Imagine having a friend or motivational coach always available to you. Is called Markhe writes to you in the morning to ask you if you’ve trained, he reminds you of work deadlines and, over time, he starts asking you more and more intimate questions, like: “How are you dressed today?”. Marco doesn’t exist. It’s a AI Companiona pure artificial intelligence ...
The central panel of the Kakapel shelter, with all the decorative levels. Credit: Namono et al. In the district of Busiaat the foot of Mount Elgon in Kenya western, is located Kakapela shelter under rock granite and national monument since 2004. Its walls preserve one of the sets of rock art more complex thanEast Africa. The site was first described ...
Every year, smartphone manufacturers offer us new models which, although introducing interesting improvements, do not always represent such a qualitative leap as to justify the replacement of a device that is still perfectly functional. Changing your phone every two or three years, driven more by marketing than by real necessity, is something perfectly avoidable as long as you do some ...
The oven clock shows a certain time, the smartphone clock shows another. Why this difference? Many household appliances like ovens and microwaves do not use advanced synchronization systemsbut they rely on a surprisingly simple principle: counting the oscillations of the alternating current coming from the house socket. In Europe, alternating current oscillates nominally at 50Hzthat is, accomplishes 50 cycles per ...
The activity ai Phlegraean Fields remains modest: the latest weekly bulletin of the Vesuvian Observatory (INGV) records 21 earthquake shocks with a maximum magnitude of 1.9 in the period between 20 and 26 April 2026, compared to 14 in the previous week. The other parameters monitored also do not indicate significant changes: the bradyseism remains in line with recent weeks ...
Generated with AI for illustrative purposes only. The Somniosus microcephalusit Greenland sharkis the longest-lived vertebrate known on Earth capable of swimming in the freezing waters of the North Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean for 300 years. A feature that fascinates researchers in biology of aging. How does a heart beat for centuries? It must be a healthy heart, free of ...
How many times have we heard of the Normale di Pisa or the Sant’Anna as centers of Italian university excellence? Many. But did you know that from 2022, in the heart of Naples, there will be an excellence of this kind? Is called Southern High Schooland the name itself can be misleading: it is not a high school, nor even ...
The shopping cart it is one of the most widespread objects in the world, which we now use without even thinking about it. It was invented in 1937 by Sylvan Nathan Goldman for its supermarkets Humpty Dumpty in Oklahoma City and improved by Orla Watsonwhich added the basket and rear opening. The history of this object is also the history ...
Amateur photo of 3I/ATLAS taken with a Celestron EdgeHD 800 telescope on November 16. Credits: Satoru Murata, Wikimedia Commons. There interstellar comet 3I/ATLASdiscovered in July 2025 and already at the center of a media case due to the statements of Avi Loeb on its alleged alien origin, widely denied by the scientific community, continues to prove of enormous scientific interest ...
The streets and parks of many Italian cities are invaded these days by “spring snow”, those white puffs that resemble cotton that fly out of control. But what is it? Often confused with “pollens” and called “poplars” or “pioppini”, they actually are pappi and are used to transport with the wind poplar seedsa very widespread plant in the Po Valley. ...