Anyone who has one gas cooker at home knows that, once turned on, i stove one is formed immediately blue/light blue flamevery different from the red/orange one generated by a candle or a wood-burning fireplace. We might think that the color of the flame depends on its fuel, which in the case of stoves it is typically methane gas or ...
AI generated image They exist in the world curious and almost surreal prohibitionsi (like that of chewing gum), but few are as unique as the forbidden to die to Longyearbyenin Norway, e on Itsukushima Islandin Japan. In Longyearbyen, the law prevents burial due to the permafrost, which preserves bodies and can encourage pathogens, while in Itsukushima religious tradition prohibits birth ...
Imagine walking in an autumn forest, with the humid air smelling of earth and leaves. Under your feet, a few centimeters above the ground, lies a treasure that shines not with gold, but with aroma: the truffle. Hidden deep in the ground, truffles blend with the roots of trees such as oaks or poplars, exchanging water, minerals and organic compounds ...
Plaque depicting Askel Sandemose. Credit: via Wikimedia Commons There Jante’s lawcodified for the first time in the novel “A Fugitive Meets His Tracks” by Askel Sandemose (1933), is a set of social norms that regulate behavior in Scandinavia, promoting humility, equality, modesty and solidarity, from the perspective that the community is more important than single individual. Individual pride and ambition ...
Inside our heads is the most complex network ever known: 86 billion neuronsconnected by trillions of called connections synapses. THE neurons they are the fundamental cells of the nervous system, they can be considered as the basic units of the brain that coordinate the functioning of the organism. They are highly specialized cells with a specific purpose: receive, process and ...
The strong ones emerge in the last few days fears for the stability of the 432 Park Avenue skyscraper in Manhattan (New York). The building, a streamlined one reinforced concrete tower of 425 m and 102 floors mainly used to house luxury apartments, appears to suffer from unusual structural issues – cracking phenomenon and presence of widespread cracks – raising ...
ChatGPT Atlas is the first web browser built entirely around ChatGPTdesigned by OpenAI to transform browsing into an interactive, dynamic and personalized experience. Unlike a normal search engine or a productivity extension, Atlas integrates artificial intelligence directly into the heart of the browser to allow the user to search for information more easily, thanks to the new integrated functions that ...
The CEPC (Circular Electron Positron Collider) is the future particle accelerator largest in the world than the China he decided to build to explore the deepest secrets of the universe. This is a long underground tunnel 100kmas the Rome ring road, designed to collide subatomic particles at speeds close to that of light and study the Higgs boson. The project ...
Image generated with AI. The astronomer Scott Shepard discovered an asteroid that was renamed 2025 SC79approximately 700 meterswhich orbits the Sun in just 127.5 daysplacing it third in the list of the fastest known asteroids in the Solar System (despite many reporting that it is the second fastest). The only fastest asteroids we know of are 2025 GN1 (114.7 days) ...
The rainfall map over Italy for today, October 23rd. Rainfall due to Storm Benjamin is clearly visible in France and the United Kingdom. Credit: ECMWF Italy is once again split in half from a meteorological point of view: if the Centre-North is experiencing the indirect effects of storm Benjaminwhich is especially striking these days France And United Kingdom with winds ...