It’s the May 1, 1994 And Ayrton Senna has just started the 7th lap in the lead of the San Marino Grand Prix, in Imola. The single-seater is travelling at over 300 km/h when at the entrance to the Tamburello curve the car goes off its trajectory and crashes into the concrete wall. The race against time at the Maggiore ...
If you have registered your mobile and/or landline telephone number at Public register of objections (or RPO), with the hope that this would allow you to say goodbye to wild telemarketing forever, you will probably have changed your mind in a short time by noticing that spam calls have not disappeared from your life forever. This is because Signing up ...
The cracking (literally “split“) is a key process in the hydrocarbon refining which provides for break the longest chains to transform them into lighter products. The crude oil in fact it is a complex mixture of hydrocarbonswhich have different economic values and are not all usable, for example, as energy sources. For optimize the performance of the crude oil this ...
Today, September 2, 2024, at 4:26 in the morning (local time, 10:26 in Italy) an earthquake with magnitude 5.0 hit the east coast of Taiwan, with epicenter at sea approximately 11 km from the city of Hualien. As confirmed by the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the earthquake recorded a depth of 28.7 km – therefore rather superficial – but, ...
Tutankhamunlived between 1343 and 1323 BCwas one of the pharaohs of the New Kingdomthe period of Egyptian history corresponding approximately to the second half of the second millennium BC (it was part of the XVIII dynasty). He was probably the son of Akhenatenthe “heretic” pharaoh, who had attempted to replace the polytheistic religion with the monotheistic cult of the Sun. ...
A caress can determine the correct development of the brain. This sentence may seem strange, or at least do-gooder: and yet, it is the scientifically proven truth. It is often said that maternal care, but above all affection concretely expressed through gestures, such as a caress, make the difference in a child’s growth. Well, if on the one hand psychology ...
In the future the hydrogen vehiclesThe car sharing and the hybrid micromobility they will be increasingly widespread solutions to ensure sustainable mobility. The climate emergency In fact, it is expected to be the main challenge of the 21st century, and in Europe it is estimated that transport is responsible for the 25-30% of climate-altering emissions. To meet the objectives of ...
A’highway over 20,000 km long to connect theEurope to the United States (from London to New York) crossing the Russia: this is the idea proposed in 2015 by Vladimir Yakuninthen president of the Russian RailwaysThe project, called Trans-Eurasian Belt Developmenthas sparked much discussion but, in the end, has been shelved. But what would this infrastructure have been like? And which ...
THE tetrapods They are hydraulic engineering works intended for the coastal defensemade of concrete, which act as breakwaters and are characterised by various geometric shapes which allow for optimization of hydraulic and structural performance. They can be partially submerged and have, specifically, the function of protecting the shore profile from the unwanted effects of the sea in adverse weather conditions. ...
THE talaiotfrom the Catalan “small tower”, are the prehistoric structures (dating back to 1200-1000 BC) most famous and particular of Majorca and above all Minorcathe two largest islands of the archipelago of Balearic Islandsin the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Spain. These are structures “cyclopean” (term used to indicate ancient structures built with dry stonesince in ancient times they ...