Image generated with AI. Under the sand dunes of Californian coasta tiny architect hidden for millennia has just been discovered. The scientists ofUniversity of Californialed by Emma Jochim and Jason Bond, have discovered that what for over a century was considered a unique species of trapdoor spider – Aptostichus simus – actually hid a second species: Aptostichus ramirezae sp. Nov. ...
An image of the exterior of the Grand Egyptian Museum. Credit: Egypt Museum, via It was inaugurated in Cairo on Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), the largest archaeological museum in the world and the largest institution dedicated to a single civilization, Ancient Egypt. After 30 years of waiting, the museum will be entirely open to the public from Tuesday: spread over ...
Today, at 00:59 (local time, in Italy 9.29pm), a violent earthquake of magnitude 6.3 it hit Afghanistana short distance from the town of Kholm. THE’epicenter was detected at 35 km from the city of Khulm10 km deep. The tremor was distinctly felt throughout the area, including the capital Kabul, but also in neighboring countries such as Tajikistanof theUzbekistan and of ...
There High Speed Railway Line “Lisbon-Porto” (Portugal) represents a crucial infrastructure project for the internal mobility of Portugal. With his 290 km in total lengththe ultimate aim is to drastically reduce train travel times within the country (going from the current 2 hours and 45 minutes to 1 hour and 15 minutes), thanks to increasingly widespread integration with other European ...
Credit: Toho Company Ltd., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The November 3the day the movie “Gojira” was released in 1954, fans celebrate the Godzilla Day. It’s not just a pop occasion: it’s an opportunity to ask a question that seems like a joke but instead opens very serious doors on the biology of giants, on the physics of fluids and ...
Particle accelerator. The particle accelerators they are among the most fascinating and complex machines ever built by man. They are used to study the subject in its most fundamental components, using electric and magnetic fields, accelerate particles causing them to collide. But they are not just tools for research: they have concrete applications also in medicine, industry and art. The ...
Is it better to wash by hand or in the washing machine? There is no single answer, it depends on a number of factors, such as the type of tissuethe degree and type of dirtyas long as we want to be efficient, hygienic or sustainable. We must not generalize too much, making the mistake of choosing either the washing machine ...
On the left a “crazy chestnut”, fruit of the horse chestnut and toxic to humans. On the right a common chestnut, fruit of the chestnut tree and edible. Image generated with AI. The custom of keeping one in your pocket chestnut said “crazy” to protect oneself from seasonal ailments, originates from Renaissance folklore, but It has no scientific basis. In ...
A rendering of what Al Maktoum airport will look like after the expansion. Source: Dubai Government The expansion project of theAl Maktoum airport to Dubai it is a mega infrastructure project, which claims to transform this airport into the largest in the world. Located in Jebel Ali, 37 km southwest of Dubai and opened on 27 June 2010, the airport ...
The Bersey Cab electric taxi. Credit: London Science Museum It seems like a 21st century invention, yet theelectric car it’s almost as old as the car itself. At the end of the 19th century, before petrol dominated the streets, vehicles such as the electric taxi Bersey Cab they were already circulating around London and Ferdinand Porsche himself was designing advanced ...