Ecology

Kharg Island is Iran's Achilles' heel: why it is essential for the country and why it has not yet been attacked by the USA

Kharg Island is Iran’s Achilles’ heel: why it is essential for the country and why it has not yet been attacked by the USA

Image created with AI While the skies above Tehran and Isfahan have been illuminated by the flashes of anti-aircraft batteries since February 28 and the Iranian military infrastructure has suffered unprecedented blows, on the Pentagon’s satellite maps there is a point, about 25 miles from the Iranian coast and 483 km north-west of the Strait of Hormuz, of great strategic ...

How do swallows always find the same nest after a 10,000 km journey every spring

How do swallows always find the same nest after a 10,000 km journey every spring

It’s the beginning of March and a few days ago the very long journey that will take you there began common swallow (Hirundo rustica) to migrate from Africa to Europe, a journey beyond 10,000km and lasting approximately 2 months. Thanks to their excellent navigation skills and orientation based on the perception of the Earth’s magnetic field, these birds not only ...

How the Paralympic monoski works: the "sled" that allows you to ski without legs

How the Paralympic monoski works: the “sled” that allows you to ski without legs

Generated with AI The alpine skiing it is the main mountain sport. But what happens when an athlete can’t use his legs? This is where the monoskiwhich allows people with amputations or paralysis of the lower limbs to practice alpine skiing and compete in the Paralympics. At first glance it seems like a simple sled mounted on a ski, but ...

Why water and desalination plants have a strategic role for the "third Gulf war"

Why water and desalination plants have a strategic role for the “third Gulf war”

In the context of a possible escalation in Middle Eastparticularly in the Gulf Perchinternational attention is directed towards oil, gas And energy supplies. However, in one of the most regions dry of the planet, another vital resource is l‘drinking water, produced largely thanks to the plants of desalination. THE’Iran accuses the United States of having damaged the desalination plant of ...

What does the new road sign with a white diamond indicate and in which countries it is used

What does the new road sign with a white diamond indicate and in which countries it is used

The new road sign, a white diamond on a blue background, indicates the preferential lanes for “high occupancy” vehicles (HOV). In countries like Spain, France or the United States there is a new road sign, which has not yet arrived in Italy: it is a white rhombus on blue backgroundused to indicate the lanes roads reserved for the so-called HOV ...

The blue walls of Pompeii cost up to 90% of a legionary's salary: the study

The blue walls of Pompeii cost up to 90% of a legionary’s salary: the study

Shrine, Celestial Hall Regio IX. Photo Archaeological Park of Pompeii. That the famous blue Egyptian was a prized pigment in ancient times, it is a long established fact: this vivid color was commonly associated with wealth, high social status, and even divine attributes. However, we are only now discovering how precious it is: painting a room in Egyptian blue it ...

Drone attack on the Italian base in Erbil in Iraq: what happened and why it was hit

Drone attack on the Italian base in Erbil in Iraq: what happened and why it was hit

Tension in the Middle East reached a new critical threshold on the night of March 11-12, 2026 when, shortly after 11pm local time, a drone hit Camp Singarathe Erbil military base which hosts the Italian contingent in Iraqi Kurdistan. According to initial analyses, the drone, (one shahedand not a missile as thought) was probably not directed inside the base, but ...

Why microfiber cloths clean screens so well: what the structure is like

Why microfiber cloths clean screens so well: what the structure is like

THE microfiber cloths they are the right allies if we want to remove dust from screens or any other surface. They are fabrics made with extremely thin synthetic fibresgenerally composed of polymers such as polyesters and polyamides, which are organized and intertwined so as to have air chambers in the fabriccapable of trapping dirt. Furthermore, microfibres can take on electrical ...