A moment from the Opening Ceremony of the latest Winter Olympics, in Beijing in 2022 – via Wikimedia Commons When a country and one (or more) cities are chosen to host the Olympic Games, what begins the day after the assignment is a long and very complicated organizational process that involves many different bodies called upon to manage several billion ...
Have you ever wondered how they remove the caffeine from coffee beans, leaving the aroma and flavor intact? In this video, we show you the most used technique today: the use of Supercritical CO₂ a particular state of carbon dioxide, halfway between liquid and gas. But let’s take a step back: what is caffeine? It’s a natural alkaloida molecule that ...
Map Credit: Altaileopardo, CC BY–SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons The Indonesian archipelago is crossed by an invisible border, a line that is not found on any map, but which is practically impassable for nature. Is called Wallace Line and separates the Asian and Australian regions from an ecological and faunal point of view. The line owes its name to Alfred ...
Image generated with AI. A gigantic Russian battle vehicle heavy 40 tons and with two high wheels 9 meters: this is the Tsar tankalso known as Lebedenko or Nepotir. This is a military vehicle of which only one example was built between 1914 and 1915: given the poor results in the testing phase, it was never actually used on the ...
Do you know that irresistible desire to stay at home, away from everything and everyone, that overcomes us when we are sick? According to a new study conducted by MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), published in the well-known journal Cellit would not be a simple sensation nor a side effect of the feverish exhaustionbut of a real one evolutionary stratagem ...
As temperatures drop, you may have come across a series of social tips on how to quickly demist car windows on cold mornings. Among these, the “remedy of cork stopper” which, if positioned on the dashboardit would be able to completely absorb the humidity in the passenger compartment and prevent i glasses of our car they fog up. But does ...
Image generated with AI. Disney And OpenAI they signed one historic agreement which directly relates the global entertainment industry and generative artificial intelligence platforms. The agreement, structured as a three-year licenseallows Sora, the system text-to-video of OpenAI designed to generate short videos from users’ textual requests, to use further 200 characters and environments from the Disney, Pixar, Marvel and Star ...
The route, in red, of the Kanal Istanbul Ambitious project promoted by the current Turkish government of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the Istanbul Channel (Kanal Istanbul) is a 45 km artificial canal designed to connect the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara, with the aim of alleviating naval traffic currently concentrated in the Bosphorus. The initiative would give Turkey a ...
Contactless payments are now part of our everyday life: how many times do we bring our card or phone to the POS to buy a coffee at the bar or when we are out shopping. But have you ever wondered what the difference is between the two payment methods? Let’s start by saying that both use NFC technology, which stands ...
Image generated with AI. The two expert parachutists Ermes Zampa (70 years old) e Violetta Laiketsion (63 years old) died in a dramatic accident during a launch in Fanoin the Marche region, on Sunday 14 December 2025. According to the testimonies of those present, in particular of Roberto Masciodirector of the local parachuting school, the caps of the two parachutes ...