The death penalty exists practically forever. It was widely used in all ancient civilizationswhich they often used cruel methods to execute the condemned. Even in the centuries of Middle Ages and in the modern age almost no one questioned the legitimacy of the capital punishment, which was inflicted for numerous crimes. Only during theEnlightenment a current of thought against the ...
Let’s take a bottle of sparkling water and look at it from underneath. We will see five “petals” protruding downwards, which are missing from the bottoms of natural water bottles. It might seem like a purely aesthetic choice, but in reality it is the result of precise engineering needs. As shown by several scientific studies, including a 2006 review by ...
Credit: Unsplash Since i AI-powered chatbots they started answering users’ questions directly, the future of search engines has become one of the most talked about topics in the tech industry. In fact, these tools allow you to obtain explanations, comparisons and summaries without having to go through the traditional results page, made up of links, images and ads. It is ...
Map of northern Italy. In everyday language, when we talk about North we simply mean the North. Yet, the word North comes from Latin septem trioneswhich means literally “seven oxen”. A completely different image from the modern geographical one: in fact it does not indicate a cardinal point, but a group of stars very precisely, the seven brightest stars in ...
The map of storms arriving in Europe in the next 24 hours. After weeks of almost absolute hegemony of thesubtropical anticyclone, the meteorological scenario over Italy is undergoing a metamorphosis important. THE‘high pressurewhich locked the Mediterranean atmosphere in a bubble of static, muggy heat, began to give in along its northern perimeter. This first weakening has already triggered a series ...
The Strait of Bab el–Mandeb, marked with a red X. There truce between the United States and Iran it’s officially skippedwith mutual attacks now increasingly intense in recent days and the reintroduction of US naval blockade. Now the conflict, however, risks spreading beyond Persian Gulf: Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels just announced a maritime embargo against Saudi Arabia. To understand why ...
You’re watching Toxic Don’t miss out on more content from Geopop Michela and Alessio met six years ago through his partner. She works in a gluten-free food shop in Cisterna di Latina, he arrives at the weekend from Rome. It’s immediately afriendship true, even if it takes Michela a while to admit it to herself. Because Alessio, at the beginning, ...
A cyborg cockroach wearing a “diving suit”. Credit: Nanyang Technological University A group of researchers carried out a very particular experiment on a cockroach in a study published in Nature Communications. The research team of Fan and Sato, from Nanyang Technological University of Singapore have built and made the cockroach “wear” a small one “mutt” which allows him to breathe ...
If you have a WhatsApp account and you care about your privacy, there are some settings of the famous messaging application that you should change if you want to prevent your contacts, or even unknown users who have come into possession of your number, from using some data visible on your account to “spy” on you in some way. In ...
Artistic rendering showing the possible lights seen from space of real cities on the lunar surface. Credit: NASA International Moon Day (IMD) is the international day dedicated to our satellite, celebrated every year on the date that coincides with the anniversary of the Apollo 11 landingwhich occurred on July 20, 1969. However, the history of lunar exploration begins long before ...