Many times we find ourselves wondering “But was it that cold last year?” or “But was it this hot in other years?”. These are questions that can be answered by searching through the meteorological archives, and that’s what we did: we bring you the temperatures of December 19th scheduled for Milan, Rome, Naples And Palermocompared with those of the same ...
For centuries man’s dream has been to fly, and Franz Reichelt, the “flying tailor” of Paris, was no different from other men: in 1912 he built and wore a sort of parachute suit with which he jumped from the Eiffel Tower. The invention, however, did not work, and Reichelt died instantly. But to tell this story which in all respects ...
Have you ever wondered where the photos and videos we save online end up? Obviously they don’t remain suspended in the air: there are physical places, buildings, where all the files we consult online are stored. These places are data centers. And they are not just used to store information: every time we give a command to a website, from ...
For the first time in Italy there is a public and national dataset on speed cameras. The register published on 28 November 2025 was born from the application of the provisions of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport which imposed on local authorities theobligation to communicate and register detection devices of speed on a centralized platform. Until that moment the ...
An image of Comet 3I/ATLAS captured by the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) on Gemini North on Maunakea, Hawaii. Credits: International Gemini Observatory/NoirLab/Nsf/Aura/B. Bolin. There comet 3I/ATLASthe third interstellar object discovered to transit our Solar System, arrives tomorrow 19 December at the fateful moment of closest proximity to Earth: this is a considerable distance (269 million km80% more than the Earth-Sun ...
The tallest Christmas tree in the world, in Gubbio. Precisely in these days, cities around the world are preparing for Christmascovering itself with lights and decorations of every shape, color and size. But nothing really does Christmas like a big and thick tree festively decorated, sparkling in the freezing night under the rapt gaze of passers-by. We have therefore drawn ...
Inside the Basùra Caveoverall Caves of Toirano (Savona), a research group interdisciplinary all Italian (funded by the National Geographic Society) has identified the oldest known traces of coexistence between a human group and a dog during prehistory. The study used as a technique theichnologyor the study of footprints. The sediment in question is already interesting in itself. Through dating to ...
Titan is the largest moon of Saturn and the entire Solar System. Titanthe largest moon of Saturn as well as of the entire Solar System, under its crust may not have a global ocean of water as thought for almost twenty years, but it could be made up of multiple layers of “soft” ice mixed with liquid waterwith portions of ...
Pink mist in the UK. Credit: Dr Gina van Raphael, via The images of the. are going around the world pink fog which at dawn yesterday covered some areas of the United Kingdom southern, up to the suburbs of London. In addition to the enchantment for a rare and suggestive phenomenon, concerns also arose about what could have caused this ...
THE’Riddle of the troll who hates paradoxes It’s a logic game that requires a good deal of cunning. You are in this situation: you are walking in a forest with your brother and sisterwhen suddenly a troll appears, who he captures them both. The troll tells you that he will keep them prisoner forever, but makes you a proposal: you ...