Would we really be willing to go against our morals if an authority ordered us to do so? That’s what he tried to understand Stanley Milgram through an experiment. His clearly affirmative answer to this question, however, has raised many doubts in other scholars who over time have discovered methodological flaws and publications of partial results. In short, according to ...
Many see lemon juice as a natural super-disinfectantbut is it really like that? Molecules like the limonene or the linalool, are present in large quantities in the juice, which also contains vitamin C, and especially in theessential oil of this citrus fruit and have been shown to damage bacteria and inhibit their growth. But there is an even more relevant ...
To win at Monopoly you have to be the last player in the game after everyone else has gone bankrupt. To achieve this, you must build a real estate empire by purchasing strategic properties, building houses and hotels, and using rents to knock out your opponents. But what are the best properties to buy? You have to try to get ...
The distribution of earthquakes in Santorini shows magmatic intrusion (in orange). Credit: UCL According to a new study i earthquakes that occurred in 2025 in Santoriniin Greece, would not be of tectonic origin, i.e. due to movement along faults associated with the margin between two lithospheric plates, as had been hypothesized. Instead, it would have been the cause of them ...
Dividing by zero is impossible. It is one of the cornerstones of mathematics that has been learned since elementary school. But Why can’t it be done? Who forbids us? And what happens if we do? In reality it is not a ban, but an operation that it doesn’t have a resultand therefore it has no meaningin the arithmetic field, contrary ...
The Yas Marina Formula 1 circuit. Credit: @F1 via “X” The wait is all for 4pm today, Sunday 7 December: a week after the Qatar GP, the spotlight on Yas Marina they will light up for the grand finale of the season. It will be the last act of the 2025 Formula 1 World Championship, the decisive race that will ...
For more than a decade, the research group led by Professor Chad Bouton of the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research studies how to translate brain activity of patients with motor paralysis in muscular commands that allow them to regain control of their body. Until now, they had only been able to work with patients who already had brain implants. Now ...
Many times we find ourselves wondering “But was it that cold last year?” or “But was it this hot in other years?”. These are questions that can be answered by searching through the meteorological archives, and that’s what we did: we bring you the temperatures of December 7 scheduled for Milan, Rome, Naples And Palermocompared with those of the same ...
Image generated with AI. The morning of July 25, 2001 the inhabitants of the region of Kerala, in India, they woke up to an unexpected surprise: the rain – frequent in the area – began to take on a color blood redstaining everything on which it landed and giving rise to conjectures about a hypothetical extraterrestrial origin of the phenomenon. ...
When in Italian we say “cold executioner”we are using a very common expression to indicate a cold very strongwhat we perceive as pungent and annoying. AND an informal way of saying which often appears in speech, on social media and in online content, and is the more colorful alternative to the more neutral “it’s very cold” or “it’s terribly cold”. ...