Have you ever thought about what happens before a pilot boards a plane with hundreds of passengers on board? We did, and to find out we went to see, and try, for ourselves. In this video, Andrea sits at the controls of a Full Flight Simulator Level Dthe highest level of existing simulation, the real one, used by Air Dolomiti ...
Great white shark filmed in the Sicilian Channel. Credit: Derk Remmers, Ghost Diving For the first time in history, a adult great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) was filmed directly underwater by a group of divers in the heart of the Mediterranean Sea. The face-to-face meeting, as reported in a press release, took place off the coast of the Sicilian Channel. ...
Imagine having to shell out the equivalent of a car or even a house to attend a basketball game for a few hours. It’s not science fiction, but what’s happening right now New York. Tonight, at 2.30 Italian time, i New York Knicks they face i San Antonio Spurs in Game 3 of the NBA Finals, and the ticket market ...
The fire broke out in the Delca Energy company in Lugnano, in the province of Pisa. Credit: Fire Brigade inThere’s a big one going on fire in the factory Delca Energya company specialized in the recovery and recycling of plastic material located at Lugnanoa fraction of the municipality of Vicopisano (Pisa). The alarm went off around 9.30, with the fire ...
7.8 magnitude earthquake in the Philippines. A violent one earthquake of magnitude 7.8 hit the Southern Philippines at 07:37 in the morning (local time, 01:37 in Italy) on Monday 8 June 2026, as confirmed by the USGS. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) had initially recorded the earthquake at magnitude 7.0, then updated the estimate to 7.8. The ...
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TO Fuerteventura, in the Canary Islands, there is a very particular beach, that of Majanicho which, seeing it like this, would seem to be covered in pop corn. What has been renamed “Popcorn Beach” is located in the municipality of La Oliva, about 7 km from the town of Corralejo: some might think of it as a hoax or to ...
Each “down” (diaspora) of the dandelion is made up of the seed and its pappus made of bristles arranged like an umbrella to facilitate dispersion with the wind. As children, and sometimes even as adults, we collected the soft white “balloons” of the plant Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) and, blowing decisively, we released dozens of small feathery umbrellas into the air. ...
Image generated with AI. When it comes to absurd architectural and engineering projects, definitely the Plan Voisin wins a place of honor. Presented for the first time in 1925 on the occasion ofInternational Exhibition of Decorative Arts in Paristhis project, which bears the architect’s signature Le Corbusier, it essentially involved gutting (demolishing!) a large area of Paris 240 hectares near ...
An ancient map of the city of Venice, where Venetian, a variant of the Venetian language, spread. “Do you speak Venexian?” is the question you may hear while walking through the calluses of Venice, perhaps while trying to defend a dish of cicchetti from the assault of cocài. Talking about the Venetian also implies talking about Venice and its political ...