There is no celebration of New Year’s without a nice “bang” made by opening a bottle of sparkling wine. Behind that characteristic “pop”, however, lies all the complexity of fluid dynamics, the physics of fluids: did you know, for example, that the “bang” of uncorked sparkling wine is a miniature version of the sonic boom produced by planes breaking the ...
Have you ever wondered why, when let’s fry something, our clothes become so impregnated with this smell, with the it smells like fried food that can stay on sweatshirts or t-shirts for several hours? It all has to do with the chemical processes that occur during the cookingwhen i fats contained in the oil undergo an oxidation process in which ...
Generated with AI. Celebrating with “caviar and champagne” is synonymous with a rich, refined and expensive party, but the origin of this product and the reason for such a high cost of the famous black beads in a jar are not always known. These are exactly the eggs of a fish: lo sturgeona fish that reaches 8 meters, 1500 kg ...
In the last few days a is circulating video which quickly surpassed one million views on YouTube and is also being republished on other platforms. In the video a YouTuber convinces ChatGPT to shoot him via a humanoid robot, thus violating AI ethical rules. To do this, bypass the security barriers using a jailbreaking technique, a procedure to remove ethical ...
The 2025 It’s been a year full of changes and of great historical events: since the election of new Pope Leo XIV until the discovery of 3I/ATLAS – the third interstellar object ever observed in history –, from theft to Louvre per mega blackout in Spain. Let’s look back together at the 10 most discussed news stories of these 12 ...
The classic “bangs” we hear on New Year’s Eve are the result of a reaction of explosion extremely rapid: a real “boom” coming from those candles, whether large or small, called firecrackers. Inside them there is a mixture of chemicals, including gunpowder, which, once ignited, burns quickly and violently producing large quantities of hot gases. Since the gases that evolve ...
The Cosmic Calendar it is one instrument created in the 1970s by the astrophysicist and popularizer Carl Sagan, and revisited by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson in the documentary Cosmos – A spacetime OdysseyFor orient oneself in the vast times of the universe. Without going into complex astronomical calculations and formulas, today we know that from the Big Bang to today ...
In the last season of Stranger Things an interesting thing happens: the series stops, at least in part, to play only with the fantasy and tries to put order in his own mythology. The Upside down it is no longer just a dark parallel dimension as we imagined in the first seasons, but something more precise, more structured. And this ...
The traditions linked to New Year’s Eve et al January 1st they are many and diversified based on local customs. There are differences both in the various regions of Italy and around the world. Some of the most famous – such as wearing the color red, eating certain foods because they are considered auspicious, kissing under the mistletoe and paying ...
There is a debate, especially among enthusiasts, according to which the white chocolate it wouldn’t be “real chocolate”. The reason would lie in its composition, very different from that of dark and milk chocolate. The latter in fact contain the whole cocoa massincluding cocoa solids, which give the product its dark color el’bitter characteristic. These components include polyphenols, alkaloids such ...