St. Elmo’s fire is an electro-luminescent discharge caused by the ionization of the air during a thunderstorm, within a strong electric field. Benjamin Franklin in 1749 observed that it was an electrical phenomenon. Physically, it manifests as a brilliant, bluish-white glow, appearing in some circumstances as fire, often in double…

Nikola Tesla was able to recreate it in his laboratory. A ball lightning is a rare, sometimes very short and particular luminous phenomenon of the atmosphere. It is a small luminous globe, almost spherical in shape and of variable diameter, stationary or, more frequently, in rapid and random movement. It…

It could help sectors such as urban planning and tourism. Between bars, stations, hotels and shops, the tweets written in the various locations redraw the city map following the emotions: in practice, around 2 million tweets made by 200,000 users in London and San Francisco made it possible to reconstruct…

The multiverse theory suggests that our universe, with all its hundreds of billions of galaxies and nearly countless stars, spanning tens of billions of light-years, may not be the only one. There may be more than one universe entirely different from ours, there may be an infinity of universes, all…

Troubles ahead for Elon Musk. King Charles III, reports The Telegraph, would have decided to wage a legal feud against the second richest man in the world. …

A group of neurologists managed to analyze the death of a brain thanks to an absurd coincidence. It is not easy to understand what happens to our brain at the moment of death. Recently, however, a group of neurologists has managed to observe this mysterious moment, discovering something truly incredible. The…

A mysterious radiation that appears only at impossible speeds. What is called the “Unruh effect” is a phenomenon theorized in 1976 which in a few words (very few) we could describe as a flare of radiation emerging from the vacuum. This mysterious radiation is produced by acceleration to the speed…

Nick Cave read the lyrics of a song written “in the style of Nick Cave” by the artificial intelligence software ChatGpt commissioned by a user. And King Ink ruled: “A crap”, “a grotesque mockery of what it means to be human”. …

Its diffusion in ancient Egypt was so widespread that it soon became a symbol of this culture. Ancient Egypt has hidden for millennia one of the most fascinating and varied cultures that have come down to the present day: it is no coincidence that many of the symbols and customs…