Credit: Lucara Diamond It was found in a mine in Karowe, in Botswana 430 km from the capital Gaborone, the Second largest rough diamond in the worldwith a weight of 2,492 caratsequal to approximately 468 gramsThe Canadian mining company announced this Lucara Diamondwho discovered diamond through technologies based on X-ray transmission (XRT), an advanced technique that allows the isolation of ...
If you are unable to watch some TV channels using digital terrestrial and are wondering why, the answer may be due to the switch to the new digital terrestrial, which began on 28 August 2024 with some Rai channels (specifically Rai Storia, Rai Scuola and Rai Radio 2 Visual). To resolve any reception problems due to the switch-off to the ...
Credit: Harry Quan via Unsplash THE colors they are a visual perception, that is, a “sensory translation” in our brain of a physical quantity which is the wavelength of light within a certain frequency band (the so-called “visible light”). But how many colors are there? The answer is very complex, because we must remember that, first of allcolors technically don’t ...
Wikipedia, as we know, it is afree encyclopedia and therefore it can sporadically happen that some user writes inside it some false information. Among all the hoaxes that have ever circulated on this platform, however, one is particularly noteworthy: we are talking about Jar’Edo Wensan entire page dedicated to a fake aboriginal deity which has remained online for almost ten ...
In the presence of high humidity and poor ventilation, dogs suffer more than us humans, especially in particularly closed, overheated and poorly ventilated environments, such as a car stopped under the sun. This happens because the dogs they have a system of thermoregulation different from ours compared to humans: in other words, they maintain their internal temperature almost constant by ...
Credits: SpaceX Almost everything is ready for the launch of the mission Polaris Dawn Of SpaceXwhere the will be reached maximum distance from Earth since the Apollo missions to the Moon and will be carried out first private extravehicular activity in history, scheduled for tomorrow Friday August 30, 2024 from Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which had already ...
According to Legambiente’s latest Beach Report 2024, the 46% of Italian sandy coasts is subject to phenomena of coastal erosionin addition to risks linked to climate change which are increasingly reducing the portion of accessible coastline. Added to this is the problem of beach concessions: according to the Legambiente report, the 33% of the Italian coasts are subject to concessionswith ...
The arrest of Pavel Durovfounder of Telegramwhich occurred on August 24, 2024 at Paris-Le Bourget airport, has put the spotlight back on the messaging app, accused by various governments of being an important “meeting place” for the shadiest figures on the Web, including scammers, terrorists, producers and consumers of child pornography. According to the prosecution, the reason why these criminals ...
Credit: MODIS imagery from NASA’s Aqua Satellite In the early hours of today, Thursday, August 29, 2024, the typhoon shanshan hit southwestern Japan in the prefecture of Kagoshimaon the island of Kyushu (already hit by two violent earthquakes at the beginning of August) with gusts of wind up to 185 km/htorrential rains up to 80 centimeters in the last 48 ...
The missions of peacekeeping They are missions organized by international organizations, such as the United Nations (UN), or regional, like the European Union or the African Union, which consist of political and military actions to facilitate a peace process and guarantee international peace and security following a ceasefire agreement between two parties involved. Peacekeeping missions, the meaning of which is ...