In a few days the Earth will gain about two months of second celestial companion in addition to the Moon. Two Spanish astronomers, Carlos of the Fountain Marcos And Raul of the Marcos Fountainthey have in fact discovered, thanks to the telescopes of theAsteroid Terrestrial impact Last Alert system in South Africa, a small asteroid of about 10 meterscalled 2024 PT5That ...
More and more people are looking for job positions where the contractual conditions include: smart working (also called teleworking or remote working). In fact, many individuals say they feel better working without having to deal with daily traffic, being able to organize the day according to their own needs or those of their family members, or simply appreciate being able ...
Credit: OpenAI. OpenAI o1-preview And OpenAI o1-mini These are two new models based on artificial intelligence which, although still in a development phase, have demonstrated that solve problems posed in a more proactive and “reasoned” way compared to GPT-4o. At the moment, however, the use of the latter is recommended in the vast majority of uses. The new models of ...
There nanotechnology – that is, the control of matter on a nanometer scale, that is, a billionth of a meter – is not science fiction, rather, it is part of nature itself. An example? The butterfly Blue Morpho. This is a moth that lives in the forests of Central and South America whose wings are electric blue thanks to some ...
How do the boats of theAmerica’s Cup to “fly” on the water? It may seem incredible, but these boats long 21 meters, 5 meters wideheavy 6.9 tons (including the crew), can rise more than a metre from the sea and reach impressive speeds, up to 100 km/husing only the wind. The secret behind this “magic” are foils, advanced technological wings ...
Latrodectus tredecimguttatus (bad mincemeat). Credit: Onofrio Panzarino, via Wikimedia Commons There Malmignatta or Black Widow (Latrodectus tredecimguttatus) together with the Violin Spider (Red-bellied Loxosceles) is one of the two species of spiders present in Italy whose bite can cause symptoms of a certain medical importance. This spider is found in mainly dry, stony and arid areas for example between walls ...
The sculpture of the great winged lion in bronze that has guarded for centuries St. Mark’s Square and the whole lagoon of Venice, positioned at the apex of a column facing the sea called precisely the Column of San Marco, may not actually be Venetian, but Chinese. Moreover, it probably does not even depict a lion. The study of two ...
«Hi, I hope I’m not bothering you! I need your help for…». If you receive a WhatsApp message that has a incipit of this kind and which comes from numbers with foreign prefixes – for example +62 (Indonesia), +370 (Lithuania), +223 (Mali), +84 (Vietnam) – be careful, as you could fall victim to a cybercriminal. In fact, these days there ...
The September 16, 2023 a huge landslide broke away from Dickson Fjord, in a remote area of the Greenland north-easterncaused a megatsunamithat is, a very violent tsunami. A recent study by German researchers from the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences and the Institute for Geosciences at the University of Potsdam has clarified the dynamics of the phenomenon by analyzing ...
Have you ever looked at someone’s face and said, for example, “You really have the face of Giovanni!“? Well, you should know that a 2024 study, conducted by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has actually investigated the possible correspondence between people’s first names and their facial appearance. In other words, the researchers wondered if there really is a tendency for ...