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.
In an era dominated by notifications, chats and endless scrolling, the University of Genoa in Italy, is launching an innovative project around the psychophysical well-being of its students, faculty, researchers and staff. This is how the first two 'disconnection rooms' were created: spaces where the digital world stays outside and silence, concentration and recharging mental energy play the main role.
Sleep is one of the most important pillars of our health. It's not just about waking up feeling refreshed in the morning: it affects how we think, remember things, make decisions and even how long we live for. For a long time, science has looked at sleep primarily through a simple measure: the number of hours we sleep. In recent years, however, research has begun to look beyond this seemingly obvious fact.
Anyone who thinks about Ancient Egypt immediately envisions pyramids, golden sarcophagi and mummies shrouded in mystery. Yet some of the most stunning objects from the Egyptian civilization not only tell a story about Earth, but a story that begins much further away, among asteroids and drifting chunks of rock in space as well.
North America's driest and most inhospitable place has turned into a sea of colors. That's because Death Valley National Park in California is experiencing one of the most spectacular natural phenomena in recent years: an extremely rare 'superbloom', a massive bloom of wildflowers that covers the desert with carpets of yellow, purple and orange. According to the National Park Service, this is the most intense bloom in the past decade, a phenomenon that occurs, on average, only once every 10 years.
For years, we have imagined Earth's center as immobile: a compact, silent sphere hidden under thousands of miles of rock and molten metals. In textbooks, Earth's inner core is often described as a static, stable mass, almost as if it had crystallized over time. A fixed point in a planet that on the surface, on the contrary, never stops changing.