The expression “a tough nut to crack” is now commonly used to indicate a nuisance, a hindrance or in general difficult and annoying problem to solve. The origin is found in the rural and popular context, where the cat was an animal often present in homes, but its meaning could be explained with two different interpretations. The first refers to ...
Hurricane Milton. Credit: NOAA THE’Hurricane Milton it is located in the Gulf of Mexico and heads towards Florida, where there are storm, tornado and flood warnings. Milton will make landfall on the west coast of Florida on the night of Wednesday 9 to Thursday 10 October 2024. It turned out to be a hurricane particularly violentwhich reached the twice category ...
The airplane wings they are a fundamental part of the aerodynamic design of every aircraft, and in recent decades called the wingtips winglets have become increasingly important in improving the aerodynamic efficiency of aircraft. But what exactly are winglets, what differentiates them from sharklets used by Airbus, and why do some planes, such as the Boeing 787 and 777, not ...
For inflation means theprogressive increaseover time, of general average price levelresulting in a decrease in the purchase value of a currency. Let’s take an example in simple words: if at a specific moment of the year the level ofinflation is at 10%it means that the prices of the goods and services we can buy (from milk to bread, from clothes ...
Comet C/2023 A3 observed on October 2, 2024. Credit: cafuego, CC BY–SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons The best days for observing the world are beginning “comet of the century” C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS in our hemisphere, which today 9 October 2024 is located at peak of its brightness. This is the first “great comet” in the Northern Hemisphere since the Hale-Bopp ...
The Vajont landslide, which occurred on October 9, 1963is perhaps the most tragic example of a natural disaster triggered by human activity.It was the consequence of still immature technical knowledge, errors, considerations and incorrect technical interpretations on the part of the cream of engineers, geologists and geophysicists of the time. The construction of the Vajont dam The Vajont dam was ...
On the night between October 1st and 2nd, Iran launched a massive offensive against Israel in response to the killing of Hassan Nasrallahleader of Hamas, which occurred last September 27 during an Israeli raid on Beirut, and of Ismail Haniyeh, political leader of Hamas, killed in Tehran in an unclaimed attack although attributable to Israel. The attack was conducted with ...
Beware of the insidious “fake verified account scam“: consists of a new attempt at phishing on WhatsApp which has the objective of steal your Facebook login details to obtain sensitive data. This scam is perpetrated by cybercriminals by sending an alarmist message in which they play the “part” of the customer support service. Half (the company that develops WhatsApp, as ...
Credit: Google. Google is releasing new security features (announced during the last Google I/O event) aimed at protect Android smartphones from theft expertly exploiting artificial intelligence to guarantee the security of personal data in the event of theft of the device. These features, delivered through Play Services, include advanced tools, such as automatically locking the device in case of theft ...
A plant of capture and storage of CO₂. Conceptually it is simple: you take the CO2 from industrial waste gases and injects it into gas fields now exhausted, underground. In this way, carbon dioxide is not released into the atmosphere. In this video, we show you the first CO2 capture and storage plant in Italy, in province of Ravenna. It’s ...