Credit: Diego Delso. In most Western societies the name is considered a simple identifying element: it is used to distinguish us from others, to register at the registry office or to sign a document. Yet, in numerous cultures of the world (indigenous populations of the Amazon and Australia or African societies), the “real name” continues to be guarded by a ...
An example of cool pavements. Credit: City of Phoenix Street Transportation Department Heat waves are transforming our cities into real open-air ovens. Among the main elements that aggravate this problem we find the bituminous conglomeratecommonly called asphalt and traditionally used to build roads. It covers very large portions of the city territory, behaving like one sponge from a thermal point ...
Credits: Apple. The LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) is a remote sensing system which sends laser pulses towards what is in front of us and calculates how long it takes for the reflected light to return to the sensor. From this information it can obtain the distance from objects and, by repeating the measurement in many points, it can build ...
Kariba Dam. Credit: By Benbbb (Ben Bird) – Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons., Public domain Harness 180 billion cubic meters of water on a surface of 5,500 km²: the filling of the Kariba Dam between 1958 and 1963, on the border between Zambia And Zimbabwenot only created the largest artificial reservoir on the planet by capacity, but accompanied approx 2,000 ...
Window with rounded grating in Florence – Credits: Sailko, CC BY–SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Some windows, especially on the ground floor of buildings overlooking the street, but not only, have a rounded gratecalled “potbelly grill” (literally “belly” or “belly” grating). Commonly associated withEuropean architecturevery present among Italy, France and Spainwindows with curved lattices became popular between the Renaissance and ...
Rebild’s treasure. Credit: Nordjyske Museer. TO Rebildin Northern Jutland, in Denmark, a common gardening job it turned into one of the most important Danish archaeological discoveries of recent years. While preparing the land for a new deck, a homeowner noticed something unusual in the soil. Digging more carefully, they emerged silver jewelry, coins and ingots. The finding includes overall 18.5 ...
The Eiffela Broken Dreams by Philippe Maindron. Credits: Burning Man Every year, at the end of August, tens of thousands of people gather in the Nevada desert to build from nothing a utopian and temporary city which after just over a week was made to disappear, without leaving a trace, by whoever built it and inhabited it for a few ...
The 1 dollar coin featuring Donald Trump. Credit: US Mint There United States Mintthe entity that produces and distributes the US dollar, has issued a $1 coin with the portrait of Donald TrumpPresident in office, to celebrate the 250 years of American independence. A fact that the United States has not seen for a century and which, according to several ...
AI-generated image for illustrative purposes. The islands of Greece they cover one fifth of the surface total of the country, equal to approximately 25,000 km². But exactly how many islands are there? Because if you try to do a quick search online the first results will tell you with a certain degree of certainty that they are there 6,000 islands ...
Awards ceremony during the 2026 Ig Nobel ceremony. Credit: Improbable Research, via YouTube Imagine a day in September, a theater full of scientists and curious people and a group of Nobel Prize winners on stage… dressed up as mushrooms! This is what happened last night at the Kongresshaus in Zurich, Switzerland where it was held, for the first time outside ...