They are present in the world dozens of barriersconsisting of concrete walls or fences. Generally they are used for stop immigration or to prevent the passage of potentially hostile people And illegal goodslike drugs. Some walls, including the one between the United States and Mexico, are erected along the borders between the states; others are present in the territory of ...
The Interlagos Formula 1 circuit, via Wikimedia Commons The circuit of Interlagos it is located approximately 25km from the Brazilian metropolis of Sao Paulo. The track takes the name of Interlagos as its location sees it positioned in the middle of to two artificial lakes: the Guarapiranga and the Billings which in the past were used to bring water to ...
There online privacythe control of one’s data on the internet, is an increasingly central topic in the society we live in. This is because digital welcomes more and more data and information about us: from our online habits, to the medical records saved on our smartphone, through to photos of our latest holidays shared on social media and career updates ...
Miss a single night’s sleepwe know, can have catastrophic effects on ours Attention. A new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), released on Nature Neurosciencehighlights the neurological mechanisms underlying the disaster of cognitive abilities in sleep deprivation, revealing that the brain activates processes that resemble the non-REM sleep even while awake, making us have those collapses of attention ...
Clapping is a universal gesture which tells the story of humanity: from the instinctive call of primates to the sacredness of ancient rites, from the theater of Dionysus to Roman politics, up to today’s stadiums and social media. From the sacred ritual of theantiquity from the stages of modern theatre, to contemporary stadiums and squares, applause tells how human beings ...
Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) imaged from Italy. Credit: La Spezia Amateur Astronomers Association, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons There comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) it was certainly the most spectacular of the year as well as the brightest of 2025, having been above the naked eye visibility threshold in our skies for over 20 days with a suggestive green foliage. ...
“Good luck” is the most common wish to say “good luck” for example before a competition, an interview or an exam, to which one replies “Crepe il wolf” or just “die” to make sure that fate is truly favorable. The origin of the saying it is uncertainbut the most plausible explanations connect it to the world of hunting, to maritime ...
Although there are conflicting opinions, most studies on happiness in recent decades agreed on one point: happiness happiness it tends to be very high in youth, decline during middle age and then rise again in later life. A trend to “U” shapeIn short. The problem today is that we are observing a change in the trend of happiness. The research ...
The Campi Flegrei caldera seen from satellite. Credit: Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, via Wikimedia Commons The main earthquakes that occur near the Caldera of the Campi Flegrei due to the volcanic phenomenon of bradyseism are anticipated by a preparatory phase made up of precursor signals significant. To document it, in a study in the magazine JGR Solid Earthare researchers ...
On the right Wilhelm Röntgen, on the left one of the first photos he took with X-rays. It was the evening ofNovember 8, 1895 when, in a laboratory at the University of Würzburg, the physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen he randomly observed something extraordinary: a mysterious fluorescence that seemed to pass through matter. The next day, November 9, he began to ...