Ecology

What is caviar, how it is produced and why it costs so much

What is caviar, how it is produced and why it costs so much

Generated with AI. Celebrating with “caviar and champagne” is synonymous with a rich, refined and expensive party, but the origin of this product and the reason for such a high cost of the famous black beads in a jar are not always known. These are exactly the eggs of a fish: lo sturgeona fish that reaches 8 meters, 1500 kg ...

Did a YouTuber really convince ChatGPT to shoot him? What is jailbreaking

Did a YouTuber really convince ChatGPT to shoot him? What is jailbreaking

In the last few days a is circulating video which quickly surpassed one million views on YouTube and is also being republished on other platforms. In the video a YouTuber convinces ChatGPT to shoot him via a humanoid robot, thus violating AI ethical rules. To do this, bypass the security barriers using a jailbreaking technique, a procedure to remove ethical ...

The 10 most discussed news on Geopop in 2025

The 10 most discussed news on Geopop in 2025

The 2025 It’s been a year full of changes and of great historical events: since the election of new Pope Leo XIV until the discovery of 3I/ATLAS – the third interstellar object ever observed in history –, from theft to Louvre per mega blackout in Spain. Let’s look back together at the 10 most discussed news stories of these 12 ...

Because the bang of New Year's firecrackers is so powerful even though they are so small

Because the bang of New Year’s firecrackers is so powerful even though they are so small

The classic “bangs” we hear on New Year’s Eve are the result of a reaction of explosion extremely rapid: a real “boom” coming from those candles, whether large or small, called firecrackers. Inside them there is a mixture of chemicals, including gunpowder, which, once ignited, burns quickly and violently producing large quantities of hot gases. Since the gases that evolve ...

How long is the history of the universe compressed into one Earth year? What is the theory of the Cosmic Calendar

How long is the history of the universe compressed into one Earth year? What is the theory of the Cosmic Calendar

The Cosmic Calendar it is one instrument created in the 1970s by the astrophysicist and popularizer Carl Sagan, and revisited by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson in the documentary Cosmos – A spacetime OdysseyFor orient oneself in the vast times of the universe. Without going into complex astronomical calculations and formulas, today we know that from the Big Bang to today ...

The Stranger Things wormhole, what is scientifically true?

The Stranger Things wormhole, what is scientifically true?

In the last season of Stranger Things an interesting thing happens: the series stops, at least in part, to play only with the fantasy and tries to put order in his own mythology. The Upside down it is no longer just a dark parallel dimension as we imagined in the first seasons, but something more precise, more structured. And this ...

Is white chocolate really chocolate? The differences with fondant

Is white chocolate really chocolate? The differences with fondant

There is a debate, especially among enthusiasts, according to which the white chocolate it wouldn’t be “real chocolate”. The reason would lie in its composition, very different from that of dark and milk chocolate. The latter in fact contain the whole cocoa massincluding cocoa solids, which give the product its dark color el’bitter characteristic. These components include polyphenols, alkaloids such ...

Accident at the Macugnaga cable car, 2 injured and 100 people stuck at altitude: the dynamics

Accident at the Macugnaga cable car, 2 injured and 100 people stuck at altitude: the dynamics

The Macugnaga ski lift, in Piedmont. There was a accident to the cable car MacugnanaIn the Verbano-Cusio-Ossolain Piedmont, with 2 people slightly injured and approx 100 skiers stranded upstream: according to initial reconstructions, the accident could be attributed to a maneuvering error, with the north cabin arriving at the arrival station at a speed that was too high to slow ...

Campi Flegrei, seismicity drops with 48 earthquakes, but bradyseism remains at 25 mm/month: the INGV bulletin

Campi Flegrei, seismicity drops with 48 earthquakes, but bradyseism remains at 25 mm/month: the INGV bulletin

At the Campi Flegrei 48 earthquakes in the week between 22nd and 28th December. Seismic activity ai Phlegraean Fields decreasing again: according to the latest weekly bulletin of the INGV Vesuvian Observatory, in the week from 22 to 28 December 2025 they were only recorded 48 earthquakes of maximum magnitude 2.0, a slight decrease compared to the 76 earthquakes last ...