TAO seen from the outside. Credit: University of Tokyo The Tokyo Atacama Observatory (TAO) is a Japanese astronomical observatory whose construction was completed last year at the top of the Cerro Chajnantor In the Atacama desertin Chile, at a record height of 5,640 above sea levelmaking it the highest observatory in the world. The advantage is that up there the ...
Nightmares are dream activities particularly vivid and distressing which occur mainly in the REM phase of sleep. These are not just “bad dreams”, but a significantly negative experience for those who live it and who affects not only that on the quality of sleep but also on moodupon awakening. In fact, the feeling of malaise lasts for a good part ...
The veil is the garment used by Muslim women for cover the head and other parts of the body on public occasions and, more generally, in the presence of male people. The veil can be of various types and its use changes depending on the country: in some cases it is mandatory (by law or social convention), in other cases ...
Nuclear fusion, a reaction in which two light atomic nuclei combine to form a heavier one, is the process that powers the Sun and the stars, capable of releasing enormous quantities of energy. But then, if it works so well in nature, why can’t we reproduce it on Earth too? Nuclear fusion is clean, safe, practically inexhaustible. To get it ...
Girl with a Pearl Earring, Johannes Vermeer; via Wikimedia Commons We all know her face, even without having studied it: slightly turned to the left, her gaze turned towards the observer, the colorful turban on her head and a fleshy pearl hanging from her ear and her mouth open, something not common in Dutch paintings. This is an element that ...
Image generated with AI. If you are passionate about music, and musical media in particular, you may have heard the story that the CDs were 74 minutes long to contain Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. For decades it was believed that the Compact discor CD, would last for 74 minutes Why Norio Ohgapresident of Sony and classical music enthusiast, wanted the Ninth ...
MotoGP helmets must guarantee maximum protection and stability. Credit: Box Repsol, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons When a driver takes to the track, every gesture is calculated down to the millimetre. But there is one element that must always work, with no margin for error: the helmet. Beneath the graphics and sponsorships, a true engineering masterpiece is hidden. Today ...
Can AI chatbots really replace a psychologist? Short answer: no, it’s not a good idea to replace your psychologist with AI. He lacks real empathy, does not pick up on non-verbal cues and does not have the sensitivity necessary to ask the right questions. However, it can act as apsychological first aid” when you don’t have immediate access to a ...
Often, when a new earthquake occurs in the Campi Flegrei, I don’t find out about it from the seismographs, but from people.“Earthquake.”“Andrei, that was cool.”“Now yes, never felt so strong.”Well, when they tell me that, I immediately take action to understand what it was about.I check the INGV data, compare the locations, look at the depth, and as usual I ...
Six different galaxy clusters captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The clusters were observed in a study of the behavior of dark matter. Credit: ESA/Hubble, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons There dark matter represents one of the greatest mysteries of modern physics. Although invisibleexercise severity in the Universe, but it does not emit or absorb light. The evolution ...