Ecology

Why Sony's PS5 will cost €50 more from April 2: geopolitical instability and component price increases

Why Sony’s PS5 will cost €50 more from April 2: geopolitical instability and component price increases

Image generated with AI for illustrative purposes only. From April 2nd the prices of PlayStation 5 will increase compared to launch, going from the current €549.99 in Europe to €649.99, with similar increases also in the rest of the world. To understand why this is happening, we must consider a combination of economic, industrial and geopolitical factors that are redefining ...

Cirque du Soleil returns to Rome with OVO: behind the scenes of the circus show

Cirque du Soleil returns to Rome with OVO: behind the scenes of the circus show

We entered the behind the scenes of OVO, the show of Cirque du Soleil which brings the life of insects to the stage. Contortionists, tightrope walkers, trapeze artists frantically follow one another on stage dressed as crickets, cockroaches, spiders and a thousand other insects. And we asked ourselves: how it is built the most famous acrobatic and circus show in ...

The Amazon refund with the $51 check is a scam: why it seems real and how to defend yourself

The Amazon refund with the $51 check is a scam: why it seems real and how to defend yourself

Image generated with AI for illustrative purposes only. A fake $51 check who arrives home, accompanied by a formal letter and references to US institutions: this is how a new attempt begins overpayment scamalready renamed as the Amazon fake refund scam. By analyzing the phenomenon, we see how scammers combine authentic information – such as a real-life lawsuit against Amazon ...

What the ancient Egyptians ate for breakfast: spelled bread, beer, onions and garlic

What the ancient Egyptians ate for breakfast: spelled bread, beer, onions and garlic

Loaves dating back to the 14th century. to. C., kept in the Egyptian Museum of Turin and coming from the tomb of Kha and Merit. Credit: By Museo Egizio In Turin (IT), CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=131692220 Egyptian society was founded on precise agricultural rhythms and a simple diet. Even if the Egyptians they didn’t know the modern concept of “breakfast”, intended as ...

Cooking pasta with hydrochloric acid and caustic soda: the chemical experiment

Cooking pasta with hydrochloric acid and caustic soda: the chemical experiment

From a chemical point of view, the cooking salt (sodium chloride – NaCl) is nothing more than the neutralization product of a strong acid (hydrochloric acid – HCl) and one strong base (sodium hydroxide, commonly called caustic soda – NaOH). So the question came to me spontaneously: is it possible to boil pasta in a pan full of water where ...

The origin of the "roar" recorded in the Gran Sasso in 2023 revealed: it was variations in water pressure

The origin of the “roar” recorded in the Gran Sasso in 2023 revealed: it was variations in water pressure

The origin of the has been discovered loud “boom” registered in National Laboratories of Gran Sasso (LNGS) of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN): its causes of the event, which occurred during the night between 14 and 15 August 2023, remained unknown for a long time, but now researchers from INFN, INGV (National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology) and ...