King Salman Park, Saudi Arabia, compared to Central Park, New York. Image generated with AI. THE’Saudi Arabia has initiated a vast and ambitious plan urban regeneration of the capital, Riyadhfocusing decisively on the valorisation of green areas. Among the most significant projects, the one presented in 2019 stands out King Salman Park: the urban park, conceived as a multipurpose place ...
A new study published in Current Biology by a team of researchers led by Jung-min Oh and Ken-ichi Amemori revealed the brain mechanism that regulates our ability to act in adverse conditions. The driving force behind the work was to answer why there is we block when faced with a difficult taskeven if we aspire to the final prize. It’s ...
Credit: Politikaner/NASA World Wind, Public Domain The researchers managed to map in detail one of the largest underwater landslides of the world, the Stad Slidein the Norwegian Sea. The “mega landslide”, 360 m thick, was triggered well 400,000 years agoprobably due to an earthquake; his volume equal to 4300 km3 and his extension of 46,500 km2comparable to that of Switzerland, ...
Generated with AI The “home track”, the challenging one Stelvio di Bormiogave the first two medals of the Italian Olympic expedition in the downhill: a splendid one silver for Giovanni Franzoni – at his first Olympics – and a bronze for the veteran Dominik Parisbehind only the Swiss Franjo Von Allmen. A dream start in the queen discipline of alpine ...
We all associate February with Carnivala holiday still very much felt throughout the peninsula. However, there are some cities in which this anniversary becomes an evocative celebration: this is the case of the Carnival of Venice. The city is filled with pancakes, costumes and above all masks. Masks are a tradition of Venetian craftsmanship and there are many types, among ...
When iron reacts with oxygen, a series of compounds are formed that accumulate on the metal surface, giving rise to what we know as rust. The best home methods for eliminating it include mechanical removal via abrasion and the use of chemical-based reagents acidssuch as citric and acetic acid present in lemon juice and in thewhite vinegarwhich interact with rust ...
Here is the challenge that the Japan decided to tackle: transform an idea of Peter Glaser, which seemed too expensive and complex in 1968, into a concrete technology, capable of providing clean and continuous energy to the Earth. As? Capturing the sunlight not with the panels on the roof of the house, but directly into spacewhere the Sun never sets ...
Civic participation does not automatically grow with digital. This is shown by ISTAT data on Permanent population census 2024: 87.3% of older families responded to the questionnaire, compared to 75% of younger ones. A fact that denies the idea of participation driven above all by the new generations. The difference is not so much in the willingness to participate, but ...
Spotify is rolling out an update to its app that will allow you to translate song lyrics even when you are offlineintegrating this innovation into a broad rethinking of the “Texts” function. Users will not only be able to have theaccess to texts in offline mode (currently only concerns Premium plan subscribers), but they will also be able to read ...
Generated with AI On the Italian Journal of Paleontology and Stratigraphy the discovery of new fossil remains on the Bergamo Alpsbelonging to Macroplacus raeticusa marine reptile lived approx 200 million years ago. This species, until now, was known only through fossils found in the Bavarian Alps. The fossil was found by Pio Carlo Brizzi in 2010 in the locality of ...