Have you ever wondered what the probability of being hit by a meteorite? According to a study conducted by Professor Stephen A. Nelson of Tulane University of Louisianawe talk about 1 chance out of 1,600,000an event about 106 times rarer than being struck by lightning. Yet, for Ann Elizabeth Hodgesthis probability has come true! This story begins at 6.46pm November ...
They have been found traces of the eruption of Vesuvius which in 79 AD destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum on the seabed of the Tyrrhenian Seaoff the coast of Calabria a hundreds of kilometers from the volcano and beyond 600 m below sea level. This was revealed by the studies carried out by the University of Palermo in collaboration with the ...
Image generated with AI. The submerged cave system Ox Bel Haa Quintana Roo, in Mexico, it is the longest in the world: with itsthe 524.108 km of extension, this labyrinth of (mainly fresh) water is even larger than previously thought until last year. Being a system of submerged caves, the Ox Bel Ha – which in the Mayan language means ...
Every time we ask how old a cat is, we are actually asking a double question: on the one hand we want to know the chronological ageon the other hand we want to understand “who” we have in front of us, that is, why there are eleven-year-old cats who jump like acrobats, and nine-year-olds who start to slow down. Veterinary ...
Credit: ESA/ATG medialab Space activities are not just observing space, but also observe the Earth from space. Terrestrial monitoring has a wide range of applications ranging from environmental and climate issues to geopolitical and military ones. On the occasion of the 2025 Ministerial Council of the European space agency we had the opportunity to talk about it with Simonetta Cheliresponsible ...
Usain Bolt he redefined the limits of athletics and biomechanics by running i 100 meters in 9″58 at the 2009 world championships at the Olympiastadion in Berlin. August 16 of that year is a date that marked the history of sportand in which science had to stop to study and observe. In that race, Bolt touched one maximum speed of ...
An American Airlines Airbus A320. Credit: Acroterio, CC BY–SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Airbusthe world’s largest aircraft manufacturer, required an urgent software update for approx 6,000 planes of the family A320 globally. This is the most impressive recall in the history of the French company, founded in 1970. The decision preventative it was taken following an accident on a flight ...
New Google Maps interface with Gemini integrated. Credit: Google. The integration of Gemini’s generative artificial intelligence within Google Maps navigation services is happening these days. The Mountain View giant, in fact, has started deploying Gemini within Google Mapsoperation that progressively replaces the previous Google Assistant with an advanced linguistic model, capable of interpreting complex requests and providing proactive assistance. This ...
Which is the largest number in the world? As we know, this is a question that actually doesn’t make much sense, given that if there were a number larger than all of them, we could always overcome it by adding 1. However, there are some large numbers that compete for the title of the largest number ever “invented”, that is, ...
We are constantly surrounded by digital suggestions: every time we access a streaming platform or visit a e-commercesome algorithm based onartificial intelligence is working for us to curate the selection of content we find in front of us, be it digital content, products to purchase, and so on. This system, technically defined recommendation engineis based on the analysis of big ...