Science & Tech

What a photo! Here are the shock waves of the boom while breaking the sound barrier

Thanks to a particular photographic technique, NASA immortalized the shock waves of the supersonic Jet XB-1 while breaking the “sound ...

Does diabetes encourage the evolution of superbacteria?

The health of those who take antibiotics counts: diabetes could be a factor still little considered of spreading antibiotic-resistance. In ...

In industrialized societies we sleep longer, but we consider sleep less restful

The populations of hunter-gathers are enough hours of sleep than to us, perhaps because they enjoy greater regularity in the ...

Liquid water on Mars: a rare phenomenon discovered on the red planet

Ingv researchers believe that liquid water would form on the dunes of the craters of Mars: this phenomenon would have ...

World speed record for the autonomous driving car of the Polytechnic of Milan

At the Kennedy Space Center the Polytechnic of Milan establishes a speed record for autonomous driving cars with its Maserati ...

The first metal piece printed in 3D in the space returned to Earth

For the first time a metal component printed in 3D in orbit has returned to earth to be analyzed. Here’s ...

Infusion tea removes heavy metals from water

The tea leaves capture cadmium ions, lead and other toxic substances from the water in which they are immersed. The ...

The flying car is a reality, but the regulation of air traffic in the city is still far away

The flying car, for now a prototype, takes off as a stop, lifts up and flies at low altitude above ...

A human gene makes mice pointed strangely: it may have contributed to the origin of language

An exquisitely human genetic variant and favored by evolution seems to change the way the mice that acquire it produce ...