When a seismic event occurs, buildings and constructions in general are hit by dynamic actions proportional to the mass of the structurein relation to the level of energy that the earthquake tends to release. The response of the building to these external stresses is manifested through damage and a crack pattern that follows a very specific evolutionbased on the building’s ...
Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir. Photo World Economic Forum. 987 words organized in 22 points. These are the numbers of text published by Palantir in a long post entrusted to Xwhich went viral and sparked quite a bit of controversy. Renamed by the media as the “Palantir manifesto”this post has totaled tens of millions of views and is a summary ...
Artistic visualization of how the Sun would be seen from Earth during the red giant phase. Credit: ESO/ L. Calçada. Earth could don’t be swallowed by the Sun in about 5 billion years, when our star will enter a new phase of life and expand to reach the stars outer layers theEarth orbit. The results of new research published in ...
g Imagine throwing away a banana peel. Is this where his story ends? It depends where we throw it: He might even start a completely new one. In fact, if it is disposed of together with organic waste, it may undergo a process of decomposition where some organisms such as bacteria transform it into a material rich in nutrients: the ...
Have you ever stopped halfway through a sentence, undecided whether to write someone else or someone else? Don’t worry: it happens to everyone and making grammatical errors is more common than we think. Someone else, Anyway, it is written without an apostrophe. As always, there is a rule that explains why – it is a truncation like that which the ...
The mathematical jeep problem. Image generated with AI for example purposes. In the Jeep problem in the desert is a famous puzzle logical-mathematical which tells us about resource optimization. The situation is this: a violent sandstorm has isolated us and ours three companions shipping in the middle of desert. The only way to save ourselves is to reach the nearest ...
The Beleolico of Taranto it’s the first marine wind farm of the Mediterranean. The plant, with a total installed power of 30MWis among the most significant achievements of the offshore wind sector in Europe. Renexia SpA promoted and developed the project, supporting an investment of approximately 80 million euros. Inaugurated on 21 April 2022, the park therefore marks an important ...
Artificial intelligence has been beaten by humans in solving 10 complicated mathematical problems within the “First Proof” project. The project was born from this question: can AI replace mathematicians? To try to answer, a group of researchers from several European and US universities created the project “First Proof”, which means “first demonstration”. The objective of this project is to evaluate ...
The hydroelectric project Nam Theun 2 (NT2)in Laosrepresents an unprecedented work of hydraulic engineering, not only for its dimensions, but for the unusual inter-basin diversion scheme that defines its operation. Located on the plateau of Nakai, the project completed in 2010 exploits a natural difference in height between the Nam Theun river basin and the Xe Bang Fai river valley, ...
The Guinness World Record-winning SIMs. Copyright: Guinness World Record. A mobile number with all the same digits or with particular sequences is worth more to some collectors than a luxury car. These days we talk about it for the history of Mr Sima Italian collector anonymous who has just won four Guinness World Records for his SIM cards with “impossible” ...