Overview of Loch Bhorgastail, with the crannog. Credit: Blankshein et al. In the Loch Bhorgastailon the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, in Scotlandthere is a small island that at first glance seems like a natural accumulation of stones. It is instead a so-called “crannog“, aartificial island built by man beyond 5,000 years agoIn the Neolithic. The archaeologists ofUniversity ...
About 219,890 tons of gold were extracted throughout the entire history of humanitystarting from beyond 6000 years ago until today. Of these, beyond the80% it has been undermined over the last century. If you stacked every single coin, jewel, ingot or any other form of gold, you would get a cube with a side of approximately 22 meters. Gold has ...
There is a new geometric figure, the Noperthedron, a convex polyhedron that defies the laws of geometry because it cannot pass inside itself. In mathematics, it is said that the Nopethedron has disproved the Rupert’s propertywhich we will see shortly. But what does it mean that it can’t pass through? Let’s try to understand it with an example. Let’s imagine ...
There human communication it is a complex interweaving between words and the gestures of body. Much of what we transmit, in fact, does not pass through the voice, but through postures, head movementsfrom the hands and of body entire. However, what it may seem spontaneous and universal in a culture it can be interpreted completely different in another. In general, ...
Generated with AI for illustrative purposes only. The burp or belchingto use the medical term, is often considered an embarrassing gesture by social convention, but it is actually a shared bodily mechanism. As the Humanitas clinical institute explains, burping consists of the noisy emission of gas from the stomach through the mouth. This is a completely physiological mechanism that our ...
Have you ever heard of theDoomsday Plane? Imagine a true “Flying Pentagon,” designed to withstand a nuclear attack and allow the US government to continue operating even in the worst possible scenario. This is theE-4B Nightwatchknown by most as Doomsday Planeand in this article we will see what its characteristics are, what’s inside it (or at least, what we know ...
A wreck a few meters from the shore. Credit: Manas In the Bay of Gibraltar (also called Algeciras Bay) have been identified 151 new archaeological sites divers, with 34 wrecks documented in detail and covering a chronological period from the 5th century BC to the 20th century AD The discovery – result of Herakles Project conducted by researchers from the ...
There are those who leave the house in the morning and find them in the garden or on the roofs. Who stopped sleeping because of their nocturnal cries, very loud and repeated. Who instead stops in the street to photograph them. Punta Marinaa small seaside resort in the province of Ravennahas become the center of an unexpected national debate in ...
Screenshot of the fake site that imitates the official Claude download page. Credit: Malwarebytes. Claudethe artificial intelligence of Anthropicis becoming more and more popular. According to some estimates, it reached 290 million monthly visits. This has made the model a very attractive target for cybercriminals. Security researchers from Malwarebytes have identified a counterfeit website that closely imitates the official Claude ...
An image of the world’s longest train, the BHP Iron Ore train. Credit: Northlandz, via The longest train in the world was built in Australia in 2001: it was long 7.4 kilometers and was designed for the transport of enormous quantities of ironfrom the country’s hinterland to the logistics hubs along the coast. The train in question named BHP Iron ...