Milan and Cortina Gear Up to Co-Host 2026 Winter Olympics
The 2026 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, set to begin on February 6 and run until February 22, will be co-hosted by Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo in northern Italy, marking the first time the Winter Olympics have officially been shared by multiple cities, according to Time. More than 3,500 athletes are expected to participate in the games.
Milan, a financial and fashion hub, will host ice sports such as figure skating and hockey, Time reported. Cortina, a resort town in the Italian Dolomites, will host skiing, snowboarding, and other mountain events. The two cities won the bid in 2019, defeating a joint bid from Stockholm and Åre in Sweden, according to Time.
Meanwhile, in Kyiv, Ukraine, residents are facing a fourth brutal winter amid Russia's ongoing war, with repeated attacks on the country's energy grid leading to heat and electricity blackouts, NPR Politics reported. Candles have become a last resort for light when emergency power sources fail. "February ... is sobbing," the Ukrainian poet said, hinting at loss, according to NPR Politics.
In other news, research suggests that humans' exposure to high-temperature burn injuries may have played a key role in our evolutionary development, shaping how our bodies heal, fight infection, and sometimes fail under extreme injury, according to a new study by Conrad Duncan at Imperial College London and reviewed by Robert Egan, as reported by Phys.org. The control of fire dates back more than one million years.
A Nature News report discussed deep mantle melting, stating that the first melts generated in any solid-state mantle upwelling are kimberlitic CO2-rich silicate melts that form at about 250 km depth through oxidation of elemental carbon to CO2. Experiments forced a range of surface melts, derived from mantle plumes or broad upwellings (kimberlites, ocean island basalts and mid-ocean ridge basalts), into equilibrium with fertile mantle at adiabatic and super-adiabatic conditions at 7 GPa.
Rachel Treisman, an NPR reporter, provided a peek inside the Milan Olympic Village, describing it as a sprawl of modular buildings and high-rise apartments adorned with the flags and banners of participating countries, according to NPR News. Treisman was among the journalists who explored the village the week of the opening ceremony.
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