In the night between Sunday 20 and Wednesday 23 October of this year will arrive peak from the Orionidsone of the most intense meteor showers of the autumn period and the first of a certain importance after that of Perseidsthe “stars of San Lorenzo” visible in August. The swarm actually occurs from late September to late November, but the next ...
Credit: AlexL1024, via Wikimedia Commons These are the last days to observe in our skies the “comet of the century” C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS. The brightest comet of the last decade in our hemisphere, coming from far away Oort cloud at the edge of the Solar System, it survived the perihelion on September 27th and put on a show at the ...
It’s really possible make an elephant disappear? The answer of course is “No“, even if the big one illusionist Harry Houdini (1874-1926, pseudonym of Erik Weisz) managed to convince the audience of the oppositeHippodrome Theatre of New York the January 7, 1918. On that occasion he let an elephant inside one big box and, a few seconds after closing the ...
Credit: Fire Brigade Bad weather returns to plague Emilia-Romagna: after the red alert declared for Saturday in the Region, between Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 October 2024 storms and floods hit the entire Emilia and Romagna region, especially in the area of Bologna and some neighboring municipalities such as Pianoro, San Lazzaro di Savena and Casalecchio di Reno, where it ...
THE’404 errori.e. the one that returns the message “Page Not Found” (i.e. “page not found”), is a standard protocol response code HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol), which warns the user that the requested web page was not found. It occurs when a browser communicates correctly with a server, but the latter is unable to locate the specified resource, often because it ...
Not just Africa, South-East Asia or South America: also in Europe there is a colony of wild monkeys. We’re talking about a group of 230/240 Barbary macaques who live mainly on top of the rock of Gibraltaran English territory (a so-called “exclave”) since 1704, located inextreme south of Spain and overlooking the strait of the same name, which separates the ...
Credit: Brian Yurasits, via Unsplash The nanoplasticstiny particles arising from degradation of plastic, they are now widespread everywhere and represent a possible risk to human health and the environment. They can accumulate in the organs through the food chain, with possible negative effects on the endocrine and reproductive system. As a result, several have been studied techniques to remove them ...
Clive Wearing on piano. Credit: Jiri Rezac Clive Wearing is one of the best known neurological cases in the world: British pianist and conductor, in 1985 (at the age of 46) he was struck by aherpetic encephalitiscaused by the common herpes simplex virus, which attacked his hippocampus (the “central station” for sorting his memory), making him unable to create new ...
When it comes to serum from the truththoughts might turn to the potion Veritaserum of Harry Potter, but from Diabolik to 007 there are countless pop culture characters who have used it in their adventures, not to mention the novel Kallocaine by Karin Boye. But does it really exist? We say yes, even if it is not entirely “truthful”. Technically, ...
After a dinner in Tunisia, some retired former Italian secret service agents were hospitalized for poisoning peach seeds. For one of the agents, the ingestion of these seeds, present in a peach liqueur served at the end of the meal, proved fatal. Investigations are currently underway to understand how it was possible, but beyond the legal matter, let’s try to ...