Category: General Interest

Already the children’s toothpaste delivered shocking results. For 17 of the 48 adult products, there was an “unsatisfactory” because of the ingredients. Many manufacturers use the dye titanium dioxide for bright white toothpaste despite this substance being considered potentially carcinogenic. The magazine “Öko-Test” had recently detected the importance of several children’s toothpaste, and now adult toothpaste has been tested. In 21 of 48 kinds of toothpaste, the “whitener” is still part of the formula. Titanium dioxide was also often used as an additive to make food look whiter, shinier or…

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A larger asteroid is expected to come comparatively close to Earth on Saturday evening. The celestial body will be only about 168,000 kilometres from our planet at its nearest point, according to the European Space Agency (ESA). The moon is more than twice that distance from Earth. The flyby can be observed with binoculars or a telescope. While asteroids fly by Earth occasionally, Saturday night’s event is rare. The recently discovered celestial body, 2023 DZ2, is about 40 to 100 meters across. According to the U.S. space agency NASA, it…

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Earth Hour” has become one of the world’s largest climate and environmental protection campaigns in recent years. On Saturday, March 25, the lights will be turned off for one hour for the climate for the 17th time. “Time out for the earth”: when “Earth Hour” will rise in 2023.Setting an example in the face of the climate crisis by turning off the lights in households and public buildings for one hour originated almost 20 years ago at the Australian branch of the environmental protection organization WWF (World Wide Fund for…

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NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) probe has captured a huge plasma tornado on the sun. The phenomenon grew to 120,000 kilometres for three days before it collapsed. To put this in perspective, our Earth is 12,756 kilometres in diameter. The spectacular event was also filmed from Earth. Renowned astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy shared a corresponding video on Twitter. Later, he also posted photos online. During the eruption, charged particles were also ejected into the atmosphere. However, since the tornado formed at the north pole of the sun, in this case, there…

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The situational winter tire obligation is still in place until April 15; those who don’t run into winter driving conditions can change their tires to summer tires anytime. Or change them yourself if the stored tires are still good. Here we explain what you have to bear in mind. It looks so simple, but you can make many mistakes when changing tires, which can lead to problems, warns the expert organization GTÜ. The correct torque and sequence are crucial. And under no circumstances should you spray Caramba, WD40 or something…

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Austria can look forward to temperatures of up to 23 degrees in the coming days – but that will be over by the weekend at the latest. At the front of a powerful low-pressure complex near the British Isles, the flow in the Alpine region turns to the southwest, bringing in very warm air masses of Mediterranean origin. The calm spring weather continues up to and including Thursday; on Friday, a cold front introduces a more unsettled and significantly cooler weather phase. Wednesday will offer a mostly nice mix of…

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On the last Sunday in March – i.e. this weekend – the clock will be turned again. The hands will jump from 2:00 to 3:00 in Europe – although the change between normal and daylight saving time should already have become obsolete. After the topic caused a stir in Europe a little more than four years ago with a proposal from the EU Commission, it has become quiet again: a changeover to only summer or winter is not in sight. Indeed, the ball is still in the court of the…

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Dirty drinking water and a lack of sanitation infrastructure are endangering the lives of many adolescents worldwide, according to the U.N. children’s agency UNICEF. “Every day, over 1,000 children under the age of five die worldwide from diseases caused by dirty water, lack of sanitation and poor hygiene,” UNICEF said Monday in New York. In total, 190 million children are at risk in ten African countries, according to UNHCR.The situation is most difficult in the West and Central African countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Mali,…

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NASA warns of a possible asteroid impact on Earth. Clarity about it could be in a few weeks, according to official data. According to the U.S. National National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), a recently discovered asteroid could hit Earth. But those who now assume the worst can be cautiously given the all-clear. Because the impact would not take place until the year 2046. However, NASA describes the possibility, however his apocalyptic scenario, as “very small.” The asteroid, named “2023 DW,” was discovered in February and has a diameter of…

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