The largest oil spill in the Mediterranean: the MT Haven shipwreck

Il piu grande sversamento di petrolio nel Mediterraneo
L’April 11, 1991 the oil tanker MT Haven, anchored off the port of Genoa, exploded causing 5 victims among the ...

The names of the Full Moons, what they mean and where the 13 denominations come from

nomi lune piene
Every month, punctually, when the full moon arrives we hear about the “Strawberry Moon”, “Hunter’s Moon” and so on. Headlines ...

The technical reconstruction of the disaster of the Aloha Airlines 243 plane which exploded in flight

Aloha Airlines 243
The April 28, 1988 the Boeing 737-200 of flight 243 of Aloha Airlines with 89 passengers flying from the city ...

Fewer and fewer believers in Italy and the West, will religion disappear? What could happen

crisi religione cristiana italia
In Italy during the 1900s we witnessed the separation between state and church and between state and religious school education. ...

Why do we watch Italy matches even if we aren't interested in football? The neuroscientific explanation

Perche guardiamo la nazionale
Watching the national team at the European Championships or the World Cup seems to be a question that overcomes the ...

How are geologists portrayed in films on the big screen? The investigation

geologi nei film
A survey conducted by Swedish film enthusiasts and published on Earth Magazine analyzed various cinematic databases globally in the period ...

Why is the sky so red in Munch's The Scream and what does it mean? The scientific explanation

urlo di munch cielo rosso eruzione krakatoa motivo scientifico
The dramatic red sky of the famous painting The scream by the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch (1863-1944) is interpreted as ...

How did Jules Verne predict trips to the Moon and submarines in his novels?

jules verne romanzi fantascienza
Jules Verneborn in France in 1828 and died in 1905, was a author of science fiction booksknown above all for ...

Did Napoleon really sleep one night in the Cheops pyramid? No, and he didn't bomb it either

napoleone davvero bombardato dormito piramidi
Fortunately the myth that sees the French general and emperor Napoleon Bonaparte (Ajaccio, 1769 – Saint Helena, 1821) bombing the ...

Titan, the complete 3D reconstruction of the bathyscaphe implosion one year after the disaster

Immagine
One year ago, Sunday 18 June 2023, the bathyscaphe Titanoperated by the private US company OceanGate, with on board 5 ...