Ecology

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PayPal down, unable to access and make payments: problem solved

If you have encountered difficulty using PayPal todayyou were not the only ones. For about a couple of hours late morning on November 21st until this early afternoon, thousands of users globally reported disruptions on the well-known digital payment platform founded by Elon Musk. Technical issues prevented both accessing accounts and completing operations such as checkout and withdrawals. The company ...

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Alcolock, how the anti-drunk driving device of the new Highway Code works

AMS2000 Ignition Interlock Device manufactured by Guardian Interlock Systems. Credit: Rsheram – Own work, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. With the introduction of new Highway Code 2024officially approved by the Senate, the installation of thealcohollocka device that has the task of acting as technological barrier against drunk driving. Its operation is conceptually very simple: it is a breathalyzer integrated ...

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Canada could soon become the leading country in uranium production

THE’uranium is returning to the center of attention thanks to the growing interest innuclear energy as a solution to climate crisissupported by numerous world powers. The Canadawith his uranium deposits among the purest in the world and the technological capacity of enrich it directly on the territory beforeexportmay soon emerge as a new one superpower in the nuclear sector. In ...

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Why does turning off and on devices like PCs or smartphones work so often?

Turn a malfunctioning device off and on again it is the suggestion that all of us have given or received at least once in our lives. But have you ever wondered why it works so often to solve various operating problems? The answer must be sought in the complexity of the functioning of electronic devices and their intrinsic limits. Every ...

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How do you windsurf at more than 70 km/h? Interview with the champion Matteo Iachino

Did you know that in Italy we have a super champion Of windsurfing? Well yes: it’s called Matteo Iachino (Savona, 22 September 1989), he is 35 years old and has won two PWA world championships in the Slalom Windsurfing category in 2016 And 2023as well as another world title, and various European and Italian championships. But not only that. Matteo ...

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The Earth will still have its “second moon” for a short time, what it is and when it will go: the new study

Artistic representation. Monday November 25, 2024 at hours 5.43pm Italians the Earth will lose its “mini-moon”, an asteroid called 2024 PT5discovered on August 7, 2024 at a distance of 568,000 km from Earth, which on September 29 was temporarily “captured” by Earth’s gravity, becoming a sort of large “second moon” between 8 and 19 metres and distant currently 3.7 million ...

Colore del salmone astaxantina

Is it true that the color of salmon is not orange? It becomes so with nutrition

What if we told you that the true color of salmon it is not orange? In a certain sense, when the salmon is born it is not orange, but the truth is that it becomes orange very soon, through life‘diet. The color of salmon meat depends in fact on the intake of a carotenoid called astaxanthinthe same pigment that gives ...

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How and why Putin’s Russia updated its nuclear doctrine and warned the West

The November 19, 2024a thousand days after the start of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, Moscow has revised its own nuclear war doctrinebroadening the circumstances in which it could resort touse of atomic weapons. At the same time, the President Putin launched a warning to the Westwith particular reference to the United States, warning them not to intensify their ...