Credit: Google Earth You are watching Earth Records Don’t miss out on other content from Geopop In geography, one often comes across seemingly trivial questions, but with complex answers. One of these questions is which is the largest island in the worlda question that is impossible to answer if we do not first define what is meant by “island”. Depending ...
THE’industry textile is looking for alternatives to cotton to reduce the high impact environmental. The English start-up FIBE has developed a solution innovative extracting a fiber come on barrels of the plants of potatoesa toxic by-product that would otherwise be disposed of. Using a process biologicalthe fibers come transformed in soft and similar flakes cotton. Currently the yarn produced is ...
Last August 24thright on the occasion of Ukrainian Independence Day, took part in the conflict Palianitsia, the new weapon system halfway between a missile and a drone. Built entirely in the country, it appears to have been used to conduct a major attack on the city of Toropetsin the district of Tver, about 500 km from Moscow, hitting logistics depots ...
Credit: INGV. The origin of the bradyseism and the seismicity that affected the Phlegraean Fields in the last 16 years old it should be attributed to a possible magma rising from a depth – relatively superficial – between 4 km and 8 km. This is stated in a study published on September 13, 2024 in the magazine Nature – Communications ...
Earth may have had a ring system similar to that of Saturn about 466 million years ago. To propose this hypothesis a recent study published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters from Andrew Tomkins, Erin Martin And Peter Cawood of Monash University in Australia. According to the study, the rings would have been generated by the gravitational capture ...
The idea of the computer “recycle bin”the operating system function intended to temporarily contain deleted files which has recently also been present on smartphone operating systems, It was born with the Apple Lisa operating systemintroduced in the 1983. Lisa’s user interface was largely the work of Bill Atkinsonan engineer who worked at Apple and who already from 1978 he set ...
The largest labyrinth in the world It is located in Italy, in the countryside around Parmain the Fontanellato area, and it is called Masone Labyrinth. It was conceived by the publisher, bibliophile and art collector Franco Maria Ricci (1937-2020), inaugurated in May 2015 and opened to the public in June 2015. Covers 7 hectares of land and was built with ...
With an incredible length of 20.03 metersthe articulated bus Mercedes-Benz Citaro has officially entered the Guinness World Records as longest ambulance in the world. It can carry a lot of things inside 123 people and is currently serving at Dubai, in the UAE – where among other things the fastest ambulance in the world is located, capable of reaching 400 ...
The effects of climate change in the Mediterranean basin are clearly evident in our country, one of the most affected by all the possible consequences due to its central position and relative proximity to the coast of the entire territory: the persistence of dry seasons, Record summer temperatures and the violence of storms even out of season often make the ...
Leninpseudonym of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov what does it mean “Lena man” (a Siberian river), was a political leader and an ideologistPrime Minister of Russia and then of the USSR from 1917 to 1924. He was born in Simbirsk (now Ulyanovsk) in 1870 and died in Moscow in 1924. He joined as a young man to socialismbecoming one of the most ...