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 ...
From 9 to 12 October the national exercise will be held at the Campi Flegrei “EXE Flegrei 2024”, the third and final exercise of the Civil Protection scheduled for this year in the area. Unlike those of April and May, which concerned the risk of bradyseism, this one concerns the volcanic risktherefore relating to the possibility of an eruption in ...
The annular solar eclipse of October 2, 2024 as seen from Easter Island. Credit: timeanddate.com Punctual as only astronomical phenomena can be, theAnnular solar eclipse gave a show yesterday October 2, 2024 in the skies of much of South America. The luckiest were the 175,000 inhabitants in band of annularity which crossed southern Chile, southern Argentina and Easter Island: in ...
The Body Mass Index (in acronym BMI and in Italian Body Mass Index), invented by Adolphe Quetelet in the 19th century, it is a system for classifying body weight, adopted by the WHO in the 20th century for more immediate identification overweight And obesity. The Index presents however significant limitations and in this regard an emblematic case is that of ...