You come home from vacation and the plants are all limp and sad. First reaction: take the watering can. WRONG! The reason why plants wilt is related to a lack of water, but not always as you think. THE’withering it depends on a delicate balance between the water that the plant absorbs from the roots and that which is lost: ...
The Treasure of Villena. Credit: Por Descanocido – http://www.contestania.com/images/villena/tesoro.jpg, CC BY–SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6810517 In Spain, in Villena, one of the most important gold treasures from the Bronze Age in Europe and the oldest iron artefact ever found in the country was stolen. Thursday August 27around dawn, a group of thieves using a diversion he managed to sneak inside the MUVIthe ...
Earthquake of magnitude 3.2 in the province of Lucca. A shock of earthquake Of magnitude 3.2 was registered in the province of Lucca, today August 28th at 3.06pm. According to data reported by INGV (National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology) the epicenter of the earthquake was located 6 km north-east of Coreglia Antelminellia small village of about 5,000 inhabitants, with ...
Titian, Self-Portrait, circa 1562, oil on canvas, 96 × 75 cm, Berlin, Staatliche Museen, Gemäldegalerie. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons It was the end of the summer of 1576, and the plague was claiming victims in Venice: exactly on August 27, 450 years ago, the most illustrious of these victims died, the great Venetian Renaissance painter Titian Vecellio (Pieve di ...
NASA artist’s impression showing the emission of energetic particles from the Sun responsible for the formation of the heliosphere and their interaction with the Earth’s magnetic field (in blue). Credits: NASA/GSFC/SOHO/ESA. There climate history of the Earth it might have been influenced not only from what happens on our planet, but also from the history of the Sun and from ...
We really could live in a simulation like in the movie Matrix? According to mathematics we cannot rule it outas recently demonstrated in a study by the American theoretical physicist and mathematician David Wolpert of the Santa Fe Institute. According to the Simulation Theory (in English Simulation Hypothesis), Indeed, the universe we live in may be nothing more than a ...
Saharan dust seen by satellite on Thursday 27 August. Source: SAT24.com A veil between golden yellow and milky is enveloping the skies of Italy, coloring the panorama of the central-southern regions with an almost ghostly atmosphere. From Thursday 27 August, a massive Saharan dust cloud it is flying over our country, driven by high-altitude southern currents. This is not an ...
When we think about the effects of heat waves on the electricity systemthe first problem that comes to mind is almost always the same: the hotter it getsthe more we use air conditioners, the more increases electricity consumption. However, there is another, less intuitive aspect: just as energy demand grows, some power plants may be forced to reduce production. The ...
“Come on, I don’t believe it. I was just about to say that.” How many times has this happened to us? With a friend, with your partner or with someone we know very well. We can find ourselves laughing at the same time, finishing the sentence that the other hasn’t finished yet, or even having the same idea. We call ...
For decades, the China has been perceived in the Western imagination as the “copy factory”: the expression Made in China it was synonymous with poor originality and quality. But that era is over: within a few years, China has become one leading superpower in innovation and today it represents one of the global technological vanguards. The Chinese national rebirth, which ...