In blue, the Antarctic Geoid Low (AGL), the “gravity hole” of Antarctica. Credit: ICGEM Corresponding to Antarctica there is a “gravitational hole” where the gravity force is less compared to other regions of the planet. The anomaly, known as Lower Antarctic Geoid (Antarctic Geoid LowAGL) and located between Victoria Land and Marie Byrd Land, originated 70 million years ago and ...
Generated with AI. Sea spiders, lantern fish, the vampire squid and the ghost jellyfish: these are just some of the creatures with imaginative names that populate the abysses of the seas around the world. Despite being known to science, these species sighted so rarely by man represent only an infinitesimal part of oceanic biodiversity, considering that over80% of the sea ...
Animals it is without a doubt one of the albums of Pink Floyd most iconic. The concept album, released in 1977is a harsh criticism of British society of the time, allegorically divided into pigs (the powerful), dogs (social climbers) and sheep (the masses). On the album cover – a photograph of Storm Thorgerson – a pig is seen flying between ...
Third party chat on Whatsapp. Credit: Meta The function “Third Party Chat” of WhatsApp is slowly reaching more and more users and, for the first time in Europe, allows you to exchange messages with users who use different messaging applicationsprovided they are integrated and authorized and in compliance with the DMA (Digital Markets Act). It is a novelty that arises ...
Researchers at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University produced the first thirty-year analysis (1993-2022) of change in mass of the oceansobtained through high-precision satellite data: the study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciencesmeasured a sea level rise of approx 90 millimeters over the last 30 years, but above all he discovered that the rate of sea rise is ...
An image of the little macaque Punch and his stuffed monkey at the Ichikawa Zoo in Japan. The story of the. has been making the rounds on the web for days Punch macaque babyrejected by his mother in the Ichikawa Zoo in Japan, who developed a deep and – for us – very tender attachment to a monkey plush provided ...
Privacy maniacs will know this well: on the iPhone there is a function that allows you to hide downloaded apps to prevent them from being accessible to third parties, which can be useful in reducing the risk that a curious on duty can easily access their sensitive data. Just think of all that information we keep in health monitoring apps, ...
Raise your hand if you don’t find the noise slightly annoying adhesive tape for parcels when we detach it – precisely – from a package, or from its own roll. It is a familiar noise that, however, for many years, physicists have not been able to explain. Well, a new study just published in the journal Physical Review E seems ...
THE’Iceland will organize a referendum to decide whether apply for membership of the European Union: The decision was confirmed by the Icelandic Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttirwhich had included it in its political program for the 2024 elections. The government of the volcanic island, in reality, had already submitted an application for EU membership in 2009after the effects of the financial ...
Not all smokers consume the same amount of cigarettes. Some stop at a few a day, others smoke many more. Some of this difference may be written in DNA. In a study published yesterday on Nature CommunicationsDr. Rajagopale and colleagues performed genetic analysis of 37,897 smokers Mexico City Prospective Study and they identified a rare variant of the CHRNB3 gene ...