Profile of the Great Sphinx. Credit: Petar Milošević What happened to the nose from the Great Sphinx of Gizain Egyptis a curiosity that has fascinated for centuries. Over time, there have been many theories to explain the absence of the nose of the large sculpture, and one of the most famous wants it to have been knocked down by a ...
It’s the middle of summer and the sbeaches they are full of tourists And bathersbut the waters they filled up more than usual with jellyfishalso due to the climate change. In fact, in Italy, as in the whole Mediterranean, jellyfish are increasing. In our seas there are stinging or poisonous jellyfish, but also harmless species. Let’s see together what they ...
Credits: ESA. The mission JUICE (Jupiter ICy moons Explorer) of the European Space Agency (ESA), launched in April 2023 and headed towards Jupiter’s icy moons, has successfully performed the first maneuver double gravity slingshot and the first overflight (fly by) combined of the Earth and the Moon in history. This orbital maneuver, called ALLOY (Lunar Earth Gravity Assist), was an ...
If you are still hesitant to use AI and tools like ChatGPT, Gemini and Llama still make you a little “scared” about the potential negative effects of AI on today’s society, you should know that in reality it is likely that you are still using AI in your daily life. In this article we will show you 4 AI Technologies ...
That rhythm unmistakable and persistent that accompanies us on warm days from June to September – unlike crickets, which chirp in the dark – is the sound emitted by cicadas which, contrary to what Aesop’s famous fable “the ant and the grasshopper” says, are insects particularly active. But why do we only hear them in the summer? cicadas they are ...
The Canadian Shield is made up of remnants of the primordial crust, dating back about 4 billion years. The ways in which, between 4 and 2.5 billion years agoon the surface of our planet were formed the first continents are often the subject of debate among scientists. A new study, conducted by David Hernandez Uribea professor at the University of ...
The mountain can be a treacherous environment and unfortunately in case of emergency you need to know how to behave, what number to call (the 112) and how to communicate with the rescue helicopter. So now let’s go over step by step everything that needs to be done, based on the instructions provided by the National Alpine and Speleological Rescue ...
Downburst (archive image). Credit: Couch–scratching–cats, CC BY–SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons To cause the sinking of the Bayesian Yachts off the coast of Little Port (PA) in the early hours of the July 19, 2024 it would not have been a waterspout on the sea, that is, a waterspout, but a downburst (which in Italian could be translated as “burst ...
In 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) re-declared the Monkeypox (also called mbox) as a health emergency of international concern, underlining the seriousness of the situation following the spread of a new strain of the virus. Sweden and Spain have recently recorded their first cases of mpox. In this context, we interviewed Nicolò Binello, technical officer at the World Health ...
THE’asteroid which caused theextinction of the dinosaurs non-avian 66 million years agoas well as over 70% of living species at the time, probably came from the Solar System externalbeyond the orbit of Jupiter, according to a new study presented in the journal Science. The hypothesis that an asteroid caused the Cretaceous mass extinction gained ground in 1990 thanks to the ...