Ecology

Toll booths on the motorway, goodbye to the barriers: how barrier-free free flow payment works and where it is active

Toll booths on the motorway, goodbye to the barriers: how barrier-free free flow payment works and where it is active

The free flow it is a motorway toll collection system that allows the vehicle not to stop and to be recognized through specific portals installed along the route. This technology, already operational in some areas of Lombardy and Piedmont, is spreading and It’s changing the way tolls are processed and paid. For those who use Telepass or similar mobility services, ...

The bond created between humans and AI: the new study on perceived emotional support and risk of isolation

The bond created between humans and AI: the new study on perceived emotional support and risk of isolation

It’s becoming normal: thank the AI ​​assistant on the phone, vent to him or describe an emotional/sentimental problem to receive suggestions and seek relief. I mean, what’s happening is, even though we know they’re just programs, we settle with them intimate bonds. A new study, published in the journal Technology and Societyexplains something more to us than what we already ...

Why Masaru Emoto's theory of emotional memory of water is disproved: the shape of crystals

Why Masaru Emoto’s theory of emotional memory of water is disproved: the shape of crystals

Everyone likes to hear “I love you”, “you’re beautiful”, while no one likes to be called an idiot. Second Masaru Emotoa Japanese pseudoscientist, even water has these “emotional” preferences and would react to our words and “intentions” creating different ice crystals depending on what we tell her. Obviously it is one hoax which has been around since the nineties and ...

How to see stereograms by looking beyond the image: from the easiest to the most difficult

How to see stereograms by looking beyond the image: from the easiest to the most difficult

Example of stereogram. If you concentrate, you will see a shark appear. A stereogram it’s there combination Of two two-dimensional images which, if you look at it right, there they appear three-dimensionalperhaps revealing a hidden image with particular practical applications. Their operation is inspired by the way ours brain determines the depth of a scene by combining the image received ...

Yellow weather warning in the North after the heat waves: strong storms in the North from Thursday, hot in the South

Yellow weather warning in the North after the heat waves: strong storms in the North from Thursday, hot in the South

Strong worsening in the North since Thursday 20 August. Source: ECMWF charts The week continues with a complex atmospheric dynamic. The recent passage of a ripple of cooler currents along the eastern sectors of the Peninsula has favored a slight temperature dropparticularly noticeable on the Adriatic side and in part of the Centre-North. However, this is a limited variation: temperatures ...

Ultralight disappeared in Calabria with 2 people on board: what happened and the searches in the Cosenza area

Ultralight disappeared in Calabria with 2 people on board: what happened and the searches in the Cosenza area

A Soar Aviation P2008 photographed at Wagga Wagga Airport, Australia, on 24 February 2019. Credit: Wikipedia They have been going on for several hours research for an ultralight aircraft left Capo d’Orlando, in the province of Messina, and headed for Sibari, in the province of Cosenza: it would have disappeared along the Cosenza Tyrrhenian Sea, in the Fuscaldo area, with ...

The sea in Italy is 1° warmer than 25 years ago: data on Mediterranean temperatures

The sea in Italy is 1° warmer than 25 years ago: data on Mediterranean temperatures

Every summer the same phrase returns to the beach: “The sea is warmer this year, it wasn’t like this once”. It is a widespread perception, but is it also a real fact? The short answer is yes: data from CNR, ENEA, INGV and the European program Copernicus show that the Italian seas, including the Tyrrhenian and Adriatic, have warmed measurably. ...