Ecology

Should you order the usual dish or not? The solution to the restaurant dilemma is Feynman's mathematical formula

Should you order the usual dish or not? The solution to the restaurant dilemma is Feynman’s mathematical formula

When we are at a restaurant, we should order the usual flatwhat we already know is good, or order something new risking it disappointing us? This is the “restaurant problem”solved at the end of the Seventies by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman, who derived a formula to establish when it is appropriate continue to experiment and when is best ...

Palazzo Chigi in Ariccia, what the baroque residence shaped by Bernini looks like

Palazzo Chigi in Ariccia, what the baroque residence shaped by Bernini looks like

Palazzo Chigi, Ariccia (RM). Credit:. By LPLT – Own work, CC BY–SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11139871 Palazzo Chigi, a historic palace in the center of Ariccia, in the province of Rome, in the Castelli Romani area, represents an imposing architectural organism which develops a total volume of approximately 60,000 cubic meters, divided into four main levels in addition to the mezzanine floors ...

Natural hydrogen in Italy: the CNR creates the first map of areas with promising deposits

Natural hydrogen in Italy: the CNR creates the first map of areas with promising deposits

THE’Institute of Geosciences and Georesources of the CNR (CNR-IGG) developed the first systematic mapping of the Italian white hydrogen potentialcrossing and processing structural, geochemical and thermal data of the national territory. A research that is part of the growing international interest in this possible resource in the context of the energy transition. THE’white hydrogen or geologicalis an energy resource of ...

Glaciers and water reserves are shrinking: an estimated 11,400 billion euros due to water bankruptcy

Glaciers and water reserves are shrinking: an estimated 11,400 billion euros due to water bankruptcy

In 2026 a report from the United Nations University – Institute for Water Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) stated that the world has entered the era of global water bankruptcythe global water bankruptcy. A phenomenon of which there are already concrete signs: approximately 70% of the main aquifers of the world shows a long-term decline. The concept of bankruptcy describes a ...

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Do booking flights on Tuesday really cost less? What the new Google data says

Image generated for illustrative purposes only with AI. Buying a plane ticket Tuesday does it really save money? It’s one of the most repeated pieces of advice when it comes to flights, along with the idea that there is an almost “magical” moment of the week when fares drop. The new data published by Google Flights However, they tell a ...

The new INGV study on the raising of the Campi Flegrei and the relationship with CO2 emissions

The new INGV study on the raising of the Campi Flegrei and the relationship with CO2 emissions

An image of the Campi Flegrei caldera. Credit: Bini et al., (2016) To the Fields Flegrei the emissions Of CO2 follow a very similar trend to that of lifting of soil: these are the conclusions of a recent study published in the scientific journal Science Advances. The paper was created by researchers atNational Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), of ...

Barcolana 58 in Trieste: the program and how the largest sailing regatta in the world works

Barcolana 58 in Trieste: the program and how the largest sailing regatta in the world works

Boats in the Gulf of Trieste during the Barcolana. On October 11, 2026 the Gulf of Trieste will become the stage of 58th edition of the Barcolanathe sailing regatta with the most participants in the world. Its peculiarity lies in an almost unique form: on the same starting line, professionals and simple enthusiasts compete side by side on banks of ...

Earthquake in Panama measuring 7.7: panic in the capital, tsunami warning issued

Earthquake in Panama measuring 7.7: panic in the capital, tsunami warning issued

Earthquake in Panama measuring 7.7. A strong shock of earthquake Of magnitude 7.7 it hit Panama at hours 12.56pm (local time, 7.56pm in Italy) today, Friday 9 October. According to USGS records, the epicenter it was located in the south of the Central American country, 12 km from Pitaloza Arriba. The hypocenterhowever, was just detected 12km of depth. As often ...