The smartphone cases they were created to satisfy a very specific need: to protect the device from scratches and falls. When we completely wrap a phone with a cover, however, we also add a layer of material between the device and the external environment, and this can affect how heat is dissipated. Here the question that is the theme of ...
When we close our eyes, that “dark” we see is not black. It seems to be, but if you really pay attention what you perceive is a dusty dark greycrossed by small light dots that come and go. It even has a name, Eigengraua German term literally meaning “intrinsic grey“. It is the color that our visual system “manufactures” when ...
SKA Project Development Office and Swinburne Astronomy Productions, CC BY–SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) it is not just a radio telescope, but one of the most ambitious engineering feats in human history. Divided between the desert of Karoo (South Africa) and the region of Murchison (Australia)this project aims to create a collection surface equivalent to ...
Credits: Petar Milošević, via Wikimedia Commons. Cursive writing is one of those skills that risk disappearing in the coming decades due to the technological changes that have occurred over the last seventy years and the increasingly frequent replacement of the pen with keyboards and touch screens. But how is it possible that a tool considered fundamental for schooling and education ...
Paris it is a city with a highly relevant architectural and engineering heritage. Among the most iconic structures, there is certainly the Tour Montparnassethe tallest skyscraper within the city center, located at 33 Avenue du Maine. 210 meters high, it rises 59 floors and is the tallest skyscraper within the administrative borders of Paris. So let’s take a closer look ...
Image generated with AI for illustrative purposes only. Many of us will have seen someone who, while waiting for theelevatorpress the «down» button because he would like to make the car go down towards the floor he is on. However, this is an error of interpretation (although very common), also documented in an analysis conducted by an MIT student, who ...
Zayed National Museum in Saadiyat Cultural District, Abu Dhabi The Prix Versailles has drawn up a ranking of most beautiful museums of the world in 2026. There are seven awarded structures, spread throughout the world: from the United Arab Emirates to the United States, passing through Uzbekistan, China and Japan. The awards, awarded every year at the UNESCO headquarters in ...
AI generated image. Write Why or coffee with the right accent is not a detail for purists: it is one of the first things that distinguishes careful writing from approximate writing. In Italian there are two graphic accents, acute (´) for the closed sound e serious (`) when it indicates an open sound, and they are not interchangeable: they indicate ...
Image generated with AI. The sizes of the planets are not to scale. Summer will open with a month full of astronomical events not to be missed, all observable with the naked eye from any part of Italy. It starts with “heavenly kiss” among the brightest planets in the sky, Venus and Jupiter, shortly after sunset on June 9th. Then ...
The cutting board it is perhaps among the most used utensils in the kitchen. For centuries it has always been in woodthen at the beginning of the 70s the first chopping boards were born plastic thanks to the availability of new synthetic polymers. From there a real debate began between modernity and tradition, with plastic often considered more reliable because ...