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Critical raw materials in Italy, updated map and new ISPRA database published

Map of critical raw materials in Italy. Source: ISPRA L’ISPRA (Higher Institute for Environmental Protection and Research) has published the updated GeMMA (Geological, Mining, Museum and Environmental) database of Mineral Resources present in Italy, including the critical raw materialsthat is, those raw materials that have great economic importance but whose supply is limited. This database is essential for processing the ...

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The Perseverance rover may have found evidence of microbial life on Mars in a rock

Credit: NASA/JPL–Caltech/MSSS The Rover Perseverance of NASA, renamed “the six-wheeled geologist“, may have found on the surface of Mars one of the best directions chemical signatures and structures created by microbial life forms that are thought to have inhabited the red planet billions of years ago. This is the conclusion, for now partial, that NASA researchers have reached by analyzing ...

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Where do the names of the 12 months of the year come from? Meaning and origin month by month

The term “month” comes from Latin monthwhich in turn is related to Greek men: both mean “lunar month” or “moon”, that is, the star that first gave the ancients the idea of ​​the division of time. The division of the year into seasons, months, weeks and days has ancient origins and today the Gregorian calendaror solar calendar, is the system ...

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How the Paris 2024 Olympic Torch Works and What Happens If the Flame Goes Out

Credit: ICO One of the most iconic symbols of the Olympics is certainly the Olympic torchprotagonist of the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympics. By tradition, the Olympic flame is lit at Olympiain Greece, and which has the task of carrying the flame by the hands of thousands of torchbearers to the city hosting the Olympic Games. The design changes ...

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Water crisis and water rationing in Sicily: data and countermeasures

Sicily is severely affected by the water crisisputting in crisis especially the provinces of Agrigento, Catania and Palermo, where fears of a decline in tourism are growing. low rainfall of 2024 have led to the drying up of rivers and the Draining of several reservoirslacking volumes of water useful for users. The discussion on the water crisis has intensified in ...

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New fabric invented that lowers temperature: how it works and what materials it is made of

The conditioner and the fan are they really the only solution to the scorching heat and summer heat waves? Researchers at the University Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering of Chicago have found another way. The research group has developed a new material which manages to break down the temperature of the wearer. This material is a multilayer that starts with ...

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Do heat pumps reduce costs and polluting emissions?

Heat pumps are highly energy efficient devices that offer the possibility of obtaining heating and air conditioning for the home with a single system. In recent years their popularity has increased due to lower consumption and better efficiency compared to traditional systems. These advantages therefore lead to economic savings, but also a lower environmental impact of our homes. But how ...

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How the eco-friendly cardboard and plastic beds of the Paris 2024 Olympics are made

Have you ever slept on some cardboard beds? Maybe not you, but the participants in the Paris Olympics 2024yes. They had already done it at the last Summer Olympics in Tokyo 2020, so nothing new for them. But it is undoubtedly a curious choice: why cardboard beds? Well, there are many reasons: first of all because they are easy to ...

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What are the deepest pools in the world and in Italy? You can go down to 60 meters

Credits: Deep Dive Dubai There deepest pool in the world and the Deep Dive Dubaiin Dubai, United Arab Emirates. This is a type of swimming pool that has nothing to do with leisure and mass tourism, unlike the largest swimming pool in the world (the Citystars Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt), and is specialized in deep diving. With a capacity of ...