The Safety Car at the 2009 Japanese GP, a Mercedes–Benz SL 63 AMG in action. Credit: via Wikimedia Commons There Safety Car (or peace car) is a high-performance Formula 1 safety car that enters the track whenever dangerous situations occur such as serious accidents, extreme weather conditions or when the Marshalls (track stewards) have to rearrange the barriers perhaps due ...
A Meta data center. Credit: Meta Data Center Recently an alarming piece of news began circulating on Facebook, Instagram, Reddit and various Substack authors: i Meta data centerMark Zuckerberg’s technology giant, would have completely dried up the Rio Grande in New Mexico. The accusations pointed the finger at the complex Los Lunasaccused of consuming so much water that it emptied ...
When you think of a tent, your imagination immediately runs to camping tents or, at most, picturesque circus tents. Yet, the largest tent in the world is the Khan Shatyr Entertainment Center of Astana, Kazakhstan. Supported by a monumental tall steel mast 150 meters and heavy 2,000 tonsthis colossal tensile structure covering an area of 127,000 m2 is a true ...
From the rainbow flag first flown in 1978 in San Francisco, designed by Gilbert Baker commissioned by the politician and activist Harvey Milk, until its most recent evolution, the inclusive intersex pride flagcreated by Valentino Vecchietti in 2021, the LGBTQAI+ flags they have evolved over time to embrace, include and respect all different identities, declinations and preferences in the sexual ...
While stroking newborns’ heads, you may have noticed some soft areaswhich sometimes seem to pulsate. They are the fountainsone of the most elegant solutions that evolution has ever devised for dealing with childbirth and allowing the brain to continue to grow once outside the womb. In fact, newborns are born with their skull bones still not completely mergedbut held together ...
TO Porto Sant’Elpidioin the province of Fermo (Marche) this morning at dawn, a residential building collapsed following an explosion. The requests for help on 112, sent from nearby streets, arrived shortly after 5am. For the moment the toll is one victim, a 47-year-old man, three injured and a woman missing. The causes of the explosion in via Trentino still remain ...
Image generated with AI for illustrative purposes only. In the last few months dozens of WhatsApp accounts have been compromised in Italy through an insidious and disturbing technique, documented by Antonio De BortoliIT technician specialized in computer forensics, whose analyzes complement those of the team Forensic and the expert Paolo Da Checcoconverging on a worrying picture. A definite attack “zero ...
Donald Trump and Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei in a tug of war. Image for example purposes created with AI. Continuously announced and then denied, the final agreement between Iran and the United States still looks like a diplomatic mirage. From the wall to wall on nuclear power to Israeli operations in Lebanon, up to the energy blackmail on the Strait of ...
There are emotions that science can measure and others that can only be felt; some have a precise name, others remain untranslatable, suspended between language and culture. Some words, such as saudade, are now part of psychological literature; others are neologisms which, without claiming to become the subject of science, can boast the fact of having been proven at least ...
The International Space Station. Credit: NASA There NASA he ordered four astronauts aboard the International Space Station to remain sheltered in the Crew Dragon spacecraft and prepare for a possible evacuation, because of one air leak worsened in Russian form Zvezda: at the moment, the alarm went away and the crew returned inside the station. The astronauts had been ordered ...