The plant under construction in Laufenburg, Switzerland. In the Swiss canton of Aargau, almost on the border with Germany, a deep trench is being dug 27 meters and almost 200 meters wide. It is there, at the Laufenburg Technology Center, that the most powerful redox flow battery ever built in the worldwith a capacity of 2.1 GWh (the energy demand ...
Some Italian municipalities, such as Asti or Roveretoare reviewing their road maintenance plans due to lack of resources. TO Castelfidardoin the province of Ancona, some roads were closed due to lack of bitumen to carry out regular maintenance. This is a consequence of the Hormuz crisis in the context of the conflict between Iran and the United States, which is ...
Which animals sleep the most? It seems like an easy question to answer – that would be enough measure the number of hours of sleep daily newspapers of each type and draw up a ranking of those that spend the most time sleeping. Instead the question is not that simple at all: Not all animals sleep the same way as ...
We often consider them just an aesthetic nuisance, a thin line to be covered with a little putty and a coat of paint. Yet, one crack in the wall sometimes it can be the signal that the building sends us to tell us that something is moving in the foundations. But how do we understand if we can rest assured ...
The sense of smell has long been considered a “secondary” sense compared to sight and hearing in understanding the human social behaviors. However, contemporary research in cognitive neuroscience, social psychology and evolutionary biology is progressively reevaluating its importance. Smell is not limited to perception of environmental odorsbut actively participates in building interpersonal relationships, as friendly as they are loving, influencing ...
Image generated with AI for illustrative purposes only. In 2026 they will change methods for examining the B driving licence, with them mandatory driving hours which will rise from 6 to 8while the pink sheet it can be used to practice with private guides only after completing all the hours with the driving school instructor. This is what is foreseen ...
Purely illustrative artistic representation created with AI. Currently, the record for the highest probability of impact between an asteroid and the Earth goes to 2010 RF12a small “space rock” near-Earth of the Apollo group already passed 79,000 km from Earth in 2010 and which has 1 in 10 chance to hit the Earth the 5-6 September 2095. Fortunately, even in ...
Image created with AI. THE’IO appthe official platform of the Italian Public Administration, available free of charge for Android and iOS, allows you to receive reminders about the expiration of your car tax and pay it directly from your smartphone. This system exploits PagoPAthe digital payment platform for the PA, to allow quick transactions with card or current account. The ...
In Italy there are more than 10 thousand padel courts and beyond 2 million practitioners: numbers that make our country the second in the world for the diffusion of this sport, immediately after Spain and ahead of Argentina. Rome is the third city in the world in terms of number of courts, after Madrid and Barcelona, while Lombardy is the ...
THE will-o’-the-wispsfeeble blue flames that dance in the dark without burning anything, without making noise, without heat, surrounded by the mists of the swamp or in a gloomy cemetery in the countryside, are no longer a mystery. They are not the souls of the dead rising to the surface, nor bad omens from the afterlife. A study published a few ...