“But where did I put the keys?” It is the recurring question when it happens to desperately search for the keys or the remote control, and then discover that they were really before our eyes. This is a common experience that takes the name of selective carelessness: We don’t see objects that are right there, in our visual field. Sometimes, ...
A gigantic coronal hole Great beyond 1 million km It is right now dominating the southern portion of the sun. It is the coronal hole larger ever trained in recent years and, aiming for the earth, could cause geomagnetic storms medium -sized, with aurore even to lower latitudes than usual, Between Tuesday 20 May and Thursday 22 May. Coronal holes ...
Michelangelo’s pity after vandalism, 1972. Via Wikimedia Commons In the Basilica of San Pietro, the Australian naturalized Hungarian geologist Laszlo Toth vandalized with 15 hammers the Pietà by Michelangelo The May 21, 1972. Sculpture, of the dimension of 1.74 m × 1.95 m × 69 cm It is a marble marble of Carrara, Made by Michelangelo Buonarroti Between 1497 and ...
There are professions that, in some parts of the world, do not allow the use of phones with the camera: let’s talk for example of those who work in military baseson oil platformsin nuclear power plants or on particularly delicate projects. In fact, in all these works it is possible that even a photo or video can disseminate sensitive data ...
An artistic representation of meganeura in its natural environment. Monyi meganeura was aancestor of the current dragonflies lived during the late carboniferous, approximately 300 million years agoand paleontologists estimate that he could reach a wing opening of about 65-75 cm, with 32 cm per single wing. Dimensions that make it one of the larger insects ever existed of the history ...
Charles Lindbergh arrives at Le Bourget airport in 1927. Credits: Bibliothèque Nationale de France, via Wikimedia Commons A young American aviator named Charles A. Lindbergh he did the First Atlantic Transfer of Lonely History And without a stopover on 20 and 21 May 1927: he took off from New York aboard a small single -seater called Spirit of St. Louis. ...
How was Geopop born? This is the question that perhaps most of all is addressed to all of us members of the Geopop team. For this, we decided to give an answer directly through the words of its creator, Andrea Moccia, through an episode of the series of Geopop science dialogues. In this episode, Andrea Moccia He tells us how ...
Ethics and moral These are two concepts that we often use as if they were interchangeable, but in reality they have distinct meanings. Both concern the way we evaluate what is right or wrong, and influence our daily decisions. The difference lies in the point of view: the ethics concerns theTheoretical analysis of principleswhile morality refers to practical rules and ...
A New Blackout is causing significant inconveniences in Spainthis time hitting in particular the Telecommunication networks: on tilt fixed telephone lines, internet network and the emergency number of 112. From the early hours of the morning, in many areas of the country they have been reported problems especially with fixed lines and emergency services. The most involved regions are theAndalusia ...
151 Earthquake shocks in the Campi Flegrei With magnitude up to 4.4: this is the number of seismes recorded by the monitoring network of the Vesuvian Observatory according to the last weekly BOD bulletin in the period Between 12 and 18 May. A remarkable increase compared to the 46 shocks recorded in the previous week. The seismic activity of the ...