Ecology

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New fabric invented that lowers temperature: how it works and what materials it is made of

The conditioner and the fan are they really the only solution to the scorching heat and summer heat waves? Researchers at the University Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering of Chicago have found another way. The research group has developed a new material which manages to break down the temperature of the wearer. This material is a multilayer that starts with ...

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Do heat pumps reduce costs and polluting emissions?

Heat pumps are highly energy efficient devices that offer the possibility of obtaining heating and air conditioning for the home with a single system. In recent years their popularity has increased due to lower consumption and better efficiency compared to traditional systems. These advantages therefore lead to economic savings, but also a lower environmental impact of our homes. But how ...

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How the eco-friendly cardboard and plastic beds of the Paris 2024 Olympics are made

Have you ever slept on some cardboard beds? Maybe not you, but the participants in the Paris Olympics 2024yes. They had already done it at the last Summer Olympics in Tokyo 2020, so nothing new for them. But it is undoubtedly a curious choice: why cardboard beds? Well, there are many reasons: first of all because they are easy to ...

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What are the deepest pools in the world and in Italy? You can go down to 60 meters

Credits: Deep Dive Dubai There deepest pool in the world and the Deep Dive Dubaiin Dubai, United Arab Emirates. This is a type of swimming pool that has nothing to do with leisure and mass tourism, unlike the largest swimming pool in the world (the Citystars Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt), and is specialized in deep diving. With a capacity of ...

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Watermelon, watermelon, melon: all the Italian ways to call the summer fruit

The fruit that you see on the cover of this article comes called many different things depending on part of Italy where you are located: watermelon, calabash, melon, sandia, patacca and many others. In standard Italian, however, There is no “correct” way to refer to it: the various terms, in particular watermelon and cocomero, are accepted and used according to ...

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What does the Paris 2024 Olympics mascot represent?

Credit: Olympic Phryge © Paris 2024 The Olympics are about to begin of Paris 2024 and you may have come across a curious red mascot (with white and blue accents, recreating the colours of the French flag) with a triangular shape in two versions, Olympic and Paralympic, with the Paris 2024 logo on the chest. But what does it represent, ...

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How to build a big ship? The video directly on the shipyard

In this video we take you to one of the shipyards largest in the world, that of Fincantieri in Monfalconein the province of Gorizia, to show you all the work that goes into building a large ship. The surprising thing is that it is almost an artisanal job, because there is no assembly line, like for cars: each ship is ...

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Apple Maps Now Available in Beta on the Web: Here’s How to Try It on Your Browser

Yesterday it was made Apple Maps public beta available on the web. In other words, it is now possible to use Apple Maps by acting from a browser and not only from the official application of the service (available only on iOS, iPadOS and macOS). At the moment the Apple Maps interface is available in English only and works with ...

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Solar storm coming to Earth and global radio blackout, let’s debunk the alarmists with the data

In the last few days, they have been created unjustified alarmism on the possible arrival of a geomagnetic storm and an international radio blackout for tomorrow Friday July 26, 2024 (but in reality, as we will see, no geomagnetic storm is forecast for Friday) according to observations from NASA’s Solar Dynamic Observatory. Many media outlets and newspapers have chosen headlines ...

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10 curiosities about Calabria: from spicy ‘nduja to the Riace Bronzes

Located in the far south of the Italian peninsula, the Calabria it is the wonderful land that forms the “tip” of our boot: the region, in fact, stretches out like an imposing catwalk between Sea Tyrrhenianto the west, and the Sea Ionianto the east and southeast.Exploring Calabria means immersing yourself in a wild and rugged land with an essence strongly ...