Last night, Italy had a special show: the boreal aurora shined in the North of Italy. Our unusually active Sun produced a surface explosion a few days ago that sent out a burst of electrons, …
Italy: aurora shines far south
The truth about Halloween: the darkest cross-quarter day
Pumpkins, zombies, monsters, witches…trick-or-treat!!! What’s your costume tonight? If you are late, and you have no inspiration, take few minutes to read where Halloween comes from. The truth is that it’s all about astronomy! Probaly …
Bring back the Tasmanian Tiger!
The tawny coat with dark stripes, the jaws with a 80 degrees opening, these were the principle traits of the Thylacinus cynocephalus, or the Tasmanian Tiger. The last Thylacinus, a wolflike marsupial, died in 1936 …
Summer 2023: the hot season of the records
NASA announced the summer of 2023 was Earth’s hottest since global records began in 1880. The scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS) in New York show the trend of the months of …
The tomorrow anular solar eclipse
America roll your eyes tomorrow, October the 14th, to see an annular solar eclipse. This happens when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth while it is at its farthest point from Earth. The …
The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences tells the story of thousands women
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2023 to Claudia Goldin for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market …