The Huangjuewan Overpass, also known as “Panlong flyover”, is located in Chongqing, southwest China, and is considered the most complex highway intersection of the planet. Designed to solve the traffic problems of a constantly growing city, it is developed on 5 overlapping levels that intertwine like threads in a spider’s web. It is made up of 15 ramps – of ...
Image generated with AI. In the past few hours, a new chapter has been written in the TikTok “saga” in the USA. The Chinese social network has formalized an agreement that profoundly redesigns its presence in the United States, putting an end to a long phase of political and regulatory uncertainty. The company decided to move US operations to a ...
Those who have radiators in their home often hear that the heat pump is not for them. And so many give up from the start, convinced that they need to redo the entire system or install a traditional boiler again. In reality, the latest generation technologies are able to work at high temperatures and take advantage of existing radiators without ...
Legitimate calls coming from call center they will be soon identified by short three-digit numbers even when they make sales calls or send promotional messages. This innovation arises from a proposal fromAGCOMtheCommunications Regulatory Authorityand is designed for reduce aggressive telemarketing and be able to recognize at a glance who is contacting us. The idea is in fact to allow operators ...
Here’s how to cook a “perfect” egg in a scientific way: put the egg with the shell in a pan with boiling water (100 °C) for 2 minutes then move it into a bowl with water 30°C for another 2 minutes and repeat the cycle eight times for a total of 32 minutes. This procedure is called periodic cooking and ...
The icebreaker Laura Bassi. Credit: ENEA There icebreaker Laura Bassithe only Italian capable of operating at the poles, reached the Mario Zucchelli Station in Antarctica to carry out the 41st Italian research expeditionwithin the National Antarctic Research Program (PNRA). The mission, which began in October, will last four months and involves activities that include the transport of extracted ice cores, ...
There Italian language evolves, in step with technological development and changes in society: that’s why, among the neologisms included in the Book of the Year 2025 of Treccani, most of the selected terms have to do with the most important – or most discussed – facts of these 12 months, from sport to geopolitics, from gossip to the environment. From ...
Example of a scam SMS pretending to be from the CUP. They have been circulating for at least a month fake SMS messages that pass themselves off as official communications from the CUP (the Single Healthcare Booking Centre) and which, in reality, represent a dangerous attempt at phishing-type scams, which exploits a delicate context such as the healthcare one. The ...
Many times we find ourselves wondering “But was it that cold last year?” or “But was it this hot in other years?”. These are questions that can be answered by searching through the meteorological archives, and that’s what we did: we bring you the temperatures of December 19th scheduled for Milan, Rome, Naples And Palermocompared with those of the same ...
For centuries man’s dream has been to fly, and Franz Reichelt, the “flying tailor” of Paris, was no different from other men: in 1912 he built and wore a sort of parachute suit with which he jumped from the Eiffel Tower. The invention, however, did not work, and Reichelt died instantly. But to tell this story which in all respects ...