The fruit of the Garden of Eden, eaten by Adam and Eveit wasn’t an apple. Or rather, the book of Genesis, which tells the story, does not specify what fruit it was and just talks about «tree of knowledge of good and evil». The idea that the fruit was an apple arose in the Middle Ages, probably because the word ...
Sahara dust storm over the suburbs of Lisbon, Portugal Yellowish skies and milky atmospheres: in recent years the increasingly frequent and imposing presence of Saharan dust above i European skies it has become a constant in our summers. This is not a simple and extemporaneous phenomenon of color, but the visible effect of a profound and structural mutation of atmospheric ...
“Video games train the brain”, a cliché, but also a question that neuroscientists have been asking themselves for years: a frequently repeated activity, such as playing a video game, can it really change the way the brain works? Playing is not trivial: you have to constantly and simultaneously follow what is happening, ignore useless stimuli, remember information, predict the next ...
Image generated with AI. In 1968 the chemist Spencer Silvera researcher at 3M in Saint Paul, Minnesota, was trying to synthesize a adhesive super durable for the aviation industry. The result was the exact opposite: a weak adhesive made of acrylic microspheres which, being spherical, touched the surface only in a few points. This reduced the contact area and therefore ...
The segment of the North Alfeo fault mapped with very high precision off the coast of Catania. Credit: AGU Researchers have succeeded for the first time in map at high resolution there North Alpheus fault on the bottom of the Ionian Man. The fault lies offshore Catania beyond 1500 km deep and extends for about 80 km. Thanks to specials ...
«I obliged them»; “I’m going to visit my parents and bring them some apples.” They are phrases that you may happen to say or hear said but which are what they are grammatically incorrect. Confusion is created in particular in the couple of pronouns The And there (to which they are added I, I, I And They): they are the ...
Image created with AI for illustrative purposes In 2026 in Italy they are already burned 47,942 hectaresThe 135% more compared to the average for the period 2006-2025, when on 22 July the hectares burned were approximately 20,329 hectares: these are the data reported in the EFFIS database of Copernicus (European Forest Fire Information System), the European fire monitoring system. According ...
Image generated for illustrative purposes only with AI. A digital photograph can occupy a few hundred KB, while another, apparently similar, can exceed 30 MB. The difference does not depend only on the visual rendering: the number of pixels, the amount of information associated with each of them and the system used to compress them come into play. The size ...
Credits: Sarafino Walking through one city during the Chinese New Yearit’s almost impossible not to be impressed by the presence of red everywhere. Lanterns, decorations, gift bags, clothes and decorations transform streets and homes into a sea of scarlet shades. In Chinain fact, the red it’s much more than just a color: it’s a symbol of prosperity, happiness, success and ...
Image generated for illustrative purposes only with AI The 6-digit PIN provided by the two-step verification that is currently employed on WhatsApp could be replaced. The platform, in fact, is working on the introduction of one alphanumeric password (therefore made up of letters and numbers) between 6 and 20 characters. At first glance it might seem like a marginal change, ...