The fruit that you see on the cover of this article comes called many different things depending on part of Italy where you are located: watermelon, calabash, melon, sandia, patacca and many others. In standard Italian, however, There is no “correct” way to refer to it: the various terms, in particular watermelon and cocomero, are accepted and used according to ...
Credit: Olympic Phryge © Paris 2024 The Olympics are about to begin of Paris 2024 and you may have come across a curious red mascot (with white and blue accents, recreating the colours of the French flag) with a triangular shape in two versions, Olympic and Paralympic, with the Paris 2024 logo on the chest. But what does it represent, ...
In this video we take you to one of the shipyards largest in the world, that of Fincantieri in Monfalconein the province of Gorizia, to show you all the work that goes into building a large ship. The surprising thing is that it is almost an artisanal job, because there is no assembly line, like for cars: each ship is ...
Yesterday it was made Apple Maps public beta available on the web. In other words, it is now possible to use Apple Maps by acting from a browser and not only from the official application of the service (available only on iOS, iPadOS and macOS). At the moment the Apple Maps interface is available in English only and works with ...
In the last few days, they have been created unjustified alarmism on the possible arrival of a geomagnetic storm and an international radio blackout for tomorrow Friday July 26, 2024 (but in reality, as we will see, no geomagnetic storm is forecast for Friday) according to observations from NASA’s Solar Dynamic Observatory. Many media outlets and newspapers have chosen headlines ...
Located in the far south of the Italian peninsula, the Calabria it is the wonderful land that forms the “tip” of our boot: the region, in fact, stretches out like an imposing catwalk between Sea Tyrrhenianto the west, and the Sea Ionianto the east and southeast.Exploring Calabria means immersing yourself in a wild and rugged land with an essence strongly ...
Would you ever have thought that the itchingthat annoying and unpleasant tingling sensation you feel protects from insect-borne diseases and infections, such as mosquitoes? Well yes, and what’s more we share this annoyance with other species, which by scratching themselves or moving their tails drive insects away. It can be triggered by chemical stimuli (such as foreign substances and allergens) ...
The “Fata Morgana” effect seems to make this ship float in the air, but it is only a mirage. There Mirage in question is not a legend, but a complex form of mirage which manifests itself along the horizon line of the sea (but also of land) with respect to the observer and which can be observed in some specific ...
Let’s say it right away: the theory according to which the Noon was invaded and plundered by the Northern regions led by the Savoy dynasty it has no historical basis. When the unification of Italy was achieved, the South was already in late condition compared to the Centre-North, both in political-social and economic terms. The absolutism of the Bourbonwho governed ...
Credits: ESA A new study published in Nature Communications suggests that Mercury may have a layer as thick as 18 km of diamonds at the boundary between the core and the mantle (although the uncertainty is quite significant: about 10 km). The results of the study, which used complex computer simulations, were conducted by researchers from China and Belgium coordinated ...