Effect of phyllody on an Arabidopsis thaliana flower. Credit: Galien et al., 2026, CC BY 4.0 The molecular mechanism by which some bacteria can transform flowers into leaves has been discovered. For a plant, building a flower means executing a program extremely precise. During development, in fact, each organ must appear in the right place and take on the correct ...
Image generated with AI for illustrative purposes only. In Italian, the use of anglicisms is now so widespread as to seem completely natural, but it is enough to move a few hundred kilometers to notice the opposite phenomenon in Spainwhere the computer becomes a organizerthe mouse a ratónthe jeans of vaqueros and even hot-dog is literally translated as hot perrito. ...
A comparison between consumption of electric cars and diesel or petrol Electric cars are conquering one ever greater space on the roads and in public debate, alongside cars powered by traditional petrol and diesel engines. Interest in electric mobility is not only supported by issues related to environmental sustainabilitybut also those of economic nature. But how much does it really ...
We are used to seeing the mussels firmly attached to rocks, docks or other substratesso much so that it may seem that they are already born there, ready and made. In reality, at the beginning of their lives they are very different from how we know them: they are born as tiny larvae that move freely in seawater. The Mediterranean ...
Sinceantiquity human beings have tried to answer some questions as simple as they are elusive: what makes us alive? When a person dies, what disappears really about her? The breath, consciousness, memory, identity do they survive the body? For soul is meant, in the Western philosophical and religious tradition, the vital and immaterial principle associated with the identity of the ...
On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.0-9.1 earthquake caused a tsunami in the Tōhoku region of Japan. Because of this, in the locality of Ōtsuchi, the flooding and subsidence of the land formed new ponds fed by springs. In 2012 researchers found some there hybrid sticklebacks: fish with genetic material of both Gasterosteus aculeatuswhich lives in freshwater in this area, ...
Source: By Stefano Ruzzini – File:Autunno soul Ponte di Ariccia.jpg, CC BY–SA 4.0 The Monumental Bridge of Ariccia it is a road viaduct among the most impressive road engineering works of the nineteenth century in the Papal State. With an overall length of 312 meters and with a height reaching i 59 meters at the bottom of the valley, the ...
White airliner. There is a detail that we see before our eyes every time we go to take a plane but that, perhaps, we have never focused on: almost all commercial aircraft are white. But for what reason? Well, they are different: for example, the white color reflects the sun’s rays, thus protecting the materials, facilitating safety checks and reducing ...
Image generated for illustrative purposes only with AI. What if, instead of opening TikTok and start scrolling videos one after the other, the concepts of a book, a multiple choice question or the explanation of a topic to be studied appear on the screen? It’s the idea behind ScrollEdan app that tries to exploit the vertical scroll on the smartphone, ...
Hoatzin specimen. He has a crest that resembles a punk crown, a blue face and red eyes, thehoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin) looks like a creature catapulted from a bygone geological era. However, it is not his bizarre appearance that makes him famous, but the fact that he is the only bird in the world to digest food like a cattle and, ...