A new one has been discovered thermophilic amoeba named Let’s set fire toeba cascadensis (“fire amoeba of the Cascades“), isolated in the warm waters of Lassen Volcanic National Park (California, USA). This microorganism is capable of replicating up to a temperature of 63°Cexceeding the previously hypothesized upper limit for eukaryotic life. The finding is reported in an ongoing study pre-primt ...
Earthquake in Japan measuring 7.6. A strong one earthquake of magnitude 7.6 hit the Japan at 11.15pm (local time, 3.15pm in Italy) yesterday. According to the USGS, the epicenter has been located at seaabout 70 km from the coast of Misawa (Aomori Prefecture), one depth Of 44km. The Japan Meteorological Agency initially issued a tsunami warning of a higher level, ...
In the riddle of the pirates and the 100 coins, they are there five pirates very intelligentperfectly rational and very greedy that they must divide a chest containing 100 gold coins. The captain is the first to propose a strategy of dividing the treasure and all the pirates, including him, can vote. If the proposal is rejected, the captain is ...
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 9th scheduled for Milan, Rome, Naples And Palermocompared with those of the same ...
Image generated with Ai. The Jellyfish Lake it is one of the most unusual places in Palau: an isolated marine basin, located on theEil Malk Islandwhere millions live golden jellyfish, whose sting is (almost) painless for humanseven if they have not completely lost the stinging cells that they use to hunt. It is a unique place in the world: a ...
In the mid-sixteenth century a group of Genoese moved to the island of Tabarkaa short distance from the coast of Tunisia, to cultivate coral and control the trade route. Before them, for four hundred years, the island had been the territory of the Pisans. At the end of the eighteenth century, the Genoese left Tabarka because the coral had run ...
According to a survey conducted by Libreriamo – digital media dedicated to culture – 7 out of 10 Italians (68%) would fail or at least be sent back to a test grammar Italian. Among the grammatical and spelling errors, there is one in particular that shows no signs of dying, the public enemy number one of the boot: theapostrophe. The ...
Image edited with AI. In the collective imagination the Electric cars are an extremely recent technologybut historically the electric motor arrived much before the thermal one. The correct timeline is in fact this: invention of the electric motor, discovery of the first productive oil field, invention of the internal combustion engine. 1832, Robert Anderson invents the “Electric Carriage” The central ...
Generated with AI. An ancient saying that is still very famous, widespread in various parts of Europe, claims that people of noble origin have the “blue blood“, different from that of normal people. If the origin of this adage has typically human and imaginative roots, In nature there really are animals with blue bloodlike the horseshoe crab, a characteristic common ...
Source By Zairon – Own work, CC BY–SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=52387844 Pyramiden is a former mining settlement dating back to the Soviet era, today considered one of the ghost town best preserved in the world. Located on the island of Spitsbergen, the only inhabited island of the Svalbard islands, about 1000 km from the North Pole, it is a place suspended ...