In recent days the Indian Government has decided to close schools and universities and has issued health measures (including mandatory masks) in the Kerala region following the death of a 24-year-old man on 9 September 2024 due to infection with Nipah Virus (NiV). This was the second victim of this virus in India in recent times, after the death of ...
A rainbow on the surface of the water of a swamp? It almost seems like the setting of a fairy tale, but it is a phenomenon that actually occurs. These are the so-called “rainbow swamps” or “iridescent swamps” with colored stripes ranging from blue, to green, to purple, to golden yellow. The origin of this temporary phenomenon of iridescence it’s ...
Annular solar eclipse visible on December 26, 2019 in Sri Lanka. Credit: Rehman Abubakr, CC BY–SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons Wednesday October 2, 2024 a “ring of fire” It will be visible in southern Chile, Patagonia and Easter Island: it will be aannular solar eclipsethe last solar eclipse of 2024, which will begin at 12:42 local time (17:42 Italian time) and ...
Leonarda Cianciulli (1984-1970), known as the “Soap maker of Correggio“, was a serial killer Italian that between 1939 and 1940 killed three womenand according to his confessions, he would have dissolved their bodies in the caustic soda to produce soap and their blood to prepare some sweets. The crimes were allegedly motivated by occult beliefs, convinced that the sacrifices humans ...
Microsoft recently announced an agreement with Constellation Energy to be able to Reopen Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plantin Pennsylvania, famous for being the seat of the worst nuclear accident in the USwhich occurred on March 28, 1979, due to the partial meltdown of a reactor core. The aim of the agreement signed by the Redmond giant is to meet ...
The skeleton found in Grotta delle Mura in Puglia. Credit: Mauro Calattini The skeleton of a child who died approximately 17,000 years ago in the Upper Paleolithic at the age of just 16 months, found in the Cave of the Walls near Monopoli in Puglia by archaeologists from the University of Siena led by Mauro Calattiniled to the sequencing of ...
As incredible as it may seem, there is a person who is survived not to one but to two atomic bombs: that of Hiroshima and that of Nagasakidropped by the US Air Force in August 1945 at the end of World War II. We are talking about Tsutomu Yamaguchi (1916-2010), a Japanese engineer who at the age of 29 was ...
If you were to receive calls and messages from numbers with prefix +33be very careful because you could be the subject of the so-called “French prefix scam”. Like other similar scams – including the Portuguese prefix scam and the Dutch prefix scam – this one also aims to steal users’ confidential information for advertising purposes or even scamThe techniques used ...
Marathon participants. Credits: Missouri History Museum From marathons There are many who have made history, but there is one, that of the Olympic Games of August 30, 1904 in St. Louiswhich is remembered as the most absurd and chaotic of the athletics-related sporting competitions. This event, which was linked to the Universal Exhibition of that year, was somewhat overshadowed by ...
It may seem trivial to ask, but why is the day divided into 24 hourseach hour is made up of 60 minutes and every minute from 60 seconds (except for the occasional 61-second minute)? In the metric system, physical quantities (such as mass and length) are measured in multiples of 10, while time is an exception and it is measured ...