If you open the fridge at home, try one unpleasant sensation due to the bad smell given off by some spoiled food, place a cork stopper in the middle of the refrigerator it won’t help you to eliminate that unpleasant smell. In fact, it is thought that cork can help us absorb bad smells, even those that persist for several ...
The map of the fan structure in East Antarctica. Credits: E. Armadillo et al., Nature Geoscience Under the ice capEast Antarctica one was discovered vast, previously unknown, fan-shaped structure of the earth’s crustwhich was given the name of East Antarctic Fan-Shaped Basin Province. The structure, identified thanks to satellite data and survey campaigns carried out over many years, is made ...
Map of the underground mushroom network. Credit: SPUN Beneath our feet lies the largest biological infrastructure on the planet: a long, living, invisible network 110 quadrillion kilometersthat is to say almost a billion times the distance between the Earth and the Sun. It is formed by billions of microscopic filaments called hyphae (from Greek hyphe“fabric”), belonging to the so-called arbuscular ...
In Italy an employee earns approximately 13 euros gross per houraccording to the latest available Eurostat data referring to 2022. Net of taxes and contributions, the figure generally reduces to around 8-10 euros net per hour, although the value varies based on income, contract and individual tax situation. The Italian data results lower than the European Union average of 14.91 ...
Have you ever put the hot food directly in the refrigerator? Or the milk in the doorwhy does the space seem made on purpose? In this video we discover that behind every shelf, every drawer and every function of the fridge there is a precise logic and following it really makes the difference. Let’s start with the basics: how the ...
Determining the fastest route between two points is a central problem in many application areas: from satellite navigation to network management, from logistics to video games, up to the online maps that we usually consult. At the basis of these applications lie mathematical modelscalled graphsAnd algorithms capable of identifying the optimal route. Among these, one of the most important is ...
San Andreas Fault. Credit: USGS Along the systems of San Andreas and San Jacinto faults in the Southern California the rocks are currently subjected to a level of stress, due to the movements of the tectonic plates, which has reached i maximum values of the last 1000 years. This was demonstrated by a new study, led by the University of ...
It is mid-June and on some of the warmest beaches of the Mediterranean, the Gulf of Mexico and the tropical coasts of the whole world the same ritual is repeated every year: the adult female sea turtles they emerge from the ocean at night, drag themselves across the sand with their front flippers until they find the right spot and ...
Three days is the time Claude Fable 5 had to enjoy the title of the world’s highest performing artificial intelligence model among those available to the public, before the US government ordered its immediate shutdown for all non-US users, across the planet, including within the US, and even for non-US Anthropic employees. In the press release released by the company ...
Image created with AI for illustrative purposes only They are expected new rights for passengers of aircraft in the European Union, with the aim of updating the rules created with EU Regulation 261/2004 relating to delays, baggage, refunds, cancellations and practices considered penalizing for travellers. The common text relating to the regulation on the rights of air passengers has received ...