How are a country’s oil reserves calculated? When it comes to reserves of petrolium we tend to imagine a number carved in stone, objective, certified. In reality the estimates of oil reserves are the result of a mix complex between geology, engineering, mathematics, economy and, surprisingly, geopolitics. The country with the most declared reserves in the world today is not ...
Image created with AI for illustrative purposes only. There is a technique called Marine Cloud Brightening (MCB)which in Italian we could translate as the “clearing of the marine clouds”, with which the human being is thinking of “cure” global warming by artificially modifying the Earth’s atmosphere: a new solar geoengineering study states that this technique, designed to cool the Earth, ...
The Nobel Prize winner for physics Giorgio Parisi. Image created for illustrative purposes only. The Nobel Prize for Physics Giorgio Parisi and his colleague Francesco Zamponi they managed to solve a problem remained open for more than 10 years thanks to the support of Claude, the AI developed by Anthropic. The result, published in “Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and ...
Borges labyrinth. Photo Matteo De Fina, Courtesy Cini Foundation. On the island of San Giorgio Maggiore a Veniceone of the most evocative and fascinating places in Italy is about to reopen to the public: the Borges labyrinth. Inaugurated in 2011 in the green spaces of Giorgio Cini Foundation in homage to the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (Buenos Aires, 1899 ...
A group of researchers fromETH Zurich has developed a new technology which could represent an important step towards overcoming the limits of pixels, Fourier pixels, bidirectional. Pixels are the fundamental elements of every digital image, but not all perform the same function. Those that make up the screens of smartphones, computers and televisions they serve to generate the images we ...
Quantum teleportation is already a reality Being here and an instant later finding yourself on the other side of the worldwithout planes and without suitcases. The teleportation it is one of the most fascinating dreams, but it really is just science fiction? The answer is more surprising than you think: the teleportation of matter stay impossiblebut that of information it ...
Photo by the Geopop editorial team, taken from the Navigli area of Milan. A column of black smoke visible from miles away in the skies of Lainate, in the province of Milan. It was created by a fire exploded shortly after 2.30pm inside the“L’Agricola” farmhousein via Rho, which attracted the attention of motorists and residents throughout the Alto Milanese area. ...
Image created with AI The expression “carlona” it is a pillar of everyday speech, which indicates the carrying out of an activity in an approximate and coarse, or hasty way. It is used throughout Italy and, in particular, in Lombardy. Behind this apparently simple expression lies a thousand-year history that intertwines the figure ofEmperor Charlemagnehanded down as clumsy and a ...
The heat wave coming to Europe. Credit: ECMWF From Wednesday 8 July Italy has officially entered the grip of third heat wave of the summer season. The expansion ofAfrican anticyclone it is already causing high temperatures, with maximum temperatures reaching i 38-39°C over much of the central-northern plains. Medium-term forecasts indicate that this will not be a passing phenomenon: the ...
Geraint Thomas and Chris Froome on Alpe d’Huez at the Tour de France 2018 – Credit: Konstantin Kleine via Wikimedia Commons Nello sport we are used to often taking for granted that a WIN be the athlete stronger, more powerful or faster. In cycling, however, there is a situation in which this rule is reversed: when the road begins to ...