Credit: Rashmi Bhavasar, G Santoshkumar and B Rahul Prakash, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons The news is going around the world: the 32-year-old from Minnesota Phoenix Nightingale claims to have the so-called “vampire disease”for whom she cannot eat garlic because it would be fatal. It’s about the acute intermittent porphyriaa metabolic disorder that belongs to the family of rare ...
Optimus Gen 2. Credit: Tesla. A group of humanoid robots Optimus Gen 2 produced by TeslaElon Musk’s car company, showed in Los Angeles during the event Cybercab dedicated to the presentation of the new Tesla Robovan (a sort of self-driving shuttle). Musk took the opportunity to praise the capabilities of its robots, underlining how advanced they are compared to the ...
In the 1890s a a black baboon (Papio ursinus) was “hired” by the South African Railways for manage signage which regulated the train traffica position that the monkey held for 9 years. As absurd as it may seem, the story of this monkey is true and is even confirmed by an article published on Nature in 1990. But… how is ...
Credit: Tanya Khovanova Which of the figures shown in the image is different from the others? At first glance, the question seems easy and obvious: it is the green figure that is clearly different from the others. But… the circle is also the only one to have a different shape, and indeed the small square too! In short, by observing ...
The confine international shortest in the world is the one that separates the territory of the two sovereign states of Botswana and of Zambia (in southern Africa), also known as “Kazungula border“, from the name of the city that stands near the short border. Its length is just 150 meters and is located in the center of the course Zambezi ...
The soap it is one of the household products most used by man. Despite its enormous global diffusion and constant daily use, the chemistry behind its production is often little known. In this video we want to explore the process saponificationthe reaction chemistry which allows you to transform oils and fats in soap. To do this, we made a experiment ...
In recent days, news has appeared in the media that a new study has demonstrated the Spanish origins and not Genoese Of Christopher Columbusthe explorer known throughout the world for the “discovery” of America in 1492. Many Italian, Spanish and other newspapers have in fact claimed, in sensationalist tones, that the navigator belonged to a Jewish family living in the ...
After the July tests, from October 23, 2024 the digital wallet IT-Wallet will begin to be available inIO app for the first round of 50,000 Italians, and starting from December 4, 2024 all citizens will have access to this service. IT-Wallet allows you to have some documents – initially license, health card And European Disability Charter – in digital format ...
Scientists have been studying the hardening mechanism of bread for centuries, but the truth is that this has not been entirely well defined. What we know for sure is that there are mainly two causes responsible for this alteration. There redistribution Of humidity between crust and crumb and the transformation of starch, more specifically the so-called starch retrogradationin which amylose ...
A edible transistor based on pigments present in toothpaste to monitor the state of health of the human body from the inside: this is the idea behind the creation of a group of researchers from the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Milan led by Elena Feltriwho created a transistor from copper phthalocyanine, used as a whitener in toothpaste. A ...