Beauty of the Night, Queen of the Night, Moonflower are not the names of fairies from a fantasy book, but rather common names of plants with a particular evolutionary adaptation: their flowers remain closed during the day and they open at night. Once again the evolution has gone towards solutions that are unusual for us, but extremely effective to allow, ...
Observe even just in 3D what’s under the hood of a carhybrid car can be truly surprising: between battery pack, combustion engine and electric motor, there are more components than you might imagine. And not everything is as it seems: in fact, you just need to get close to the electric motor to discover that, in reality, there is not ...
Road barriers, such as guardrails or barriers New Jerseyare not simply objects that delimit the roadway, but rather represent a engineering system passive and sophisticated, designed to absorb kinetic energy of out-of-control vehicles, suitable for contain any straying vehicles and at the same time limit the impact effects on passengers. Their effectiveness is conditioned by a delicate balance between the ...
Image generated with AI for illustrative purposes only. What path did he follow? Hannibal to cross the Alps in 218 BC? The question has accompanied historians for millennia, and continues to spark debate. A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Scienceshosted by Emilio Berti from the University of Jena, Germany and from Fritz Vollrath of the ...
In mathematics two plus two – 2 + 2 – does not always equal 4it can also be 0 or 1 as long as we use the rules ofmodular arithmeticalso known as clock arithmetic. In this type of arithmetic, based on the calculation of the remainders of integer divisions, the numbers are not infinite and when the largest number is ...
The hi-tech bed of the new Ammortal Chamber designed to promote the recovery of tennis players. Credit: Wimbledon Among the many new features of the Wimbledon 2026 tournament there is one in particular that is making waves: it is the new Ammortal Chamber, the “recovery room” for tennis players designed both for match preparation and to encourage physical recovery between ...
Image generated with AI for illustrative purposes only. How was it organised? Alcatraz prison, one of the prisons most famous in the worldlocated approximately 2km away from coast of San Francisco, California? It is one of the questions that still today most intrigues those who are passionate about the history of this island prison. Thanks to map general and to ...
Credit: @Mark Cavendish, via When we see a sprinter winning a stage at the Tour de France, a race now in its 113th edition and which this year takes place in 21 stages from 4 to 26 July starting from Barcelona and arriving in Paris, the impression is that everything is played out in the last seconds. In reality, the ...
You’re watching Toxic Don’t miss out on more content from Geopop Toxic changes perspective. After giving voice, in the first season, to those who have experienced addiction firsthand – including the story of Gianluca and his relationship with the heroine – this time with the second season he leaves the story to who was close to those who abused substances: ...
Credit: Pixabay Some owners of iPhone they are reporting a bugs which can drastically reduce the available storage space on your device. The problem concerns the “System data” section of iOS, which normally occupies only a small part of the internal memory, but which in certain circumstances seems to grow up to even exceed 100 GB. A situation that can ...