Researchers have finally found evidence that the Silverpit Cratera depression approximately wide 3km and located beyond 400 m deep underground North Seawas created bymeteorite impact more than 40 million years ago. The celestial body, with a diameter of approx 160 mequal to approximately one and a half times the length of a regular football pitch, would have impacted the earth’s ...
The fluorinepresent in many toothpastes in concentrations of a few hundred parts per million, protects the enamel of our teeth making it more resistant to attacks by acidic compoundsthus preventing tooth decay. These are formed, for example, when bacteria normally present in the oral cavity (such as Streptococcus mutans) metabolize the sugars we ingest in the diet, transforming them into ...
The Justice Commission of the Chamber of Deputies has approved an amendment to bill on sexual violence to include the principle of mandatory consent, marking a significant change from previous law, which focused on physical coercion or threats. The amendment was presented by the parliamentarians Michela Di Biase (Pd) e Carolina Varchi (Brothers of Italy) with the support of party ...
Italy is the third country in the world for gold reserveswith a heritage that is around 2,452 tons of gold and an estimated value which, according to current prices, exceeds 300 billion euros – about the 13% of GDP Italian. Almost all of these reserves are made up of gold bars, kept partly in the Rome headquarters of the Bank ...
When in the 2013 there Apple he introduced OSmany were surprised: for the first time, the new operating system for Mac it was not named after a big cat. Tradition, that of using names of big cats, which over the course of over a decade saw numerous animals “parade”, including Cheetah, Jaguar, Tigeruntil you get to Mountain Lion. He intervened ...
Almost two meters tall, up to 80 kg in weight, sharp claws and beak: the cassowary it is one of the most impressive birds in the world together with the ostrich. It is part of the ratite group, to which other large birds such as ostrich, moa and emu belong. Commonly the cassowary is also considered the more dangerous for ...
In recent years, cities around the world are facing a increasingly evident change: sudden rains that become floods, scorching summers, landslides and increasingly frequent fires. Phenomena that once seemed exceptional are now part of normality and put territories and communities to the test. The causes are quite well known: the changing climate, disorderly urban expansion, and excessive land use that ...
THE’International Energy Agency (International Energy AgencyIEA) predicted that the peak of demand for fossil fuels (oil, gas and coal) will not be achieved by 2030. This is what emerges from the report World Energy Outlook 2025, which revised the forecasts for 2023, when the Agency highlighted how the global consumption of fossil fuels would have reached its peak in 2030and ...
“Artificial intelligence” refers to the ability of machines to imitate human functions and behaviors such as learning, the ability to reason and generate language, solve problems, make decisions – but also to understand human beings, simulating empathy and expressing “feelings”. This happens thanks to LLM“large language models”, which, thanks to training on billions of texts and conversations, are able to ...
Rook, knight, queen, king and pawns: most chess pieces are inspired by objects, people and animals that we all have in mind. But thebishop what does it represent instead? It is one of the most important pieces on the board, capable of traveling any distance diagonally, but unlike all the others its origin is often unknown. THE’bishopin general, represents the ...