A’highway over 20,000 km long to connect theEurope to the United States (from London to New York) crossing the Russia: this is the idea proposed in 2015 by Vladimir Yakuninthen president of the Russian RailwaysThe project, called Trans-Eurasian Belt Developmenthas sparked much discussion but, in the end, has been shelved. But what would this infrastructure have been like? And which ...
THE tetrapods They are hydraulic engineering works intended for the coastal defensemade of concrete, which act as breakwaters and are characterised by various geometric shapes which allow for optimization of hydraulic and structural performance. They can be partially submerged and have, specifically, the function of protecting the shore profile from the unwanted effects of the sea in adverse weather conditions. ...
THE talaiotfrom the Catalan “small tower”, are the prehistoric structures (dating back to 1200-1000 BC) most famous and particular of Majorca and above all Minorcathe two largest islands of the archipelago of Balearic Islandsin the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Spain. These are structures “cyclopean” (term used to indicate ancient structures built with dry stonesince in ancient times they ...
What the Earth’s surface would look like without water. Credit: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio More than 70% of the Earth’s surface is covered by waterfall: but what would our planet look like if this disappeared? NASA has provided an answer with an ad hoc model that illustrates the progressive disappearance of the oceans And the emergence of valleys, volcanoes and ...
There school It has existed since approximately 4th millennium BCbut originally it was a very different institution from the current one: in fact, it served to educate the small minority of the population who was supposed to take care of theState administration. Over the centuries, many educational systems have been established in the world, different according to civilization, but only ...
In the second half of the 90s the news has been circulating that Leonardo DaVinciinside his Atlantic Codewould have created the design of the first bicycle model already in the sixteenth century, therefore 3 centuries before the invention of the bicycle. During a restoration of the code on sheet 133 a drawing has actually been found that seems to represent ...
The submarine landslide in the Atlantic Ocean 60,000 years ago. Credit: Dr. Christoph Bottner, Aarhus University. The researchers of theUniversity of Liverpool they managed to map and reconstruct the evolution of a giant underwater landslide happened about 60,000 years ago in the’Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of Africa. The landslide, with a volume of 150 km3has traveled 2000 km ...
You may have heard that cold weather makes you lose weight. In reality, as often happens with clichés related to health, this is not exactly the case. Several studies confirm that when we spend a lot of time in low-temperature environments, the body activates Brown Adipose Tissue (BAT) which increases energy expenditure using fat and glucose to produce heat (thermogenesis) ...
The telephone scams are the order of the day. The news of an increase in calls for the purpose of phishing (or, more precisely, vishing) coming from numbers with the prefix +31 (0031) of the Netherlands. The call, similarly to the scam in Portugal, aims to steal personal information from the victim. Sometimes, this request is made by a recorded ...
There sculpture It is one of the oldest art forms, as we all know. But from the point of view technician, How is a marble statue made? To find out, we went to Naples to the studios of Iagoone of the most famous contemporary Italian artists and sculptors in the world, to witness the creation of the David, a statue ...