Hackers are not always cyber criminals, and for the Accademia della Crusca the word “cybersecurity” should be written with an “i” therefore cybersecurity: after the attacks on the refrigerators of European supermarkets, we clarify a series of expressions used incorrectly on the web with the help of the expert Corrado Giustozzi. These days we are reading expressions like “hacker attack”“hackers” ...
An earthquake recorded by the NASA InSight probe reveals that some faults under the Valles Marineris canyon (3900 km long and about 600 km wide) can still move today. The discovery offers new clues about the geological evolution of Mars and its past. A new study published in Nature Communications he identified the presence of tectonic activity under Valles Marineristhe ...
Scars are a repair tissue made mainly of collagen, which forms when a wound passes the outermost layer of the skin and reaches the dermis. As the National Institutes of Health explain, collagen fibers are arranged differently and hair, glands and nerves are missing. A scratch on the finger disappears in a few days, a knee operation leaves a mark ...
Why in Italy is the first floor above the ground floor, while in the United States it coincides with it? The difference depends on numbering conventions developed over time. In Italyand in many other European countries, when someone answers the intercom, telling us that the studio is on the first floor, we know that we will have to face a ...
In the rock shelter of La Rochelle, in South Africa, two anthropomorphic figures created with the stencil technique, previously never documented in the rock art of Southern Africa, have been identified. Their chronology and authors remain unknown. Two small anthropomorphic figuresmade with one technique never previously documented in southern Africawere identified in the rock shelter of La Rochellenear the city ...
Firehawks are kites and falcons from Northern Australia which, according to Aboriginal and firefighters’ testimonies, carry lit twigs to spread fires and flush out prey. The only study, from 2017, is based on stories: videos and experiments are missing, and intentionality remains a hypothesis. THE firehawks (“fire hawks”) are birds of prey from northern Australia such as the black kite ...
A goat skin about 7,000 years old, found in the Cueva de los Murciélagos in Spain, has yielded one of the oldest genomes of domestic animals. The analyzes indicate a non-local origin of the goats introduced into the Iberian Peninsula during the Neolithic. A goatskin dating back to approx 7,000 years ago allowed us to recover genetic information on the ...
The Changtai Yangtze River Bridge, inaugurated last year in Jiangsu province, China, sets new world records in large infrastructure engineering: it is the cable-stayed bridge with the longest main span in the world (approximately 1,176 – 1,208 meters) and the largest combined highway and railway structure with a steel truss girder. The Changtai Yangtze Bridge (Changtai Yangtze River Bridge) is ...
Matteuccia da Todi, Umbrian herbalist and healer, was the first woman in Italy to be burned alive for witchcraft in 1428. Esteemed by the people and nobles, she was accused of infanticide, magical healing rites and trade in love potions. Its burning marked the beginning of the witch hunt. Matteuccia from Todi— known in subsequent centuries as “the Witch of ...
It’s no joke: there are also two heavyweights among the saints and gargoyles of the Milan Cathedral. This is how the unusual work of art desired by fascist propaganda to promote the cult of sport was born. Climbing among the spiers and pinnacles of the Milan Cathedral one would hardly expect to see them, but they are there two truly ...