Credits: BenAveling, CC BY–SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons THE’Etnaa fire giant who dominates the Sicilian landscape as well as a protagonist of several myths. But… if we were to talk about it, would we say that it is “wonderful” or “wonderful”? The apparently superficial and obvious question about the ambiguous gender of Etna (whose word derives from the Greek “Aitne”, ...
This simple experiment reveals one of the most fascinating mechanisms of the human visual system: thenegative afterimageor afterimage. As you keep your eyes still on the cross, the two halves of your retina are flooded with different colors, red on the left and green on the right. The photoreceptors responsible for those colors progressively tire, reducing their sensitivity. When you ...
In the Earth’s core would be found the largest hydrogen tank of the planet, dissolved in the iron-nickel which constitutes a large part of the nucleus, in a quantity even included between 9 and 45 times that contained in the oceans and which corresponds to 0.07-0.36% of the mass of the nucleus. This item would have been stored about 4.5 ...
Image edited with AI. Credit: Survival Condo The idea of anuclear apocalypse it intrigued (and sometimes worried) many people after the Second World War: it is no coincidence that films, video games and TV series have been produced that imagine dystopian scenarios bordering on science fiction. In reality – even if there is no such catastrophic scenario on the horizon ...
The construction of theidentity it has always been played between body, memory And social recognition. Today, with the massive diffusion of socialthe terrain on which the self is formed has shifted: no longer just physical relationships and autobiographical narratives, but digital tracks that remainaccumulate, are processed and reinterpreted by algorithms. The question is no longer whether our own exists “digital ...
Ali Khameneiborn in 1939 and killed on February 28, 2026 during the US-Israeli attacks on Iran, was the supreme leader of Iran from 1989 to death. Close to Ayatollah Khomeini, he took part in the protests against the Shah’s regime since the 1960s and at the end of the following decade he was active in Islamic revolution that established the ...
Going to sleep with wet hair it does not cause colds: this common belief has no scientific support, given that a cold is an infection caused by virus flu and paraflu, and does not find causes in going to bed with a damp head or in general with the cold, as also confirmed by the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS). ...
Image generated with AI. Flight tests were carried out in Moscow pigeons-biodrones equipped with neural interfaces and used for environmental and industrial monitoring operations: like this Forbes Russia headlined a recent article and, within a few months, the news has gone around the world, with many people wondering whether it is true – and if so, to what extent. To ...
Fourth official in football. Generated with AI. The origin of the role of the “fourth official” in football is more recent than you might think. The birth of this figure, in fact, can be traced back to February 25, 1999. On this date during the Ligue 1 match between Marseille And Strasbourgthe referee Bruno Ruffray he suffered severe pain in ...
The new M346 military aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori. Credit: Gian Marco Anzellotti, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Is called M346 the next aircraft for the advanced training of the Frecce Tricolori of the Italian Air Force, which will replace the Aermacchi MB-339A PAN since 2028. Produced in Italy by Leonardo and presented in 2024, it is a twin-engine ...