The Solar system is the set of celestial bodies that orbit the Sun: in addition to the planetary system with the 8 planets recognized by astronomers (divided into rocky and giant planets, including gas giants and icy giants) we also find dwarf planets such as Pluto, comets, asteroids and satellites, kept in orbit by the gravitational force of the Sun ...
For launch ships you break a bottle of wine or champagne on the bow because the ritual is there modern version of one ceremony existing since ancient world. It must be considered that launching is the event with which the vessel is put into water for the first time and it is a solemn moment celebrated with sumptuous ceremonies, which ...
You’re watching The effects of drugs Don’t miss out on more content from Geopop There is a lot of talk about pink cocaine and how quickly it is spreading among young people. It is a mix of substances that, in reality, has nothing to do with coca extract.But what is pink cocaine from a chemical point of view? And what ...
There Mediterranean dieta nutritional model inspired by the diet of the countries in the Mediterranean basin, placed itself at the center of the attention of the medical debate on nutrition in the 1950s, thanks to the now famous “Seven Countries Study” by Ancel Keys. Today it is widely recognized for its benefits in prevention of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. It ...
In the centuries preceding the invention of paper, many writing supports were used, among which the most widely used are papyrus and the parchment. Sometimes these two terms are interchanged, but they are two completely different materials: papyrus (used above all in ancient Egypt) is in fact plant origin and it tends to be more delicate, while parchment (used for ...
As some studies conducted by some researchers of the Columbia University in 2017, in principle 1 single gram of DNA would be able to contain up to 215 petabytes of information, or 215 million gigabytes of information: an impressive capacity when compared to modern hard disks! Not only that, DNA, with its extraordinary density and resistance over time, could represent ...
Destroying money it is a rare act, because no one, or almost no one, is crazy enough to commit it. However, it may happen that small quantities of banknotes are destroyed reasons for protestto create a artistic performance or for some other reason. Money is personal property and everyone should be free to destroy it if they wish to do ...
On the occasion of 25th anniversary of INGV (National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology), the new interactive map of Italian seismicity has been published and can be consulted for free online. Inside they are reported 72 thousand earthquakes of magnitude 2.0 or greater that occurred between January 1, 1999 and the August 31, 2024. The various shocks are classified mainly ...
In recent months, scams conveyed through WhatsApp messages coming from numbers with a foreign prefix and managed by automated bots they affected many users. The latest “variant” of this scam concerns the use by cyber criminals of numbers with Kenyan area code (+254). The “scheme” is essentially this: numbers of potential victims looking for work are contacted, offering them large ...
Upper atmosphere of Uranus imaged by the Voyager 2 probe. Credit: NASA/JPL/Voyager–ISS/AndreaLuck, Wikimedia Commons The gas giant Uranusseventh planet of the Solar System in order of distance from the Sun, has had a fascinating mystery in recent decades: a constant cooling of its thermosphere (the upper part of the atmosphere) compared to measurements made by the probe Voyager 2 in ...