We use them almost every day: posters, stickers, double-sided tapes. When we apply them to a surface, they adhere thanks to the viscoelastic properties of the adhesive material and the quality of contact between adhesive and surface. However, since no real chemical bonds are formed, themembership is not permanent and as time passes it tends to reduce, to the point ...
AI generated image Many Italians, even educated ones, stumble upon phrases like “There are few” or “There is one for everyone”. It’s about expressions key they tend to be confused because their sound it’s a lot similar. According to the definition it is written there is (with apostrophe and accent) when it means “there is” or “exists”. It is used ...
New research conducted at Princeton University’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering opens a promising path towards a new generation of cementitious materialswhich can be used to create more resistant, safe and long-lasting buildings and infrastructures. At the basis of this innovation there is not a new cement or a new mixture, but it study of the structure of mother-of-pearl: ...
Today we hear more and more often about LLM (Large Language Models), or large language models. These are the artificial intelligence systems that are the basis of the functioning of the chatbots that we use every day for the most varied reasons: from ChatGPT to Gemini, passing through Claude, DeepSeek, Grok, etc. Each LLM has its own peculiarities and characteristics: ...
The nuclear fuel cycle includes all the industrial and technological phases aimed at producing electricity from uranium in nuclear reactors. The process begins with the operations of extraction and treatment of the uranium mineral, followed by the phases of conversion And enrichmentuntil manufacturing of nuclear fuel. Once removed from the reactor, the spent fuel can be reprocessed, in order to ...
Credit: Giles Laurent, CC BY–SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Crime and horror lovers: have you ever wondered what happens when an investigator finds a putrefied body? How did he get like this? There putrefaction it is one of the fundamental processes of decomposition of organic material after the death of an organism. The bacteria anaerobes (which do not need oxygen ...
You’re on the couch, with the credits of the latest TV series you were watching. The drama begins slowly, with an innocent question: “what could I watch now?”. We know what happens next: hours and hours of endlessly scrolling through a streaming catalog. Science defines it as “paradox of choice“: intuitively we think that having many alternatives makes us happier, ...
Credit: Al Faw Grand Port THE’At Faw Grand Port it is, to date, one of the most ambitious and compelling infrastructure projects on the entire global scene. Located in the Al-Faw peninsula, in the Iraqi province of Basra and near the source of the river Shatt al-Arabonce completed it will become the largest port in the Arab worldeven bigger than ...
Image edited with AI. During the Cold War the United States built a luxury hotel underneath large anti-atomic bunker capable of welcome everyone and 535 members of the Congress at the time. The structure chosen was the Greenbrier Hotel and it is estimated that the project, completed in 1962it cost approx 14 million dollars – equivalent to around 150 million ...
The “thumbs up” is a gesture that takes on different meanings depending on the country. Imagine that raise your thumb to say “ok” during a trip abroad and discover, to your surprise, that you have just offended your interlocutor. It may seem paradoxical, but many gestures that we consider intuitive or universal are not at all. According to studies on ...