Let’s imagine a day at the beginning of October: outside it is still 25°C, the sun is warm and somefall there doesn’t seem to be any trace. Yet many plants have already started preparing for the change of season. Some progressively stop growing, others modify their metabolism, while species that lose their leaves initiate the processes that precede senescence. But ...
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and the “acampada” of Puerta del Sol, in Madrid. The Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced the calling of early elections for November 29th, dissolving both bedrooms of Parliament with a statement from the Moncloa Palace. The decision comes after weeks of growing tensions in the country, with tens of thousands of people taking to ...
In the first days of October, news arrived from the Siberian region of Irkutsk that quickly went around the world: the sudden death of a laboratory technician (Darya Shipilova, aged 28) and the quarantine of almost two hundred people (189) who had come into contact with her. It is important to clarify that, at the moment, there is no official ...
We were guests of Central Command of the Milan Fire Brigade for a video in which, together with the officers, we tried all types of fire extinguishers in safe conditions. The objective is to explain how these tools really work, which ones to choose depending on the type of fire and how to use them correctly. The starting point is ...
The Mieza complex. Credit: Greek Ministry of Culture TO Miezain ancient times Fruit salad (current northern Greece, near modern Naoussa, in the Emazia region), the new excavation campaigns are providing further elements to identify the Royal Gymnasium with the place where Aristotle (384/383-322 BC) educated the young Alexander, future Alexander the Great (356-323 BC). The complex, located near today’s Naousadates ...
First autumn week in Italy. Source: ECMWF After a long period characterized by a decidedly anomalous and typically summer meteorological phase more than autumnal, here as announced in the “October trend”, after an anti-cyclonic and hot start to the month, autumn really seems to want to start getting serious in Italy, starting from this week, already from Tuesday 6 October. ...
Rogue waves, off-scale winds, storms, poor visibility and currents that can send less prepared boats adrift. Even today, navigating the routes at the most extreme latitudes of the globe can be a challenge that should not be underestimated, despite modern nautical technologies and the most advanced oceanographic knowledge we have at our disposal. We are talking about regions of the ...
From Istat’s third survey on women’s safety, it emerges that the 15.3% from the Italian women between 16 and 75 years has suffered at least one physical or sexual violence before the age of 16: approximately 3 million victims. The most widespread form of sexual violence is unwanted touching in private parts, while physical violence results not only in pushing, ...
The Mother Church of São Gabriel in Brazil In the south of Brazilin the state of Rio Grande do Sulthere is a church whose interiors are almost entirely covered in purple amethysts: it’s about theIgreja Matriz São GabrielMother Church of São Gabriel. During its last restoration, which took place between 2003 and 2008, over 40 tons of geodes and crystals ...
Effect of phyllody on an Arabidopsis thaliana flower. Credit: Galien et al., 2026, CC BY 4.0 The molecular mechanism by which some bacteria can transform flowers into leaves has been discovered. For a plant, building a flower means executing a program extremely precise. During development, in fact, each organ must appear in the right place and take on the correct ...