The SLS rocket of the Artemis II mission on the launch pad. Credit: NASA There is less and less left until the launch of Artemis IIwhich could happen on April 2, 2026 at 00:24 Italian (18:24 April 1 local time) in a 2-hour launch window. NASA mission will return humans to orbit around the Moon after more than 50 years. ...
Jannik Sinner. ATP Tour Twitter account After the triumph in the Indian Wells Masters 1000 in the final against Medvedev, Jannik Sinner completed the “Sunshine Double” – the Sun’s double on American hard courts – also winning the Miami tournament, beating the Czech Lehecka in the last act. All without losing a set in 12 matches – it had never ...
We use them almost every day: posters, stickers, double-sided tapes. When we apply them to a surface, they adhere thanks to the viscoelastic properties of the adhesive material and the quality of contact between adhesive and surface. However, since no real chemical bonds are formed, themembership is not permanent and as time passes it tends to reduce, to the point ...
AI generated image Many Italians, even educated ones, stumble upon phrases like “There are few” or “There is one for everyone”. It’s about expressions key they tend to be confused because their sound it’s a lot similar. According to the definition it is written there is (with apostrophe and accent) when it means “there is” or “exists”. It is used ...
New research conducted at Princeton University’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering opens a promising path towards a new generation of cementitious materialswhich can be used to create more resistant, safe and long-lasting buildings and infrastructures. At the basis of this innovation there is not a new cement or a new mixture, but it study of the structure of mother-of-pearl: ...
Today we hear more and more often about LLM (Large Language Models), or large language models. These are the artificial intelligence systems that are the basis of the functioning of the chatbots that we use every day for the most varied reasons: from ChatGPT to Gemini, passing through Claude, DeepSeek, Grok, etc. Each LLM has its own peculiarities and characteristics: ...
The nuclear fuel cycle includes all the industrial and technological phases aimed at producing electricity from uranium in nuclear reactors. The process begins with the operations of extraction and treatment of the uranium mineral, followed by the phases of conversion And enrichmentuntil manufacturing of nuclear fuel. Once removed from the reactor, the spent fuel can be reprocessed, in order to ...
Credit: Giles Laurent, CC BY–SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Crime and horror lovers: have you ever wondered what happens when an investigator finds a putrefied body? How did he get like this? There putrefaction it is one of the fundamental processes of decomposition of organic material after the death of an organism. The bacteria anaerobes (which do not need oxygen ...
You’re on the couch, with the credits of the latest TV series you were watching. The drama begins slowly, with an innocent question: “what could I watch now?”. We know what happens next: hours and hours of endlessly scrolling through a streaming catalog. Science defines it as “paradox of choice“: intuitively we think that having many alternatives makes us happier, ...
Credit: Al Faw Grand Port THE’At Faw Grand Port it is, to date, one of the most ambitious and compelling infrastructure projects on the entire global scene. Located in the Al-Faw peninsula, in the Iraqi province of Basra and near the source of the river Shatt al-Arabonce completed it will become the largest port in the Arab worldeven bigger than ...