For the bilingual or multilingual individuals in particular it is possible to dream not only in the mother tongue but also in other languages, due to the influence of various factors including daily use and immersion in a specific cultural context. Let’s see what it means and why it happens. Why do we start dreaming in a foreign language There ...
From New York to London and vice versa by train through a transatlantic tunnel: how much it can actually be considered reliable this project idea that is being talked about a lot? If the Bridge over the Strait today it seems like a realization for many futuristically advanced and at the same time a challenge to the technological and physical ...
Designing and building a car that exceeds homologation requirements is no small feat, but imagine the difficulty of obtaining the fastest car capable of traveling on the road. There are few companies that continue in the attempt to obtain the top speed record, one of them is Koenigsegga Swedish company based in Ängelholm. In this sense the Koenigsegg Agera RS ...
Bel–Air Residence, Hong Kong If you have already been to Hong Kong you will surely have noticed that many buildings have rectangular openings – often very large – inside them, in many cases right in the center of the buildings. Well, these large empty spaces exist thanks to the strong influence on architecture given by the ancient Chinese practice of ...
Mars imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope during the 2016 opposition. Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), J. Bell (ASU), and M. Wolff (Space Science Institute) It’s time to equip yourself with gloves, scarf and hat to face these cold winter evenings and enjoy the spectacle ofopposition of Mars in the night between 15 and the January 16th. ...
Elon Musk he returned to the limelight for a possible acquisition of TikTokthe social network owned by the Chinese company ByteDance. Musk, after acquiring in 2022 Twitter (Now X) for the record sum of 44 billion dollars, would be interested in expanding its dominance in the world of social media by purchasing the famous Chinese app, at least according to ...
How are they created? holes in the cheese – or in technical jargon eyes – when cutting products such as Swiss Emmentaler or Gruyere? It all starts from milka mixture made up of water, proteins, fats, sugars and mineral salts. Its transformation into cheese follows various phases, but we are interested in the so-called maturationin which distinctive characteristics such as ...
It has finally been resolved an enigma that has lasted almost 200 years. A research team, led by researchers fromUniversity of St. Andrews in the United Kingdom, would have identified the source of the volcanic eruption which, in 1831during the “Little Ice Age”, caused a global drop in temperatures of up to 1°Ctriggering climate changes that led to crop failures ...
Google Maps it has become an irreplaceable travel companion for millions of drivers around the world, thanks to its ability to provide precise directions, real-time traffic updates and detailed route information. Among the many features offered, one is missing that would probably be appreciated by many users: the alert on the presence of speed cameras. This function, present in other ...
Credits: ESA/BepiColombo/MTM Wednesday 8 January at 06:59 Italian time the probe Bepi Colombo of the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency carried out the sixth and final flyby (in jargon fly-by) from the surface of Mercurygiving us splendid new images of the planet closest to the Sun. The orbital maneuver was performed to put the probe on ...