A team of researchers from theAustralian National University (ANU) discovered the existence of a vast “donut” shaped area in the Earth’s fluid outer core. Studying the speed of the seismic waves In this layer, scientists have identified a slow downwhich testifies to the presence of a region with characteristics different from the rest of the nucleus. The discovery is important ...
In the world of printing and graphics industry theexpression “Lorem ipsum…“ It is one of the most famous and used phrases. Although it is common to think that it is composed of Latin words arranged with a precise logic and meaning, in reality the expression in its current form does not have a real translation because in reality it doesn’t ...
Let’s take one classic calculator And the app from the iPhone calculator and we perform on both same operations. If we are dealing with two additions/subtractions in a row, the result of the two devices will be the same. But if we perform for example a sum followed by a multiplication (or division), the two results they will be different. ...
Lorenzo Barone he is a young man traveler and Italian adventurer. He was born in 1997 in Rome and has already accomplished notable feats, especially by bike, such as a long winter crossing of Siberia. We interviewed him to have him tell us in particular about an adventure he experienced in 2020: Lorenzo left from Cape Agulhas in South Africathe ...
Photo courtesy of Serena Venturin You have probably heard of the Vaia Dragonthe largest wood sculpture in the world of a dragon, destroyed by arson on August 23, 2023 and rebuilt in July 2024, but what do you know about theBear Vaia? Better known as Molveno Bearit is a large wooden sculpture, built (just like the Vaia Dragon and other ...
Credits: NASA Johnson/Flickr. “There is a strange noise coming from the speaker… I don’t know what causes it“: it seems like the incipit of a science fiction book, but it is actually the communication received from NASA mission control by the astronaut Butch Wilmorestationed on the International Space Station. The astronaut, in a recording that you can listen to below, ...
The Congress of Vienna It was a conference held in Schönbrunn Palacein the capital of the then Austrian Empire. It opened theNovember 1, 1814 and finished the June 9, 1815. He was summoned to discuss the territorial and political reorganisation of Europe after the French Revolution and the Napoleonic epic. Representatives of many European states participated in the Congress, but ...
Credits: NASA. NASA scientists, in a study published in the journal Nature, have discovered the existence of a faint planetary electric field that envelops the Earth between the altitudes of 250 and 768 km from the surface. Our planet, therefore, is not only equipped with a gravitational field and of a magnetic field, but also of a third electric field ...
Italy is a country that, unfortunately, is often subject to floods. consequences of these events vary depending on the territory but are usually linked to the lack of ability to dispose of excess water generated by extreme weather events. There are hydraulic works Of lamination, Of flow regulation and of filtering able to counteract the consequences of these events and ...
Most electric cars on the market use lithium ion batterieswhich offer high performance. To produce them, a huge quantity of raw materials is needed: a battery of this type on average contains well 185 kg of minerals and metals! Different types of materials are used depending on the battery component and therefore the function they have to perform. Many of ...