There are objects that enter our lives with the promise of making our lives easier, but disappear just as quickly. Disposable e-cigarettes are one of the clearest examples of this contemporary paradox: a few days of use, a perfectly working lithium battery, followed by a noiseless journey to the trash can.
Some innovations initially seem light years away from our daily lives, but then suddenly pop up in everyday conversations, somewhere between a coffee break and a mindless scrolling moment on the phone. The tofu battery belongs in that category: at first it surprises, then the idea sticks, because it contains something that sounds just a little bit different from anything we've ever heard before.
Once again, a theft shocks the Milan-Cortina 2026 Paralympic Winter Games, following that of the two curling stones. This time, against his will, Emanuel Perathoner was the victim. After capturing gold in the boardercross and in the banked slalom at the Paralympics, the champion from South Tyrol had to deal with an incredible theft: his two precious snowboards were stolen during the awards ceremony last Friday, at the Socrepes complex in Cortina d'Ampezzo.
A sudden fire broke out Wednesday morning at the Giardini della Biennale in Venice. The fire struck Serbia's pavilion. The flames, which flared up around 9:55 a.m., caused a thick column of black smoke visible from afar. This caused concern among residents, tourists and employees of the international art exhibition.
Heavy accident on the A20 freeway Messina-Palermo: a huge chain collision involved some 80 vehicles on Tuesday morning, just before 9 a.m., in the Villafranca tunnel, on the section between Rometta and Milazzo towards Messina. Not only cars, but also trucks were involved in the accident. Following the mega-chain collision, the fire department, police and several ambulances rushed out to assist drivers and passengers and to secure fuel tanks. Fortunately, as far as is known, there were no serious injuries.
St. Patrick's Day, the Irish festival par excellence, is celebrated on March 17. It's a very popular commemoration not only in Ireland, but in many other countries such as Canada and the United States, home to large Irish communities.
Frequent waking, the Moro reflex (startle reflex) and difficulty falling asleep make nights fragmented and often grueling.
Those who think of space quickly think of it as an infinite and unchanging realm, governed by natural laws that humanity watches only from a distance with increasingly sophisticated telescopes. In recent years, however, that view has begun to tilt. Scientific research has reached a point where man has managed to communicate with the cosmic environment with a precision which, up until recently, belonged mostly to fiction.
On a beach in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, tourists came across two marine creatures that were as fascinating as they were enigmatic: huge oarfish, also known as 'apocalypse fish'.
A Greenland shark has been filmed for the first time at near-freezing depths off the South Shetland Islands in the Southern Ocean.