Let's be honest. Most of us, when the temperature drops below five degrees Celsius, don't feel like leaving the house, and if we do, we turn into a kind of human onion wrapped in thermal layers, polar fleece, and wool, with red noses. But what if we told you that, while we're glued to the heating, the world outside is transforming into an ephemeral art gallery?

The Trump administration is watching with some unease how many Olympic athletes have lost their fear. At the Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezo, many American Olympians criticized Trump's policies, especially those related to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the dreaded ICE. The most outspoken was Gus Kenworthy, a skier who won a silver medal in freestyle skiing at the 2014 Games. The 34-year-old skier posted a photo on social media showing his feet and a message written in the snow that could be interpreted as having been written with his urine. It read,Fuck ICE"It must be said that Kenworthy, a very popular figure because he is also an actor in action films and YouTuberHe decided in 2022 to stop competing as an American and do so as a British, although he was born in England, the son of an American father and a British mother, but by the age of three he was already living in Colorado.

Birgitte Thorup Nielsen (67 years old) carefully descends the icy stairs to avoid slipping. The sea water is -1 degree Celsius, and the strong wind whips up waves that splash her swimsuit before she enters the water. On a winter morning, the sun is hidden behind a gray sky, and the air temperature is -4 degrees Celsius, but the gusts of wind make the cold feel even more intense.

Bad Bunny has achieved a historic milestone in his career and for Spanish-language music. The Puerto Rican musician won the Grammy for Album of the Year on Sunday, the most important category at the awards ceremony, which celebrated its 68th edition. The event was marked by political messages and criticism of Donald Trump's immigration policies and the controversial ICE, Immigration and Border Protection.

The Universe is expanding faster and faster. But astronomers still don't know exactly why. Now the DES (Dark Energy Survey) collaboration has taken another step towards solving this enigma. For the first time have published results These measurements combine data from the two main sources available for measuring the expansion of the Universe: the clustering of galaxies and how they deflect light through gravitational lensing. The analysis provides more precise estimates of the Universe's composition and brings scientists closer to solving this puzzle.

It works like Google Maps. You open the app and a map appears that allows you to identify "target-rich" environments. When the user taps on one of the marked points, information about the person appears: name, photo, date of birth, and a special number assigned by the government.

Italy is preparing for the Winter Olympics, to be held from February 6 to 22 in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezo, and many international delegations have already arrived in the country. Milan is being fortified to ensure maximum security for the athletes in the coming weeks. But what no one expected is that, along with the extensive police deployment surrounding both cities, there will also be members of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), just as these agents are under scrutiny for recent raids against immigrants and the violence of their operations. have cost the lives of two US citizensRenee Good and Alex Pretti, on the streets of Minneapolis.

It's not uncommon these days to see dystopian films and series depicting the United States in the throes of civil war or where chaos reigns and the law of the strongest prevails. Unfortunately, the raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol (CBP) to indiscriminately capture immigrants are bringing these apocalyptic scenarios, where police violence is the norm, ever closer. The cold-blooded murder of Alex Pretti, a nurse protesting the raids in Minneapolis, has sparked a wave of outrage across the country. This incident follows the shooting death of Renee Nicole Good while she was arguing with an officer without leaving her vehicle. It also comes on the heels of the scandal surrounding the arrest of five-year-old Liam Ramos, who was taken home from school and used as bait to lure his father home.

ICE (this police force that Trumpism has transformed into death squads, with carte blanche to kill and kidnap civilians with virtually no explanation) is commanded by a character named Greg Bovino, an idiot who likes to dress up as a Nazi (he walks around in a coat that imitates those worn by Boss officers, and with a military-style haircut). Starting with his surname, so tempting, Bovino could be a kind of unintentional self-caricature, a histrionic character who, more than a fascist, seems like a caricature of one: physically, he even resembles Lockjaw, Sean Penn's character in One battle after anotherBut Bovino is dangerous, to the point of becoming the public face of one of the most disturbing aspects of Trumpism: its civil war impulse.

The day after anti-immigration agents arrested little LiamRebecca (a pseudonym) was in her classroom waiting for the children to arrive so classes could begin. "It was around 8:45 a.m., and some of the students were already having breakfast. We heard a lot of whistling from the street, which is what the neighbors do when ICE arrives, and the code red announcements started blaring over the school's loudspeaker." At that moment, Rebecca didn't yet know that the alarms were sounding because an ICE team had positioned themselves at the entrance of the building, trying to follow the children inside. Suppressing her nerves, she gathered her five-year-old students and followed protocol: block the door, close all the curtains, turn off the lights, and line up with all the children against the wall farthest from the door. It's the same procedure activated when there's an active shooter inside the school. "It was surreal; at that moment, I thought there was a shooting. But it turns out it was ICE."

Donald Trump's intimidation campaign against the immigrant population It has no limits: it doesn't stop for people with legal status, it ignores the lack of warrants, and apparently, it has no age limit either. Agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained a five-year-old boy at the entrance to his home in the Minneapolis metropolitan area as he returned from kindergarten. The boy, Liam Conejo Ramos, has been held at an immigration and customs enforcement facility in Texas with his father since Tuesday, the day they were arrested.

Six Minnesota prosecutors have resigned amid pressure from the Justice Department to investigate the ideological ties of Renee Nicole Good's widow. the woman killed by ICE in Minneapolisand the refusal to open a case against the immigration agent who opened fire. The officer has been identified as Jonathan Ross, a veteran who served in Iraq as a member of the National Guard.

The murder a few days ago in Minneapolis of poet and activist Renee Nicole Macklin Good at the hands of ICE agents (the US law enforcement agency supposedly in charge of controlling illegal immigration; in practice, nothing more than death squads) is a blatant case of terrorism. A voice that legitimately and democratically disagreed with the government, and that exercised its right to publicly express this disagreement, was silenced forever by force of arms. To justify the crime, the Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, accused Macklin Good of being, precisely, a "terrorist." Trump claimed that the agents had acted in self-defense, since she "had attacked them." The repulsive writer and Vice President JD Vance insisted on the same idea, suggesting that the victim accelerated her car because she "was not innocent." The video of Macklin Good's execution clearly shows the opposite: she starts the car, intending to leave, and one of the officers shoots her three times in the head at point-blank range. The Trumpian media has dedicated itself to trying to defame Renee Nicole Macklin Good with lies and by bringing up issues related to her private life. For the most fanatical sector of today's society (in the United States they're called MAGA; here they don't have a specific name, but they're the same), a woman being a lesbian, or being said to be one, makes it more acceptable for a police officer to shoot her.

The loss of glaciers worldwide is usually calculated in terms of square kilometers or ice volume. But each individual glacier, however small, is unique. "It might be a historical and cultural site, a tourist attraction, or a symbol of regional identity. Its loss might not impact sea levels or water resources, but it can have a very significant local impact," says researcher Lander Van Tricht of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich). Some studies suggest that We have already lost 10% of the world's glaciers due to the climate crisisNow Van Tricht is leading a study, published this Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change, which predicts the number of glaciers that will be lost this century based on various degrees of global warming.

Between 2022 and 2024, the largest loss of glacial mass ever recorded occurred. Glaciers are disappearing around the world at a very alarming rate. and, according to reports from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS), the so-called perpetual ice In many regions, it will disappear completely before the end of the 21st century. This will lead to a "cascade of knock-on effects," warns the WMO.