The Vajont landslide, which occurred on October 9, 1963is perhaps the most tragic example of a natural disaster triggered by human activity.It was the consequence of still immature technical knowledge, errors, considerations and incorrect technical interpretations on the part of the cream of engineers, geologists and geophysicists of the time. The construction of the Vajont dam The Vajont dam was ...
On the night between October 1st and 2nd, Iran launched a massive offensive against Israel in response to the killing of Hassan Nasrallahleader of Hamas, which occurred last September 27 during an Israeli raid on Beirut, and of Ismail Haniyeh, political leader of Hamas, killed in Tehran in an unclaimed attack although attributable to Israel. The attack was conducted with ...
Beware of the insidious “fake verified account scam“: consists of a new attempt at phishing on WhatsApp which has the objective of steal your Facebook login details to obtain sensitive data. This scam is perpetrated by cybercriminals by sending an alarmist message in which they play the “part” of the customer support service. Half (the company that develops WhatsApp, as ...
Credit: Google. Google is releasing new security features (announced during the last Google I/O event) aimed at protect Android smartphones from theft expertly exploiting artificial intelligence to guarantee the security of personal data in the event of theft of the device. These features, delivered through Play Services, include advanced tools, such as automatically locking the device in case of theft ...
A plant of capture and storage of CO₂. Conceptually it is simple: you take the CO2 from industrial waste gases and injects it into gas fields now exhausted, underground. In this way, carbon dioxide is not released into the atmosphere. In this video, we show you the first CO2 capture and storage plant in Italy, in province of Ravenna. It’s ...
Hurricane Milton over the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. Credit: VIIRS imagery from the NOAA–21 Satellite THE’Hurricane Miltonone of the most violent of 2024, is about to hit the Florida peninsula: the landfall is scheduled for tomorrow Wednesday 9 October in the area of Tampa Bayon the west coast of Florida. In Florida it was declared lo state of emergency as ...
During i coldest months of the year is scheduled forautomatic ignition of heating systems in many Italian homes, although with significant differences from municipality to municipality. In this case, the heating can be turned on between 15 October 2024 and 1 December 2024 depending on the climate zone in which you live. The heating will be turned off between 15 ...
Hurricane Kirk over the Atlantic as seen by the European Sentinel–3 satellite on 3 October 2024. Credit: European Union, Copernicus Sentinel–3 imagery Everywhere we are reading that «theHurricane Kirk is about to arrive in Europe and will touch Italy”, but as usual these titles leave the time they find: Hurricanes don’t arrive in Europe! Kirk was a pretty intense hurricane, ...
Source: www.nobelprize.org The Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine 2024 it went to the Americans Victor Ambros And Gary Ruvkumboth molecular biologists at MIT in California, for discovering in 1993 The microRNA (small specific RNA sequences involved in gene expression) and its function, which until some time ago had only been hypothesized, linked togene expression and mRNA maturation. MicroRNA is ...
The launch of the Hera probe aboard Space X’s Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral. Credit: ESA/Space The probe’s journey begins Herathe first successfully launched European Space Agency (ESA) planetary asteroid defense mission Monday 7 October 2024 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Hera took off at 4.52pm Italians from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a rocket Falcon 9 of Space December 2026 the ...