Credit: Wikimedia Commons. In the heart of Venetobetween the Asiago plateau and the Brenta valley, winds its way Calà del Sasso: the longest staircase in Italy and one of the most impressive in the world. Built in 14th centurycount 4,444 stone steps and connects the hamlet of Sasso di Asiago with Valstagna, in the municipality of Valbrenta in the province ...
The astrophysicist and popularizer Carl Sagan he is known, among other things, for a phrase that has become famous: «We are made of the same stuff as the stars». It means that a good part of the atoms we are made of, but also everything we deal with, were produced right in the warm heart of very ancient stars. It’s ...
The trap door of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. Night patrol (1642) is one of the Flemish painter’s masterpieces Rembrandtas well as the main work exhibited at Rijksmuseum of Amsterdam, the most important museum for local history, which has the largest collection of paintings of Dutch Golden Age (between the end of the sixteenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth century). ...
Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona What is theorigin of life on Earth remains one of the most complex questions that science has not yet found an answer to. A new study published in the journal PNAS tries to shed light on training processes of some prebiotic molecules, i.e. the “progenitors” of the organic molecules of living things. This new research expands ...
Generated with AI Let’s close our eyes and think about Jamaica: crystal clear beaches, sun, the notes of Bob Marley in the background…”Everything is gonna be alright“… and one bobsled team speeding down an icy track at full speed. Wait, what do you mean? Yes, Jamaica has an Olympic bobsled team and its history is truly curious. On the island ...
How many times, during the winter, did we complain about the bitter cold as soon as the thermometer touched 0°C? Yet, in Antarcticatemperatures well below zero are everyday life: but have you ever wondered what the lowest temperature ever recorded on Earth? Until a few years ago, the record was –89.2 °Creached on 23 July 1983 at the Russian base ...
Arianna Fontana in Milan Cortina. Credit: Los Juegos Olímpicos via From the Turin 2006 Winter Olympics to the Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympics, one way. The career of the skater Arianna Fontana it is a contemporary fairy tale, a common thread that has united generations through records and memories in a sport, lo short tracksin which speed and balance, physical and mental, ...
The Sanremo Festival, officially Italian song festivalis the longest-running television singing competition in the world and an icon of Italian tradition, born in the context of the social and cultural changes that affected Italy in the 1950s. Initially held in Casino of Sanremo (and from 1977 in Ariston Theatre), a Ligurian town in the province of Imperia which at the ...
There Hatta hydroelectric power station it is one of the United Arab Emirates’ most ambitious interventions in the field of renewable energy. This is the first pumped hydroelectric power station (pumped storage hydro power plant) of the region and is surrounded by the Hajar mountains, 4 km from the city of Hatta and approx 140 km from Dubai. From the ...
Carthaginian elephants at the battle of Zama (202 BC), in an illustration from the late 19th century. Credit: By Henri–Paul Motte – Das Wissen des 20.Jahrhunderts, Bildungslexikon, Rheda 1931, Public Domain. Over some archaeological excavations to Cordobain the Spain southern, archaeologists have found a very particular context, almost certainly linked to a war episode which occurred approximately 2200 years ago. ...