A Bologna bottle is a glass container with paradoxical properties: extremely durable on the exterior but catastrophically fragile on the interior due to rapid external cooling and slow internal cooling during manufacturing. First documented in Bologna, Italy around the 1740s, these bottles are primarily used in physics demonstrations and magic tricks rather than practical storage.
A project tracking errors in official Swiss weather forecasts from SRF (Swiss Broadcasting) across multiple cities including Bern and Zürich, comparing temperature and precipitation accuracy at various forecast lead times from September 2025 through September 2026.
An exceptionally strong El Niño has broken temperature records months before its expected peak, reaching 3.05°C and potentially peaking at 4.0°C by late 2024. Scientists warn this event is the largest in at least 1,000 years and will compound human-caused global heating, triggering extreme weather including wildfires, droughts, and flooding across multiple regions and potentially making 2027 the hottest year on record.