Ecology

Capuchin monkeys feed on snakes and mammals: what this tells us about the evolution of our diet

Capuchin monkeys feed on snakes and mammals: what this tells us about the evolution of our diet

Adult male feeding on avian prey. Credit: Carvalho S. et al. (2026) Small vertebrate consumption by capuchin monkeys (Sapajus libidinosus): Insights into the human predatory pattern. PLOS One 21(8). Photo by Luciano Candisani In the daily routine of tufted capuchin monkeys (Sapajus libidinosus), observed for almost four years in Brazil by an international team of researchers that includes Cnr-Istc and ...

Why they say they are workaholic: the origin of the term and the story of Stakhanov

Why they say they are workaholic: the origin of the term and the story of Stakhanov

Credits: Eleazar Langman, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. It was August 31, 1935 when the Soviet miner Alexei Grigoriyevich Stakhanov he set the record for the greatest quantity of coal extracted in one working day, lifting 102 tons in 5 hours and 45 minutes and being proclaimed “Hero of Socialist Labor”. From that day his name became a synonym for ...

Earthquake of magnitude 3.3 in the province of Palermo: epicenter in Petralia Sottana

Earthquake of magnitude 3.3 in the province of Palermo: epicenter in Petralia Sottana

Earthquake in the province of Palermo of magnitude 3.3. A shock of earthquake Of magnitude 3. hit the province of Palermoin Sicilytoday 31 August, at 2.57pm. According to what was recorded by INGV, the epicenter was located 2 km from Petralia Sottanaabout 71 km from the Sicilian capital. The hypocenter, however, was detected at 9.2 km deep. The shock would ...

A fire risk atlas has been created for 6 national parks: it predicts where the flames will go

A fire risk atlas has been created for 6 national parks: it predicts where the flames will go

Six Italian national parks they have now an atlas of fire riska project coordinated by the State University of Milan, in collaboration with the University of Turin, the University of Bari Aldo Moro and the Institute for Bioeconomics of the National Research Council, and which concerns Val Grande, Stelvio, Tuscan-Emilian Apennines, Gargano, Pollino and Maddalena. The Fire-Box project was introduced ...

WhatsApp, the Police warns against zero-click scams: they strike without having done anything

WhatsApp, the Police warns against zero-click scams: they strike without having done anything

The zero-click attacks they are among the most dangerous and insidious. This is because thanks to these you can be attacked without taking any action (this is why they are called “zero-click”). It is precisely the absence of interaction on the victim’s part that makes zero-click attacks particularly difficult to recognise: in fact, there is not always a suspicious message ...

Meta changes Instagram and Facebook for teenagers: 2 hour limit on social media and stop at night

Meta changes Instagram and Facebook for teenagers: 2 hour limit on social media and stop at night

Image generated for illustrative purposes only with AI. Instagram And Facebook they will change for the minor users in the United States. Following an agreement reached by Half with a bipartisan coalition of attorneys general, precise information will arrive for those under 18 limitations: 2 total hours of use per day, a block during the night, silenced notifications during school ...

Why the Earth didn't freeze billions of years ago: the "young" Sun shaped our climate

The record-breaking Northern Lights that no one expected in May 2024: how it reached Italy

NASA artist’s impression showing the emission of energetic particles from the Sun responsible for the formation of the heliosphere and their interaction with the Earth’s magnetic field (in blue). Credits: NASA/GSFC/SOHO/ESA. There extraordinary visibility of the auroral emissions in Italy during the night of 10 and 11 May 2024 was the result of a exceptional solar activity. Pink and red ...