Image of Jupiter obtained by the Juno probe on February 12, 2019. The iconic red spot is visible at the top right. Credits: Enhanced image by Kevin M. Gill (CC–BY) based on images provided courtesy of NASA/JPL–Caltech/SwRI/MSSS. The gas giant Jupiter would be smaller and more flattened at the poles than previously estimated. A study published in Nature Astronomy in ...
Winning a gold medal at the Olympics requires talent, sacrifice and, sometimes, a significant dose of luck. The story of the former Australian skater Steven Bradbury he is living proof of this. The athlete won an incredible gold in short tracks – the discipline of ice skating – at the Winter Olympic Games Salt Lake City 2002starting as a super ...
Credit: Google. AI Overviewthe feature that generates AI-powered summaries in Google search, is now also available on Gmailthe email service of the Mountain View giant. This marks a key step in the way Gmail users interact with email, bringing the experience gained with AI Overview in the search engine (which has now effectively transformed into a “response engine” that is ...
The expression “love at first sight” comes from French “coup de foudre“and describes with a metaphor thesudden falling in love and intense that happens at the first meeting between two people, as if one struck between them spark. The origin of the expression is uncertain, but it can be placed in 18th century Francewhen the so-called “electric games” were in ...
How many times, after lunch, do we wash the dishes by hand and, once finished washing, we leave the still wet sponge on the sink and then use it again a few hours later, even just to rinse a glass that we will use for drinking. Well, science says we should pay a little attention. Well yes, contrary to what ...
The ski jumping is a sport in which athletes equipped with skiing at the feet they go down the ramp of a special one trampoline at the end of which they take a leap, exploiting speeds of up to 100 km/htrying to land as far away as possible. Often also called “trampoline jumping”, it is one of the most fascinating ...
Hayez’s kiss, but in a more fairy-tale context (image generated with AI) The kiss is one of the more intimate and widespread gestures in the collective imagination, but beyond the borders of European culture, it is not universal at all: not all populations of the world practice it, and it does not always have the same meaning. In Western societiesis ...
The unicorn fish found in Milazzo, Sicily. Credit: MuMa (Milazzo Sea Museum) – Carmelo Isgrò, via Facebook A rare animal was found yesterday on a beach in Milazzo, Sicily unicorn fish (Lophotus lacepede), an “abyssal” creature that lives between 200 and 1,000 meters deep and has been sighted a few times in Mediterranean. The stranded specimen died despite attempts to ...
Image created with AI. The Italian actor Franco Nero received one star in the Walk of Fame, the famous walk of Hollywood dedicated to excellent personalities from the world of entertainment, from music to cinema and theatre. Known internationally, Nero has a 60-year career behind him, with more than 240 films, from Django (and the famous cameo in Django Unchained) ...
It is among the most iconic and majestic birds of prey in the Arctic Circleimmortalized in the pages of Harry Potter with the name of Edwige: it is the snowy owl, Bubo scandiacus. A species that presents peculiar morphological and behavioral characteristics that differentiate it from other members of the Strigidae family, which includes other owls, owls and tawny owls. ...