Starliner docked at the ISS. Credit: NASA The first manned flight of Starlinerthe space capsule made by Boeing to carry astronauts to the International Space Station, is proving to be a real odyssey For Sunita Williams And Barry Wilmorethe two NASA astronauts who left on June 5, 2024 for the orbital outpost and are currently stuck in the Space Station. ...
Credit: Samsung. The smart ring or, if you prefer, smart ringsare wearable devices that combine the convenience of a wearable accessory with the advanced technology of the most advanced wearable. Small, light and discreet, these rings are typically worn on the index finger and are very similar to normal rings, but are able to monitor health of the wearer by ...
Mata Hari: a name, a legend. This enchanting Dutch dancer – whose real name was Margaretha Geertruida Zelle – who was tried and shot for treason in France, because she was considered an enemy spy during the First World War. But was she really a traitor? There are many imaginative stories surrounding her. Hers, however, was truly fascinating: having recovered ...
The Tokyo Metropolitan Area External Drainage SystemThe “G-Cans Project” also known as the Tokyo Underground Tunnel, is an underground hydraulic infrastructure for the control of floodsand is the largest in the world. It was built between 1992 and 2006, at a cost of approximately 2.5 billion euros, and consists of a complex of 6.4 km of tunnellocated up to 50 ...
If you’re worried that a day at the pool might ruin your tan, don’t worry: chlorine, used as a disinfectant in swimming pools, It has no effect on melanin (the molecule responsible for tanning). Pool water does not remove your tan and has no bleaching effect on our skin. If after a day at the pool you see your tan ...
Credit: TreeLab Oleg Kuchurivsky, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons We are approaching the peak of the Perseidsthe August meteor shower known as “tears of San Lorenzo”. Traditionally, “shooting stars” – which are not stars but small meteors that become incandescent upon contact with the Earth’s atmosphere – fall on the night of August 10thbut in reality the Perseid swarm is active ...
One Thousand and One Nights It is one of the most famous classics of oriental literature in the world, in which we find characters such as Princess Shahrazad, Aladdin and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. The expression “open Sesame” has its origins in this famous fairy tale. In the course of the story, the young Ali Baba discovers a ...
Today, August 8, 2024, Japan shook with two strong earthquakes very close together off the east coast ofKyushu Islandin the south of the country: according to the USGS, the first shock (depth 29 km) at 9.42 Italian time (16.42 local time) was magnitude 6.9while the second one (depth 20 km) at 9.43 was more intense and recorded magnitude 7.1also confirmed ...
THE cetaceans (placental aquatic mammals that include whales, dolphins, killer whales, porpoises, narwhals and belugas) represent a large group of marine mammals, whose in-depth study has allowed us to understand more about intraspecific communication methods, ways and strategies of action and relationship between individuals over the last 40 years. Some cetaceans have the ability to emit sound wavesthanks to which ...
Among the natural wonders of the Okinawa Islandsin the far southwest of Japan, we can find some beaches with a unique feature, which the Japanese call Hoshizuna no Hamaliterally “star shaped sand”. In fact, these beaches are formed by tiny “grains” star-shaped and for several years they have been characterized as a famous tourist destination in some islands of Okinawa ...