Purely illustrative artistic representation created with AI. Currently, the record for the highest probability of impact between an asteroid and the Earth goes to 2010 RF12a small “space rock” near-Earth of the Apollo group already passed 79,000 km from Earth in 2010 and which has 1 in 10 chance to hit the Earth the 5-6 September 2095. Fortunately, even in ...
Image created with AI. THE’IO appthe official platform of the Italian Public Administration, available free of charge for Android and iOS, allows you to receive reminders about the expiration of your car tax and pay it directly from your smartphone. This system exploits PagoPAthe digital payment platform for the PA, to allow quick transactions with card or current account. The ...
In Italy there are more than 10 thousand padel courts and beyond 2 million practitioners: numbers that make our country the second in the world for the diffusion of this sport, immediately after Spain and ahead of Argentina. Rome is the third city in the world in terms of number of courts, after Madrid and Barcelona, while Lombardy is the ...
THE will-o’-the-wispsfeeble blue flames that dance in the dark without burning anything, without making noise, without heat, surrounded by the mists of the swamp or in a gloomy cemetery in the countryside, are no longer a mystery. They are not the souls of the dead rising to the surface, nor bad omens from the afterlife. A study published a few ...
Among the most compelling and interesting architectural and engineering challenges of the last century, the Chicago Spire Of Santiago Calatrava it was supposed to be the tallest residential building in the world, with ben 150 floors… it’s a shame that things didn’t go well due to the 2008 financial crisis. The skyscraper of 610 meters it should have been built ...
Image created with AI To date we don’t know what the epilogue will be case of the Garlasco crimewhich saw the murder of in 2007 Chiara Poggi (for which the ex-boyfriend was definitively convicted Alberto Stasi) and returned to the headlines due to the appearance of new material relating to Andrea Sempio (associated with the famous footprint 33). In light ...
There European Commission he published new guidelines for the transport sector, hit by the crisis in the Middle East: the closure of Strait of Hormuz in fact, it is also having direct repercussions on the airline sector and, as the summer season approaches, consumers’ concerns about possible cancellations of flights. However, after some airlines asked their passengers to supplement the ...
Overview of Loch Bhorgastail, with the crannog. Credit: Blankshein et al. In the Loch Bhorgastailon the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, in Scotlandthere is a small island that at first glance seems like a natural accumulation of stones. It is instead a so-called “crannog“, aartificial island built by man beyond 5,000 years agoIn the Neolithic. The archaeologists ofUniversity ...
About 219,890 tons of gold were extracted throughout the entire history of humanitystarting from beyond 6000 years ago until today. Of these, beyond the80% it has been undermined over the last century. If you stacked every single coin, jewel, ingot or any other form of gold, you would get a cube with a side of approximately 22 meters. Gold has ...
There is a new geometric figure, the Noperthedron, a convex polyhedron that defies the laws of geometry because it cannot pass inside itself. In mathematics, it is said that the Nopethedron has disproved the Rupert’s propertywhich we will see shortly. But what does it mean that it can’t pass through? Let’s try to understand it with an example. Let’s imagine ...