There RP FLIPan acronym that stands for “Floating Instrument Platform”was an Office of Naval Research laboratory “ship” capable of rising vertically in about 30 minutes thanks to a controlled sinking. Built in 1962 and in operation until 2023, when it was dismantled, it was more precisely a research platform and in fact it had no engines and could not move ...
Today is the news of a accident at Brindisi airport: at 8:35 a.m. aboard a Boeing 737 of Ryanair bound for Turin there was a start of fire in one of the engines. Fortunately none of the 184 passengers of flight FR8826 was injured and they were all evacuated without problems via the emergency slides and now the Salento airport ...
Artist’s impression of a sub-terrestrial mass planet orbiting Barnard’s Star. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser. Finding an Earth-like planet in our cosmic neighborhood would be a momentous discovery, likely humankind’s greatest. Precisely for this reason, astronomers focus their attention on the star systems closest to us in search of extrasolar planets that meet these characteristics. The news that the astronomers of the ...
From 9 to 12 October the national exercise will be held at the Campi Flegrei “EXE Flegrei 2024”, the third and final exercise of the Civil Protection scheduled for this year in the area. Unlike those of April and May, which concerned the risk of bradyseism, this one concerns the volcanic risktherefore relating to the possibility of an eruption in ...
The annular solar eclipse of October 2, 2024 as seen from Easter Island. Credit: timeanddate.com Punctual as only astronomical phenomena can be, theAnnular solar eclipse gave a show yesterday October 2, 2024 in the skies of much of South America. The luckiest were the 175,000 inhabitants in band of annularity which crossed southern Chile, southern Argentina and Easter Island: in ...
The Body Mass Index (in acronym BMI and in Italian Body Mass Index), invented by Adolphe Quetelet in the 19th century, it is a system for classifying body weight, adopted by the WHO in the 20th century for more immediate identification overweight And obesity. The Index presents however significant limitations and in this regard an emblematic case is that of ...
With the deadline fast fashion refers to a rather widespread practice in the clothing world which consists in continuously producing collections of low-cost and poor-quality garments. In recent years, the appearance of large economic chains and oriented towards a younger audience has led to an acceleration in the production and number of collections available, following viral trends almost in real ...
If you are a regular user of social platforms, you will have used it countless times. What are we referring to? Al “Like” buttonObviously. Have you ever wondered how the “Like” button was born and why it has become so popular on social media? Well, you should know that the “like” was not invented by Facebookbut was first introduced on ...
You’re watching GeopolitiX Don’t miss out on more content from Geopop Who will become the new president of the United States of America? Former Republican President Donald Trump or the vice-president of the Biden administration, the Democrat Kamala Harris? What is certain is that the electionsdated Tuesday November 5 2024are actually already underway regarding postal voting ei national polls they ...
Due to not very gentle movements, the yogurt can splatter and settle on the flap of the jar that acts as a lid. But why does it stay there attacked like a stalactite? And why does it seem to be thicker (better “viscous”) than the yogurt that remains in the jar? To answer these questions we must take into consideration ...