There are fossil fuels, carbon dioxide, butter and Bill Gates in a room. It seems like a joke, but these four things are closely connected. The startup Savora company run by Orca Sciences in which Bill Gates is an investor, has begun producing butter in the laboratory using as starting elements thecarbon dioxide (CO2), fuels fossils And hydrogen (obtained from ...
The return currents (or rip currents, sometimes improperly called rip currents) are a type of ocean current that forms when the waves are particularly intense and move from the beaches or coasts towards the open sea. They can be recognized by noticing a portion of blue sea in the middle of the white breakers of the waves, with a flatter ...
Artificial Intelligence: two words that scare many, that bring to mind Isaac Asimov’s novels and the feeling of losing control in favor of machines. AI seemed so far away until recently, an application that we would discover slowly, and especially in the future. Yet, the future is already here: already in everyday life when we work with our PCs or ...
AI generated image According to what is reported by the specialized website WABetaInfo, Whatsapp is working on a new and interesting feature for its web client, thanks to which it should be possible create unique usernames as it happens on other messaging platforms like Telegram. Discovered last year by WABetaInfothis feature will allow users to customize their profiles and connect ...
In the night between July 22nd and 23rdat 4:08the INGV surveillance webcams on Etna have shown the recovery of theStrombolian activity at Voragine Cratergiving life to a lava fountain and to a lava overflow at the edge of the Bocca Nuova crater. This event does not come completely unexpectedly: in the last few weeks the Sicilian volcano has already given ...
The DNA it’s a molecule essential for the lifewhich with its characteristic double helix molecular structure encodes all the information that regulate the functioning of organisms. Despite its importance, it is surprising to discover how much it is long: human DNA can extend for approximately 2 meters! But how can such a long filament fit inside a single cell? Well, ...
38.1 million Italians they travel by road every day and do so on average for 47 km. According to some estimates They travel 1.8 billion kilometers every daywhich is equivalent to 12 times the distance between planet Earth and the Sun. Well the89% of Italians choose rubber over other forms of mobility (such as the plane and the train, which ...
There Papua New Guineaa state in Oceania with its capital Port Moresby, is the Country where the most languages are spoken in the world. In fact, many have been recognised and registered on the national territory 841 different languagesalthough the only three official languages in the State are English, Tok Pisin and Hiri Motu. This characteristic of Papua New Guinea, ...
There Papua New Guineaa state in Oceania with its capital Port Moresby, is the Country where the most languages are spoken in the world. In fact, many have been recognised and registered on the national territory 841 different languagesalthough the only three official languages in the State are English, Tok Pisin and Hiri Motu. This characteristic of Papua New Guinea, ...
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Alex Parker We are all fond of Plutothis cold, distant world that we learned to love in school books as the final frontier of the Solar System, and which inspired mass culture by giving its name to Mickey Mouse’s dog, Pluto, or to the radioactive element Plutonium. It is therefore not surprising ...