It can happen, ed It’s more common than it seems: maybe we are still inexperienced, or we are simply lost in thought while we are at the petrol station, and we happen to make a mistake, putting diesel in our petrol car, or vice versa. Inserting the wrong fuel can cause serious damage to the engine, but the severity depends ...
The modern high jump was born in Germany in 18th century as a physical education activity and then developed over time as a real sport. It is part of the disciplines ofathleticsthe queen of Olympic sports, whose roots lie in Ancient Greece, where running, throwing and jumping put human physical prowess to the test. The high jump, present in both ...
Paying fines, health tickets, car tax or local taxes in a single payment may not be easy at all, especially when you are faced with unexpected amounts or those concentrated in the same period of the year. THE’IO app – the official platform for accessing digital services of the Public Administration – supports installment payment of these and other expenses ...
Goes up to The death toll is 12 and to 15 the number of missing people from the plane crash of UPS cargo flight 2976 which crashed yesterday on take-off from the Muhammad Ali airport in Louisville, Kentucky, causing a fire that spread for hundreds of metres. This was stated by the mayor of Louisville Craig Greenbergwhile the National Transportation ...
Damage from Typhoon Kalmaegi in the Philippines. Credit: TyphoonKPH, via The typhoon Kalmaegi hit the Philippines causing at least 140 dead and leaving more than 127 missing: Tinoas the tropical cyclone was nicknamed in the country, particularly hit the Cebu provincetouching land with the force of a category 2 hurricane (typhoon and hurricane, in fact, are two terms used to ...
Area of Campi Flegrei at greatest current seismic risk (blue line) and the area that would be completely evacuated in case of imminent eruption risk (red line). Credit: INGV To the Phlegraean Fields the distribution of earthquakes is changing: until two years ago seismicity was widespread throughout the caldera, while since then it has been concentrating in a precise area ...
There smallest bicycle in the world barely measures 8.4cm long and, incredibly, it works – as long as you have a good dose of technique and of balance. This curious object was made by Muscovite Sergey Dashevsky The September 15, 2019 and for this result he was awarded a Guinness World Records. Below is an incredible video of the inventor ...
In 1984 two chess legends faced each other in what would become the longest and most controversial match in the history of the World Chess Championships, which lasted from 10 September to 8 February 1985. On the Moscow table they competed Anatoly Karpov And Garry Kasparovtwo of the greatest players of all time. Karpov was the reigning champion, symbol of ...
The Excalibur underwater drone. Credit: Royal Navy For the first time a underwater drone unmanned he navigated relying not on external satellite signals but on a internal atomic clockcapable of keeping time with a precision comparable to that of the best metrology laboratories. The experimentation involves the Royal Navythe British company MSubs And Inflectiona company working on quantum technologies based ...
The padlock has been around since ancient times symbol of promise and dedicationand in Italy the custom of attaching them to bridges, fences, gates, monuments or public buildings as a promise of eternal love became famous after the film “I want you”, released in 2007. But already in the 1930s the TOItalian military cadets they attached the lock of their ...