Credit: Toho Company Ltd., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The November 3the day the movie “Gojira” was released in 1954, fans celebrate the Godzilla Day. It’s not just a pop occasion: it’s an opportunity to ask a question that seems like a joke but instead opens very serious doors on the biology of giants, on the physics of fluids and ...
Particle accelerator. The particle accelerators they are among the most fascinating and complex machines ever built by man. They are used to study the subject in its most fundamental components, using electric and magnetic fields, accelerate particles causing them to collide. But they are not just tools for research: they have concrete applications also in medicine, industry and art. The ...
Is it better to wash by hand or in the washing machine? There is no single answer, it depends on a number of factors, such as the type of tissuethe degree and type of dirtyas long as we want to be efficient, hygienic or sustainable. We must not generalize too much, making the mistake of choosing either the washing machine ...
On the left a “crazy chestnut”, fruit of the horse chestnut and toxic to humans. On the right a common chestnut, fruit of the chestnut tree and edible. Image generated with AI. The custom of keeping one in your pocket chestnut said “crazy” to protect oneself from seasonal ailments, originates from Renaissance folklore, but It has no scientific basis. In ...
A rendering of what Al Maktoum airport will look like after the expansion. Source: Dubai Government The expansion project of theAl Maktoum airport to Dubai it is a mega infrastructure project, which claims to transform this airport into the largest in the world. Located in Jebel Ali, 37 km southwest of Dubai and opened on 27 June 2010, the airport ...
The Bersey Cab electric taxi. Credit: London Science Museum It seems like a 21st century invention, yet theelectric car it’s almost as old as the car itself. At the end of the 19th century, before petrol dominated the streets, vehicles such as the electric taxi Bersey Cab they were already circulating around London and Ferdinand Porsche himself was designing advanced ...
There marathon it is perhaps the most iconic running race but its history is far from linear. Today, Sunday 2 November, the 2025 edition of the famous New York marathon will take place at 2.30pm Italian time. The legend was born in 490 BC with Philippidesthe Greek messenger who, according to myth, ran for approx 40 km from Marathon to ...
It was 1951 when the astronomer William Wilson Morgan came out of the Yerkes observatory, after hours of calculations on star clusters. Looking up at the sky, he had a sudden intuition: the stars he was studying were not randomly distributed, but formed a spiral. In that instant he had “seen” the structure of the Milky Way. That moment of ...
AI generated image Someone species of hominidsa family of primates dating back to the early Miocene, which lived in East Africa about 1.5 million years ago they could use tools with their hands, reports a new study recently published on Nature by researchers at Stony Brook University. This is a question that has been debated at length until today, because ...
Once peeled, the mandarin releases an intense aroma due to numerous volatile compounds. Among these prevail i terpeneshow limonene And linaloolresponsible respectively for the citrus and floral notes. These molecules spread rapidly in the air, stimulating the olfactory receptors and generating the typical tangerine smell. At home, when you place the peels on the radiator, heat accelerates the evaporation of ...