The confine international shortest in the world is the one that separates the territory of the two sovereign states of Botswana and of Zambia (in southern Africa), also known as “Kazungula border“, from the name of the city that stands near the short border. Its length is just 150 meters and is located in the center of the course Zambezi ...
The soap it is one of the household products most used by man. Despite its enormous global diffusion and constant daily use, the chemistry behind its production is often little known. In this video we want to explore the process saponificationthe reaction chemistry which allows you to transform oils and fats in soap. To do this, we made a experiment ...
In recent days, news has appeared in the media that a new study has demonstrated the Spanish origins and not Genoese Of Christopher Columbusthe explorer known throughout the world for the “discovery” of America in 1492. Many Italian, Spanish and other newspapers have in fact claimed, in sensationalist tones, that the navigator belonged to a Jewish family living in the ...
After the July tests, from October 23, 2024 the digital wallet IT-Wallet will begin to be available inIO app for the first round of 50,000 Italians, and starting from December 4, 2024 all citizens will have access to this service. IT-Wallet allows you to have some documents – initially license, health card And European Disability Charter – in digital format ...
Scientists have been studying the hardening mechanism of bread for centuries, but the truth is that this has not been entirely well defined. What we know for sure is that there are mainly two causes responsible for this alteration. There redistribution Of humidity between crust and crumb and the transformation of starch, more specifically the so-called starch retrogradationin which amylose ...
A edible transistor based on pigments present in toothpaste to monitor the state of health of the human body from the inside: this is the idea behind the creation of a group of researchers from the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Milan led by Elena Feltriwho created a transistor from copper phthalocyanine, used as a whitener in toothpaste. A ...
The moment of Europa Clipper’s launch from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, aboard a Space X Falcon Heavy rocket. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett Successful launch for the probe Europa Clipper from NASA: Monday October 14, 2024 at 6.06pm Italians launched the largest probe ever built for an interplanetary mission from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, with destination Jupiter, where it will ...
Currently there are approximately human beings inhabiting the Earth 8.2 billion: twice as many as we were in 1974. However, the distribution of the population on the surface of the globe is by no means uniform: large regions of the planet are still desert covering hundreds of thousands of square kilometres, so much so that some countries, such as Iceland, ...
A new online scam is back in the spotlight after the Provincial Command of the Carabinieri of Parma raised the alarm with the aim of making citizens aware of its danger: it is the “Like” scamwhich exploits thesocial engineering to steal money after soliciting via instant messaging platforms and requesting likes on social platforms such as Instagram in exchange for ...
The Prize from the Bank of Sweden of 2024 for Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel, commonly called Nobel Prize for Economics (but not foreseen in the creator’s will), this year it was awarded to three great economists: Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson (both from MIT in Boston) e James A. Robinson (of the University of Chicago) who, with their ...