The 22% of Italian families has at least one dog, this figure has been growing in recent years, while the 17% at least one cat. From Christmas gifts to choosing a partner, four-legged friends are now an integral part of the family, which is also willing to change their free time, work and home for them. According to the Istat ...
The exact moment we press “Enter” after typing a website in the browser’s address bar or click on a hyperlink, we initiate an incredibly complex procedure that, in a fraction of a second, shows us the website we were looking for. What appears to us as an instantaneous process is, in reality, a high-speed relay involving a global network of ...
Whoever observes one frog while he eats he often notices a curious detail: while he swallows his prey, he eyes seem to disappear inside the head. It’s a curious impression, at times even unsettling, but apparently, frogs’ eyes play a role in swallowing. Experiments show that, while food is ingested, the eyes can re-enter the oral cavity and touch the ...
Image generated with AI. Because the ambulance sirens they have just that soundwhich seems to change once the emergency vehicle passes us? And the same could also be asked about the jeeps Fire Brigadefor the police car and for other emergency vehicles. We have all heard these sirens at least once in our lives, but perhaps not everyone knows that ...
King Salman Park, Saudi Arabia, compared to Central Park, New York. Image generated with AI. THE’Saudi Arabia has initiated a vast and ambitious plan urban regeneration of the capital, Riyadhfocusing decisively on the valorisation of green areas. Among the most significant projects, the one presented in 2019 stands out King Salman Park: the urban park, conceived as a multipurpose place ...
A new study published in Current Biology by a team of researchers led by Jung-min Oh and Ken-ichi Amemori revealed the brain mechanism that regulates our ability to act in adverse conditions. The driving force behind the work was to answer why there is we block when faced with a difficult taskeven if we aspire to the final prize. It’s ...
Credit: Politikaner/NASA World Wind, Public Domain The researchers managed to map in detail one of the largest underwater landslides of the world, the Stad Slidein the Norwegian Sea. The “mega landslide”, 360 m thick, was triggered well 400,000 years agoprobably due to an earthquake; his volume equal to 4300 km3 and his extension of 46,500 km2comparable to that of Switzerland, ...
Generated with AI The “home track”, the challenging one Stelvio di Bormiogave the first two medals of the Italian Olympic expedition in the downhill: a splendid one silver for Giovanni Franzoni – at his first Olympics – and a bronze for the veteran Dominik Parisbehind only the Swiss Franjo Von Allmen. A dream start in the queen discipline of alpine ...
We all associate February with Carnivala holiday still very much felt throughout the peninsula. However, there are some cities in which this anniversary becomes an evocative celebration: this is the case of the Carnival of Venice. The city is filled with pancakes, costumes and above all masks. Masks are a tradition of Venetian craftsmanship and there are many types, among ...
When iron reacts with oxygen, a series of compounds are formed that accumulate on the metal surface, giving rise to what we know as rust. The best home methods for eliminating it include mechanical removal via abrasion and the use of chemical-based reagents acidssuch as citric and acetic acid present in lemon juice and in thewhite vinegarwhich interact with rust ...