Ecology

Uragano Milton

Hurricane Milton towards Florida, winds up to 250 km/h and citizens evacuated: NHC forecasts

Hurricane Milton over the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. Credit: VIIRS imagery from the NOAA–21 Satellite THE’Hurricane Miltonone of the most violent of 2024, is about to hit the Florida peninsula: the landfall is scheduled for tomorrow Wednesday 9 October in the area of Tampa Bayon the west coast of Florida. In Florida it was declared lo state of emergency as ...

mappa riscaldamento italia

Turning on heating in Italy: dates and map of climate zones

During i coldest months of the year is scheduled forautomatic ignition of heating systems in many Italian homes, although with significant differences from municipality to municipality. In this case, the heating can be turned on between 15 October 2024 and 1 December 2024 depending on the climate zone in which you live. The heating will be turned off between 15 ...

uragano kirk

Hurricane Kirk becomes a post-tropical cyclone: ​​when it arrives in Italy, the forecast

Hurricane Kirk over the Atlantic as seen by the European Sentinel–3 satellite on 3 October 2024. Credit: European Union, Copernicus Sentinel–3 imagery Everywhere we are reading that «theHurricane Kirk is about to arrive in Europe and will touch Italy”, but as usual these titles leave the time they find: Hurricanes don’t arrive in Europe! Kirk was a pretty intense hurricane, ...

nobel medicina 2024 microRNA

What is microRNA, the discovery that won the 2024 Nobel Prize for Medicine for Ambros and Ruvkun

Source: www.nobelprize.org The Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine 2024 it went to the Americans Victor Ambros And Gary Ruvkumboth molecular biologists at MIT in California, for discovering in 1993 The microRNA (small specific RNA sequences involved in gene expression) and its function, which until some time ago had only been hypothesized, linked togene expression and mRNA maturation. MicroRNA is ...

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Hera, the first European mission for planetary anti-asteroid defense, has been launched: here’s what it predicts

The launch of the Hera probe aboard Space X’s Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral. Credit: ESA/Space The probe’s journey begins Herathe first successfully launched European Space Agency (ESA) planetary asteroid defense mission Monday 7 October 2024 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Hera took off at 4.52pm Italians from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a rocket Falcon 9 of Space December 2026 the ...

nobel matematica

Why isn’t there a Nobel Prize for mathematics?

The Nobel Prize it is the most important and prestigious scientific award in the world, with one notable exception: the mathematicseven if in fact this is the discipline that provides the common language for all scientific disciplines. To date, the highest honors in mathematics – so much so that they are called the “Nobel for mathematics” – are the Fields ...

Wearable smartwatch

Smartwatch, smartband, smart ring: are wearable devices a success or a flop?

A smartwatch with an operating system stand-alone. They are called wearableliterally “wearable”. A term that in the electronics market refers to all those devices with smart functions, designed to be worn. Smartwatches (watches), smartband (bracelets) and, more recently, smart rings, a real invasion that over the years has seen several companies enter this particular market. Yes, because contrary to what ...

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Ryanair plane crash in Brindisi, the technical aspects: possible causes and emergency management

The October 3 a plane crash involving flight FR88265 of Ryanair made the news at Brindisi airport. The flight, directed to Bologna and operated by a Boeing 737-800suffered a flame in one of its engines while still on the runway while taxiing. The pilots, reacting promptly, aborted the take-off and brought the plane back to safety. Fortunately, no passengers were ...