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The permafrost, literally permanent ice, is a special condition of the soil in the most extreme areas of the north of the world. A layer of permanent ice that covers around the 20% of the dry lands and that, in the north of Siberia it arrives even to a depth of 1500 meters.While the frozen lands…
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Plastic’s surrogates: ideas to give up with the planet’s killer
It was the 1909, when Leo Baekeland did the patent n. 942.699, for a new synthetic material obtained by the combination of phenol and formaldehyde: the bakelite, ancestor of the plastic. Nowadays, 110 years later, we have to deal with the…
Technological progress and poverty
Is the technological progress improving or decrasing the poverty in the world?Is the gap that divides poor and rich closely linked with the technological progress and did this contributed to enhancing it?The theories are many and…
Cryopreservation: there are more than 300 people hybernated
Many placed and hope to place the hope in the technical of cryoperservation of the body. There is who stipulated a contract to get hybernated after death, or who is still alive and decided to rely on the cold cure with the hope to wake up…
Did you know that the Magnetic North Pole is moving?
Do we know what the North Pole is? The most extreme point of our planet and of every planetary body, which is taken as reference's point. But the word North Pole can assume many meanings according to the field where is been used. The…
The longest experiment in the history started: it will be 500 years long
More than one time have been suggested experimentations that went far beyond the human life time. Generations and generations of scientists that cooperate and that will cooperate in the years for an unique experiment: giving life to…
The best women in the science
If she was the first gratuated woman or the last, the first scientists or chemist, what matters is how they supported to arrive until today and how they are still supporting. In a world that was strictly male for long, long, time, the 11…
Doomsday Clock: what’s the apocalypse clock?
The apocalypse clock (doomsday clock) is an initiative that since the 1947 remembers to humanity how close it is to the self-destruction. It was created by the scientists of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists of the University of…
Why if is there the global warming it’s colder?
The artic winter this year get down on its knee the United States, by touching the -50°C. From the Wisconsin to the Illinois, from the Nord Dakota t0 the Minnesota, hitting cities densely populated like Chicago. This year here is colder…
LSC: the windows that collect energy
When we talk about solar energy's collection we soon think to the classic solar panels for the electricity production or, alternativelly, to the solar thermal for the production of sanitary warm water. By the way, in the future, the solar…
The Denmark: from the petrol to the wind energy
The Denmark has the primacy in the wind energy: it is the global biggest producer of wind energy. The Denmark is the country that produces the most electricity through the renewable wind energy. Within the next 40 years the Country wants to…
Cold atom science, one step from the absolute zero
The absolute zero is around the 0 degrees kelvin, precisely at -273,15 °C. Under this temperature, theoretically, is impossible to go. However the research of the cold, in the science world, get always a little more forward. In the 2013, a…
The COP24 of Katowice
The question about the climate change is mondially important. Infact, this topic is treaty by an apposite conference called COP, which means conference of the parts of the United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The …
Searching Light Pillar: an incredible natural phenomenon
All are exicited for the amazing phenomenon of the Northern Lights, light waves that light up the frozen artic skies. But this isn't the only light natural phenomenon to leave us breathless. The Light Pillar are columns of light that from…
A new break for the CERN
It is predicted a two years break for the CERN particle accelerator of Geneva, the biggest one in the world: the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Like programmed, is been stopped the data collection. The long break takes the name of Long…
