It is one of the most popular beliefs in the West: i bats attack the hair (in particular the female ones) During the flight, and once grasped, they do not give up the grip, to the point of having to resort to scissors to detach them. A popular legend apparently very ancient, but without any foundation: the bats do not ...
The Monza circuit It is the fastest track in the entire Formula 1 World Championship, also known as “Temple of speed”: here the single -seater can touch (and to overcome) i 350 km/h. In 2005 Kimi Räikkönen recorded the absolute speed record In a Formula 1 race reaching i 370 km/h At the wheel of the McLaren MP4-20. Inaugurated in ...
A cinematographic representation of the Frankenstein monster. Credit: Via Wikimedia Commons To create the character of Frankenstein monsterMary Shelley was inspired by the experiments of an Italian scientist, Giovanni Aldini. Based on the theories of Luigi Galvani regarding theanimal electricityat the beginning of the 19th century Aldini made experiments on animal bodies, causing movements through electric discharges and making them ...
Thanks to artificial intelligence Google Photothe app that many of us use to archive your memories in cloud allows you to give life to the shots with Veo 3the new GOOGLE video generation model, through a special card Creation within the app. Thanks to the latter, the photos from static move to a fluid animation state, returning to the user ...
Andrea Camilleri in 2010 at the Chiara Prize, Luino. Credits: Friends of Piero Chiara Association, CC by 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Andrea Camilleri It was not only “the dad” of Commissioner Montalbanohis life and his work tell almost a century of Italian history, intertwining theater, television, literature, civil commitment and an unmistakable language that mixes Italian Sicilian dialect. Born in ...
Castello Sforzesco in Milan. Credit: by zheng.yan - proper work, cc by –a 4.0 Located just outside the historic center of Milan, the Castello Sforzesco It is a large fortified complex, among the largest in Europe. His current Renaissance guise was wanted in the fifteenth century by the Duke Francesco Sforzawhich rebuilt it on the remains of a previous medieval ...
In the virus investigation, a group of scientists must be able to understand how stop a hazard prehistoric virus. The only way they have to prevent it from spreading wherever it is to destroy one by one all rooms of your laboratory filling them with a toxic liquid Both for the virus and humans. How will they save the world ...
Hear about jellyfish cyborg It can make one think of a science fiction film, but Hollywood has nothing to do with it. Groups of scientists are carrying out studies on less advanced organisms Like jellyfish to move from cinematographic fiction to reality. So feared by swimmers in the Mediterranean waters, as appreciated by researchers as a model for the creation ...
In English, “To Feel Blue“It is a common way to say that one feels sad or melancholy. Not surprisingly the one that is passed off as the alleged” saddest day of the year “, in January, is called” Blue Monday “. But what does the blue color have to do with sadness or melancholy? The association is born in theAncient ...
The Iceberg A23a in November 2023. Credit: NASA THE’Iceberg A23athe largest in the world, has now come to its end after almost 40 years: after having detached itself from the ice of Antarctica, accepted and having started its drift again north on several occasions, now you are is quickly disintegrating in smaller fragments. In August 2024 its surface measured about ...