Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona What is theorigin of life on Earth remains one of the most complex questions that science has not yet found an answer to. A new study published in the journal PNAS tries to shed light on training processes of some prebiotic molecules, i.e. the “progenitors” of the organic molecules of living things. This new research expands ...
Generated with AI Let’s close our eyes and think about Jamaica: crystal clear beaches, sun, the notes of Bob Marley in the background…”Everything is gonna be alright“… and one bobsled team speeding down an icy track at full speed. Wait, what do you mean? Yes, Jamaica has an Olympic bobsled team and its history is truly curious. On the island ...
How many times, during the winter, did we complain about the bitter cold as soon as the thermometer touched 0°C? Yet, in Antarcticatemperatures well below zero are everyday life: but have you ever wondered what the lowest temperature ever recorded on Earth? Until a few years ago, the record was –89.2 °Creached on 23 July 1983 at the Russian base ...
Arianna Fontana in Milan Cortina. Credit: Los Juegos Olímpicos via From the Turin 2006 Winter Olympics to the Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympics, one way. The career of the skater Arianna Fontana it is a contemporary fairy tale, a common thread that has united generations through records and memories in a sport, lo short tracksin which speed and balance, physical and mental, ...
The Sanremo Festival, officially Italian song festivalis the longest-running television singing competition in the world and an icon of Italian tradition, born in the context of the social and cultural changes that affected Italy in the 1950s. Initially held in Casino of Sanremo (and from 1977 in Ariston Theatre), a Ligurian town in the province of Imperia which at the ...
There Hatta hydroelectric power station it is one of the United Arab Emirates’ most ambitious interventions in the field of renewable energy. This is the first pumped hydroelectric power station (pumped storage hydro power plant) of the region and is surrounded by the Hajar mountains, 4 km from the city of Hatta and approx 140 km from Dubai. From the ...
Carthaginian elephants at the battle of Zama (202 BC), in an illustration from the late 19th century. Credit: By Henri–Paul Motte – Das Wissen des 20.Jahrhunderts, Bildungslexikon, Rheda 1931, Public Domain. Over some archaeological excavations to Cordobain the Spain southern, archaeologists have found a very particular context, almost certainly linked to a war episode which occurred approximately 2200 years ago. ...
The pheromones are real odorous messages that cats produce to communicate with their peers: they communicate who they are, where they have been, if an environment is safe, if another cat is a friend or rival. They are such powerful signals from influence the behavior of those who perceive them: for example, females in heat use them to attract males ...
We are used to imagining invertebrates as small and insignificant creatures – those we usually encounter in everyday life rarely exceed a few centimeters. But some species are actually capable of achieving it impressive dimensions, capable of competing — despite the lack of an internal skeleton — with many vertebrates. The colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) – with a weight that ...
Credits: André Karwath via Wikimedia Commons. The Italian language is gourmet: this can also be seen in the use of food expressions to define people. Among all the foods that populate the figurative lexicon, the salami occupies a place of its own. Telling someone “you’re a salami” is one way to describe behavior or cognitive abilities of the person you ...