Raffaello Sanzio, Madonna del Cardellino (about 1506), Uffizi Galleries, Florence. The veil of the Madonna it becomes blue coloror as it was called at the time, blue overseas, between the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance: it was in fact a color of considerable economic value, obtained from a precious stone like the lapislazzulo, and therefore it was reserved in ...
THE’aging It is the natural process with which our body, with the passage of time, gradually loses efficiency, manifesting signs as a cellular slowdown and greater vulnerability to diseases. The causes of this phenomenon are manifold and the basis of there are complex biological mechanisms. In particular, specific structures called telomeri play a crucial role: they protect our DNA But ...
Today the coffee it is extremely popular in Swedenbut it has not always been like this: until the first half of the 19th century it was illegal marketing, working And sell This drink. Those who were caught in the act had to pay a salty fine and were confiscated dishes and cups – and being a luxury asset, it was ...
Masdar City (the “source city”), in United Arab Emirates, It is one of the most ambitious projects of recent years: designed by the Archistar Norman Foster, This city on paper will be completely sustainable and thanks to a large photovoltaic plant, solar panels On the facades of the buildings, construction materials at zero impact on the environment. Great challenges await ...
The Capital accumulation plan (PAC) is a form of “intelligent savings” based on Investments in installmentsin other words a way to save money, also gaining something through the investment. They propose themselves as alternative solutions to the payment of their money in a single solution (PIC: capital investment plans) but have the same purpose. With the CAP, we undertake, in ...
There Smartphone LED torch It is a function present on practically all cell phones on the market, which can be useful in multiple daily situations, from the search for objects in dark environments to use as an emergency light signaling, to the shot of photographs in not very enlightened environments. Not everyone knows, however, that in many cases it is ...
The Friuli-Venezia Giulia It is a region with a special statute of theNorth-eastern Italy. The double name immediately identifies it as one of those regions with a complex and heterogeneous identity, whose territory is made up of historically and culturally distinct areas. The FriuliIn fact, it corresponds roughly to the territories of Pordenone, Udine and Gorizia, which occupy most of ...
The backup is one Copy of data security present on a devicewhich is kept in a safe place, so that they can restore any information that is lost. If your smartphone, tablet or computer should break, be stolen or lost or, again, to be affected by a malware (for example a ransomware), the backup could literally save you from a ...
Credit: Philip Ezze, via Wikimedia Commons In recent years, the 3D printing has made enormous progress and, if we add the prefix “bio“, we open the door to an extraordinary world: the bIostampa 3Da technology that promises to transform the future of medicine with applications into regenerative medicine, in the development of drugs and in the production of synthetic meat. ...
The Codex Gigas (also known as the “Devil’s Bible”) is the larger and heavier medieval manuscript to date known. Measure 92 centimeters of height for 50 width e 22 thick, and its overall weight is approximately 75 kilograms! The text has been thought to have been written in XIII century at the Benedictine monastery of Podlažicein Bohemia (today’s Czech Republic). ...