Image of the Pleiades open star cluster obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope. Credits: NASA, ESA, AURA/Caltech, Palomar Observatory The famous Pleiades star cluster in the constellation of Taurus, cited in Greek mythology as the seven sistersit could be what remains of the nucleus of a largest complex of stars known as Major Complex of the Pleiades (Greater Pleiades Complex). ...
On average, in the world, a person spends approx 90 thousand hours of their life working (equivalent to approximately 45 years of full-time work). We can say that work constitutes a very significant part of the lives of billions of people (around 3.5 billion global workers). In recent years the younger generations they have reevaluated their expectations and demands regarding ...
We have an A4 sheet of paper and some scissors available: it is possible cut out the sheet in order to be able to pass through it? We can bend and cut it as much as we want, but we can’t reattach it to form a ring. At first instinct, what you would probably do is fold the sheet in ...
You’re watching Pop Corner Don’t miss out on more content from Geopop In this new episode of PopCorner we had the pleasure of hosting Luisa Ranierione of the most talented and loved actresses of Italian cinema. From icon of elegance to interpreter of visceral roles, Luisa told us behind the scenes of her profession, her relationship with her husband Luca ...
If absurdly you were to decide to build a data center from scratchyou would have the burden of thinking of a structure capable of hosting all the IT infrastructure necessary to run applications, manage data and provide digital services in a continuous, secure and efficient way. This is because a data center is a building where they find space serversystems ...
While the lights go out on yet another edition of the Italian Lottery – a collective, televised, reassuring ritual – gambling in Italy continues to grow away from the spotlight. In 2024 the overall collection, between physical and online channels, reached 157.4 billion eurosan economic volume equal to 7.2% of the national GDPwhich has been systematically increasing since the start ...
The largest meteorite we know of was found in 1920 in South West Africa, now Namibia. It was found, by pure chance, Michael Hanssenowner of a farm called Hoba West near the town of Grootfontein. While working with the plow, it got stuck in the ground and Hanssen heard a metallic noise. Here emerged from the earth the Hoba meteoritewhich ...
Today it seems normal to us: thereferee puts his hand in his breast pocket, raises a tag colorful and the whole stadium instantly understands what is happening. But until fifty years ago, football was a mess of linguistic misunderstandings. The tags yellow and red they were not born from a deliberate decision by FIFA, but from a communication misunderstanding during ...
If I told you to think of the symbolic city of gambling you would probably all think of Las Vegas. As absurd as it may seem, however, in recent years a city on the other side of the Pacific Ocean has been gaining more and more ground: Macau, in China. Located on the Pearl River Delta, which divides it from ...
The Øresund Bridgeinaugurated in 2000, is the longest cable-stayed bridge in Europe and connects the Denmark at the Sweden with one length of 7.8 kmeven if the infrastructure as a whole includes, in addition to the bridge, an artificial island and an underwater tunnel for a total length of 16km across the Øresund Strait. It represents one of the most ...