How does the dentist to don’t cast a shadow with your hand inside the patient’s mouth? The answer is the special lamp he uses, the surgical lampthe same one that is also used in operating rooms. It is a lamp capable of neutralize the shadow of the obstacle placed between …
Super-deep diamonds are geological time capsules: they contain minerals never found in nature
The structure of super-deep diamonds protects them from the transformations they would normally undergo during their ascent into the Earth’s mantle. The Earth’s mantle It represents more than 80% of the volume of our planet, yet its deepest regions remain completely inaccessible to human technology. The lower mantlewhich extends from …
The volume of the Earth’s glaciers is 150,000 km3: estimates and map of the AI IceBoost v.2.0 model
The distribution of glaciers in the IceBoost 2.0 model. A team of Italian researchers has developed a new Artificial Intelligence model, called IceBoost v.2.0to reconstruct the volume and distribution of glaciers on the planet, excluding the polar ice caps. From the model, trained with over 7 million thickness measurements of …
