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Photographed the “hidden” partner of the Bethelgesue star: the discovery of the Gemini North telescope

Image obtained with the Speckle Imaging technique of Betelgeuse (orange star on the right) and its partner star, which appears blue because it is more warm superficially than the red supergiant. Credits: Gemini Observatory/Noirlab/NSF/Aura, M. Zamani (NSF Noirlab). A team of astronomers led by astrophysicist Steven Howell managed to photograph for the First time in history the “companion” hidden by ...

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If the “French Fries” probably have French origin, why do the Americans call them that?

In the triangle Belgium-Frantia-USAfew stories are debated like that of french fries: we call them “French Fries“, But they are not French! The truth is that they do not have an inventor in the strict sense: probably, they were born between Belgium and France, but the first documented recipe dates back toEnglandIn the 1822. A linguistic error made by American ...

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The global hacker attack in Microsoft was born from the Toolshell vulnerability: what happened

A computer attack of global scale has targeted government agencies and companies on at least three continents, exploiting a dangerous Fuck it on Microsoft SharePoint servers installed locally. To report the news was the Washington Postciting some informed researchers. The intrusion vector is a vulnerability known as Toolshella critical defect (marked by the code CVE-2025-53770) which allows the execution of ...

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The curious history of the island of the Fagiani, the only one in the world to change nationality every six months

Fagian Island. Credit: Iñaki LL, CC By -a 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons THE’Fagian Island It is an uninhabited river islet, about about 200 meterswith a surface of about 3000 square meterswhich stands on the Bidasoa riveron the border between southwestern France and the Basque countries, in northern Spain. THE’ île des faisansin French, Isla de Los Faisanes in Spanish, Konpantzia ...

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The history of Pirellino: the redevelopment project of the Pirelli 39 Tower in Milan

Known today as Pirellino or Torre Pirelli 39the ex Torre of municipal technical services It is a 90 -meter and 26 floors skyscraper located in the Centro Direzionale di Milano in via Giovanni Battista Pirelli 39, built in the 1960s. Over time, the building has received several design proposals that have traced its path to an architectural and functional redevelopment ...