Ecology

Record per la massima velocità raggiunta dalla Agera RS

The fastest production car in the world reached 446.97 km/h

Designing and building a car that exceeds homologation requirements is no small feat, but imagine the difficulty of obtaining the fastest car capable of traveling on the road. There are few companies that continue in the attempt to obtain the top speed record, one of them is Koenigsegga Swedish company based in Ängelholm. In this sense the Koenigsegg Agera RS ...

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Why in Hong Kong there are buildings with big holes inside: what are the “dragon gates”

Bel–Air Residence, Hong Kong If you have already been to Hong Kong you will surely have noticed that many buildings have rectangular openings – often very large – inside them, in many cases right in the center of the buildings. Well, these large empty spaces exist thanks to the strong influence on architecture given by the ancient Chinese practice of ...

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TikTok denies rumors about a possible sale of the social network to Elon Musk

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 ...

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Why do some cheeses have holes? Chemistry question

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 ...

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The volcanic eruption that shocked the climate and cooled the Earth in 1831 has been discovered

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 ...

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How to activate speed camera alerts on Google Maps: here’s the “trick” that works on Android

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 ...

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The spectacular images of Mercury seen from the latest flyby of the BepiColombo probe

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 ...

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What is the difference between avalanche and avalanche?

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”. ...