The Mjøstårnet tower, side view. Credit: Voll Arkitekter There Mjosa Tower or Mjøstårnet it is the tallest wooden building in the world. Completed in 2019, it is an 85.4 m high skyscraper with 18 floors, it is located in the city of Brumunddal, about an hour and a half from Oslo, and overlooks the lake shore MjosaNorway’s largest lake. Its ...
The legend of Jack O’Lantern – literally, Jack of the Lantern – was born in Ireland in the 17th century, and is linked to the story of a dissolute blacksmith, a certain Stingy Jackwho deceived the devil twice. For this reason his soul was damned, and the blacksmith was condemned to wander forever with a burning coal in his hand ...
The Windows Start menu it has always been the starting point for most activities on the PC, and for this reason its configuration can significantly influence the fluidity of the PC use experience. When Windows 11 arrived, many users noticed that that new setting, more centered and minimalist, seemed modern, but less practical than the Windows 10 Start menu: two ...
In Sudanthe paramilitary forces of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have just taken possession of the city of Al Fashir, located in West Darfur. According to at least thirteen videos released by the paramilitary group itself, hundreds of killings of civilians were committed. While the world’s spotlight remains on the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, in Sudan a ...
The 2024 it’s officially therehottest year on record and probably the hottest of the last 125,000 years: this is what emerges from the “Report on the State of the Climate” just published in the magazine BioScience and created by an international collaboration led by Oregon State University. The study, called The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on ...
Android users in Italy (and in Brazil) have a new cyber enemy to watch out for: Herodotusa banking malware capable of taking full control of infected devices and stealing money from online accounts. This trojan, developed by an author known as K1R0 and discovered by the experts of ThreatFabricstands out for its ability to imitate human behavior during remote control ...
Imagine entering a room that has been closed for weeks: before turning on the light, an indefinite smell reaches your nostrils, a mixture of “damp” and “lived”, what we define a musty smell. Well, what we smell really exists on a chemical level: it is the result of the accumulation of a series of volatile molecules (VOCs) – chemical compounds ...
The Halloween prank most successful in history? Undoubtedly what happened on October 30, 1938, when CBS, the United States radio broadcaster, broadcast a program based on a novel by HG Wells, The War of the Worldswhich he told the invasion of Earth by Martians. The broadcast was hosted by the Mercury Theater company, of which he was a member Orson ...
Cigar Lake. Credit: Cameco Cigar Lake it’s the most big mine Of uranium to the world. Located in Canadain the northern portion of the province of SaskatchewanCigar Lake is known for its very high uranium content, averaging about 17% of U₃OR₈in its mineralizations within ancient rocks over 1.6 billion years ago. With an overall production exceeding 70,000 metric tons less ...
Have you ever tried one of those gel hand warmers which are activated with a simple click? Just fold a little metal foil inside is the transparent liquid crystallizes visibly, becoming hot in a few moments. This happens thanks to an exothermic chemical reaction that triggers the solidification of the solution sodium acetate present in the hand warmer, which releases ...