismantled, it was more precisely a research platform and in fact it had no engines and could not move ...
Today is the news of a accident at Brindisi airport: at 8:35 a.m. aboard a Boeing 737 of Ryanair bound for Turin there was a start of fire in one of the engines. Fortunately none of the 184 passengers of flight FR8826 was injured and they were all evacuated without problems via the emergency slides and now the Salento airport ...
Artist’s impression of a sub-terrestrial mass planet orbiting Barnard’s Star. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser. Finding an Earth-like planet in our cosmic neighborhood would be a momentous discovery, likely humankind’s greatest. Precisely for this reason, astronomers focus their attention on the star systems closest to us in search of extrasolar planets that meet these characteristics. The news that the astronomers of the ...