Ecology

comunicazione sogni lucidi remspace

Two human beings would communicate with each other via lucid dreams: the REMspace experiment

Credit: REMspace An experiment conducted last September 24th by the Californian startup REMspace would have led to first communication between human beings occurred during a lucid dream (i.e. a dream in which you are aware of being asleep). Two individuals, monitored remotely while sleeping in different homes, were able to exchange a simple message using a advanced technology that detects ...

Porfiria

What is porphyria and why is it called “vampire disease”: symptoms and causes

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...