Mars imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope during the 2016 opposition. Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), J. Bell (ASU), and M. Wolff (Space Science Institute) It’s time to equip yourself with gloves, scarf and hat to face these cold winter evenings and enjoy the spectacle ofopposition of Mars in the night between 15 and the January 16th. ...
Elon Musk he returned to the limelight for a possible acquisition of TikTokthe social network owned by the Chinese company ByteDance. Musk, after acquiring in 2022 Twitter (Now X) for the record sum of 44 billion dollars, would be interested in expanding its dominance in the world of social media by purchasing the famous Chinese app, at least according to ...
How are they created? holes in the cheese – or in technical jargon eyes – when cutting products such as Swiss Emmentaler or Gruyere? It all starts from milka mixture made up of water, proteins, fats, sugars and mineral salts. Its transformation into cheese follows various phases, but we are interested in the so-called maturationin which distinctive characteristics such as ...
It has finally been resolved an enigma that has lasted almost 200 years. A research team, led by researchers fromUniversity of St. Andrews in the United Kingdom, would have identified the source of the volcanic eruption which, in 1831during the “Little Ice Age”, caused a global drop in temperatures of up to 1°Ctriggering climate changes that led to crop failures ...
Google Maps it has become an irreplaceable travel companion for millions of drivers around the world, thanks to its ability to provide precise directions, real-time traffic updates and detailed route information. Among the many features offered, one is missing that would probably be appreciated by many users: the alert on the presence of speed cameras. This function, present in other ...
Credits: ESA/BepiColombo/MTM Wednesday 8 January at 06:59 Italian time the probe Bepi Colombo of the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency carried out the sixth and final flyby (in jargon fly-by) from the surface of Mercurygiving us splendid new images of the planet closest to the Sun. The orbital maneuver was performed to put the probe on ...
Often when we talk about mountain disasters we hear about avalanches And avalanches… but what’s the difference? In reality the two words are synonyms: in both cases it is in fact “one mass of snow which detaches itself from the top of a slope and, sliding downwards, assumes ever larger dimensions overwhelming and submerging everything it encounters along its path”. ...
One of Oliviero Toscani’s most famous shots: three hearts that belong to people with different skin colours. Photo-poster against racism. He passed away silently on January 13, 2025 at Cecina hospital Oliviero Toscanithe great Italian photographer who with his bold and avant-garde gaze revolutionized the way of taking photos and advertising. Amyloidosis (a rare disease characterized by the anomalous accumulation ...
They have been going on for 6 days now fires in Los Angeles in California that began last Tuesday: the number of victims is at least 24 peopleat least 180,000 evacuated and were burned – which was distributed in 5 serious fires – 163km2 of land, an area slightly larger than the city of Palermo. The two main fires, Palisades ...
Last weekend Italy suffered a wave of hacker attacks which, in this case, affected Italian institutional and corporate sites, raising important concerns about the digital security of the “Bel Paese”. The offensives, claimed mainly by the pro-Russian collective Noname057(16) and by pro-Palestinian groups, such as Alixsecthey targeted ministerial portals, banks, transport companies and other key infrastructures. These attacks were perpetrated ...