Superquark
Season 25 Episode 8 - Piuro's little "Pompeii", the most spoken language in the world
Piuro, a small town that was buried by a massive landslide exactly four centuries ago and disappeared completely. It is located in Valchiavenna, in the province of Sondrio. Excavations have only begun in recent decades, and like a miniature Pompeii, a vanished world has resurfaced. Archaeologists have found the remains of a community frozen in place at the moment of the disaster. Work continues, and Paolo Magliocco and Giulia De Francovich went to see what they're uncovering. The world's first factory for handcrafted furniture, each unique and custom-made, but automatically Italian. Giovanni Carrada and Daniela Franco went to see how it works. What happened to the Station Master, that official in the red-hatted uniform who started the trains with a green paddle? He's still there, but he starts them with electronic commands. The Superquark reporters explore the safety systems of the Italian railway network, particularly the high-speed trains.
Episodes in Season 25
Bilingualism, robots in the operating room, and nuclear fusion
125 min
Prosthetics, speed on skis, and Italian "top guns"
133 min
Xylella, the brain-gut link, and private astronauts
121 min
A world without vaccines, underwater volcanoes, and cryptocurrency on the internet
127 min
Osteoporosis, stress, CO2 pollution
124 min
Gene technology against tumors, artificial steak, valve transplantation
119 min
Alzheimer's, fighting fires, energy from organic waste
123 min
Piuro's little "Pompeii", the most spoken language in the world
122 min
Pompeii, bacteria in the human body and fake news
120 min
