Have you ever listened to a song that you hadn’t heard for years and had the feeling of having returned, for a few moments, to another moment of your life? A holiday, school, an evening with friends, a person you haven’t seen for a while. First smile. Then comes a different feeling: a bit of melancholy, perhaps the desire to ...
Credits: Unsplash A smartphones it can stay off for months, be used very little and still end up with one drums which has lost some of its capacity compared to when it was new. It may seem counterintuitive: if it isn’t used, why should it deteriorate? The point is that a lithium ion battery is not a simple “tank” in ...
Image generated with AI. To understand how large and functional an ancient port was, it is not enough to measure its piers or the surface of the basin. This is the conclusion at the center of a new study published in Antiquitieswithin the project SHIPs (Ships Harboring In Ports), which proposes to consider the port as a much larger systemalso ...
If you were to think of the city with the most extensive subway lines, London, New York or maybe Paris would probably come to mind. In reality, the record does not belong to any of the three and in fact, they are not even in the top 10 in the world. The record is in fact in the hands of ...
Io’s north polar region imaged by Juno. Credits: NASA/JPL–Caltech For the first time scientists have managed to measure the temperature under the crust of IJupiter’s moon volcanically more active of the Solar System. The NASA probe succeeded Junowhich has been orbiting the gas giant since 2016. Thanks to the tool Microwave Radiometer (MWR) was possible map the temperature of the ...
«But who is the most beautiful puppy in the world?». If you have a pet, you have probably said a phrase like this at least once using a voice very different from the one you would use to speak to another adult. More acutemore melodic and with a decidedly more expressive tone. That’s what we commonly call “baby talk”and the ...
AI generated image for illustrative purposes Setter, opposite, central, spiker. Anyone watching a volleyball match hears these names repeated as if they were official categories, comparable to the goalkeeper in football. In the international rules of the game however, they never appear. The rules mention only six numbered positions, the difference between first and second line and a single truly ...
All life we know on Earth writes its own genetic instructions in DNA with the exact same four-letter alphabet: A (adenine), T (thymine), C (cytisine) and G (guanine). But what if there was a DNA with double the letters? Not science fiction: it already exists, it’s called Hachimoji DNA (“eight letters” in Japanese), and was built in a laboratory. Unlike ...
THE’Oculus of New York, designed by star architect Santiago Calatrava, is one of the symbols of the city’s rebirth after theSeptember 11th. Also known as World Trade Center Stationthis architectural work is a true monument to memory. Its steel and glass silhouette represents in fact one dove about to take flightor, a message of peace and hope nestled in the ...
A comparison between the 2015 El Niño, on the left, and the 1987 El Niño, on the right. Credit: NASA29 When we talk about El Niño we are not referring to a simple period of good weather or a few unseasonably hot days. In climatology, theENSO (El Niño-Southern Oscillation) is the most powerful driver of interannual climate variability on the ...