Why power banks on airplanes can catch fire: how the “thermal runaway” phenomenon works
A recent event on board an Air China flight, during which a power bank caught fire, forcing an emergency landing, ...
Putting your smartphone in the freezer to protect it from the heat can damage the battery: what happens?
Image generated with AI for illustrative purposes only. The heat waves that have kept Europe in check could push us ...
How to monitor fires with Google Maps: the guide to avoiding risk areas
Area showing the fires in Peschici and in the Gargano area. Credit: Google Maps We usually open Google Maps to ...
How the Internet travels inside very thin underwater glass threads: the history of optical fiber
Much of the Internet travels inside very thin threads of glass. Every message sent on WhatsApp, every TV series watched ...
Moser broke the hour record with a 9.6 kg bicycle: when technology defied the rules
Miguel Indurain’s Pinarello Espada. Credits: pinarello.com On January 19, 1984, at the velodrome in Mexico City, Francesco Moser set out ...
Why a photo can weigh 300 KB or 30 MB: the differences between JPEG, PNG, WebP, HEIF and RAW
Image generated for illustrative purposes only with AI. A digital photograph can occupy a few hundred KB, while another, apparently ...
The yellow post-it was born from a mistake: how a “wrong” glue revolutionized the world
Image generated with AI. In 1968, chemist Spencer Silver, a researcher at 3M in Saint Paul, Minnesota, was trying to ...
Do video games change the brain? What studies say about attention, memory and reward
“Video games train the brain”, a cliché, but also a question that neuroscientists have been asking for years: can a ...
WhatsApp could replace the PIN with a password: the new 2-step verification system
Image generated for illustrative purposes only with AI The 6-digit two-step verification PIN currently used on WhatsApp may be replaced. ...
Jennifer Lopez and the Jungle Dress: how a 2000s dress contributed to the birth of Google Images
Today, you just need to type a few words into Google Images to immediately find photographs, illustrations and other visual ...
