Rendering section of the project There Singapore Underground Science City (USC) it is one of the most ambitious projects in the country. It is a futuristic underground complex built at 30-80 meters deep, to be built with cutting-edge geotechnical techniques to host laboratories And data centers. Currently, however, it is worth clarifying that this is still a work in the ...
There Sardinian language it is mistakenly called dialect, a generally incorrect categorization, not dictated by linguistic reasons but by political and cultural issues. Sardinian is one independent language because it has its own grammara lexicon of distinct origin, an autonomous historical evolutionwhich does not derive from Italian but directly from Latin, and one written tradition. It is mainly divided into ...
The bees could orient themselves thanks to a real “biological compass” internal, based on tiny particles capable of perceiving the Earth’s magnetic field. This is suggested by a recent study published in Science Advanceswhich adds a vital piece to a story that has fascinated scientists for decades. The discovery, which occurred on 74 of the 96 bee species analyzed, could ...
WhatsApp announced numerous new features designed for improve the group chat experience. Whether it is the chat with work colleagues, the one with soccer friends or, again, the “classic” family chat, the new functions announced by the platform developed by Meta will be able to make communications simpler and more immediate. In this case, WhatsApp has introduced the possibility to ...
The license is needed for safety reasons The license is used for security reasons And traffic regulation: it is necessary that anyone who drives a motor vehicle is able to control it and knows the rules of road traffic. The first “licensees” were introduced at the dawn of the history of the automobile, in the 1880sbut precise regulations were only ...
Artistic rendering representing a possible probe approaching an asteroid that is about to hit the Earth. Image generated with AI (Gemini). In a recent study carried out by researchers from the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology of Beijing the proposed solution is to use a device nuclearcausing it to detonate beneath the surface of the asteroid. Such an explosion ...
In the south of France, in the region ofOccitania (department of Aveyron), the Millau Viaduct (Viaduc de Millau) represents one of the highest points of contemporary structural engineering. Designed and created by the French structural engineer Michael Virlogeux and by the English architect Foster, the work crosses the Tarn river valley ensuring the continuity of the A75 motorway (La Méridienne) ...
Antoine Caron, Dionysus the Aeropagite Converts the Pagan Philosophers, 1570–1580, Getty Museum. Public Domain (detail) When the Sun, Earth and Moon are perfectly aligned, the Moon projects a cone of shadow on the Earth’s surface, obscuring the Sun: this is what happens asolar eclipse, a rather rare astronomical and optical phenomenon. After 27 years of absence, and for only the ...
In the DNA of the people living today there are small fragments left inherited from ancient human groups of which we do not possess any genome. It’s about populations still without a precise identitythat’s why researchers call them “ghost”. A study published in Science identified these traces in all modern populations analyzed. An unknown first human lineage would have left ...
If ice forms on the walls of the refrigerator, it’s our fault! Let’s open the refrigerator every day, and each time a small amount of air present in our kitchen enters it. This air contains water vapor which upon encountering the cold walls of the fridge can change state, transforming into that thin layer of ice also known as frost. ...