Of all the pharaohs who reigned overAncient Egypt during the thousand-year history of Egyptian civilization, one of the least known was Akhenaten (1351-1334/1333 BC), of XVIII dynasty. A particular choice in religious matter implemented in the last years of his reign earned him the nickname of “heretic pharaoh” and caused, after his death, an operation of damnatio memoriae: the pharaoh ...
We often wake up with a fleeting sensation: we just had a dream, but the details quickly dissolve. Why does this happen? According to neuroscience, forget your dreams it is a natural process linked to the functioning of the brain during sleep. The key to the mystery lies inactivity of some brain areas and in the mechanisms of memorywhich go ...
THE’largest hospital in the world it is that ofZhengzhou Universityin the Chinese province of Henan, which has the beauty of 13 buildings with inside beyond 10 thousand beds (data as of 2022), i.e. approximately 8 times more compared to the AOU Umberto I Polyclinic of Rome (sometimes considered the largest hospital in Europe). This enormous hospital facility serves more than ...
Credit: Takeuchi et al. CC–BY–ND, go BBC Science Focus. “Living skin” And “robot” they are terms which, in addition to coexisting very well in the plot of a potential dystopian film, could one day revolutionize the robotics sector, in this case what is called bio-hybrid robotics. A group of scientists from the University of Tokyo, in fact, is “cultivating” actual ...
David Copperfieldat the registry office David Seth Kotkinis one of the illusionists most famous of all times and in 1983 he earned the record for the greatest illusion in historydoing “disappear” the Statue of Liberty live on TV in front of millions of viewers. This feat made him one of the most famous illusionists of the century, revered like a ...
The smartphones can be “transformed” into TV remote controls using two main technologies: infrared And WiFi. Although the use of infrared to send encoded signals to the TV is less and less common in modern devices, it remains a potentially viable “road” through the use of IR blaster adapters coupled with specific apps with which to issue the actual commands. ...
We often hear that dandruff affects men more, and in fact there is some basis in truth. But why? Dandruff, whether dry or oily, is a scalp disorder that has a origin multifactorial: depends on the action of the mushroom Malassezia furfurbut also by the production of sebum, regulated by the androgen hormones (the main one of which is testosterone ...
We have all wondered at least once why the rear window from the cars has those horizontal lines orange or black and, above all, because the windshield doesn’t have one. These lines are actually electrical wires which, when crossed by current, heat up thus allowing it defrost of the rear window and improving visibility for the driver. What are black ...
Francis of Assisiborn in 1181 and died in 1226was an Italian religious man and poet, venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church. He stripped himself of all his riches to follow a pauperistic ideal of life and founded the Order of Friars Minor. It is therefore known as “the poor man” of Assisi. In 1219 met the sultan of ...
Let’s consider a grid like the one shown in the image, with 6 almonds on each of the four sides and 4 almonds in the center. By moving the almonds one by one from the center to the sides and making some exchanges, the count of almonds per side remains equal to 6. But how is it possible that by ...