Ecology

esperimento saponificazione

Can you make soap from used oil? Yes: our chemical experiment on saponification

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 ...

teoria cristoforo colombo era spagnolo oppure italiano

Christopher Columbus, Jewish and from Valencia? A documentary takes up the hypothesis, but there is no proof

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 ...

perche il pane diventa duro retrogradazione amidi

Why does bread become hard if left out in the open? Caused by humidity and starch retrogradation

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 ...

Transistor dentifricio

A “toothpaste-based” transistor to make electronics edible, the IIT project: how it works

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 ...

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NASA’s Europa Clipper mission launched with SpaceX: it will study the habitability of a Jupiter moon

The moment of Europa Clipper’s launch from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, aboard a Space X Falcon Heavy rocket. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett Successful launch for the probe Europa Clipper from NASA: Monday October 14, 2024 at 6.06pm Italians launched the largest probe ever built for an interplanetary mission from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, with destination Jupiter, where it will ...