It might sound strange to you, but humans are not the only primates to wage “wars”. It was documented by the primatologist Jane Goodallrecently deceased, a 4-year civil war between chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) In the Gombe National Parkin Tanzania, duration from 1974 to 1978. This conflict, known as Gombe Chimpanzee War or Four Years’ Warhe saw facing each other two ...
Via Modesta Valenti is the address of fictitious residence established by the Municipality of Rome to allow registration at the registry office homeless people or in conditions of serious housing precariousness. It is a way that it does not physically existbut this paradox is only apparent: this address also allows those who do not live in a house to obtain ...
The longest straight in the world is located in Arabia Saudi and measures well 240 km – approximately equivalent to the straight line distance between Milan And Venice. This very long stretch of road, holder of the Guinness World Record since 2020, has no curves either to the right or to the left but not only that: the gradient is ...
The image shows in yellow the trajectory of asteroid 2024 YR4 updated with data from the James Webb Space Telescope. Credits: NASA/JPL Center for Near–Earth Object Studies. Remember the asteroid 2024 YR4 which, according to astronomers’ calculations, should have hit the Moon on December 22, 2032? According to new observations made with the space telescope James Webb between February 18 ...
1958 photo depicting a US Navy “wargame” centered around electronic warfare scenarios. Credit: US Naval War College It has always been the main task of armed forces of all countries is to prepare to fight any wars and, to do this, the general states of armies are constantly engaged in the conception, recreation and concrete simulation of operational scenariosalso known ...
A parabiathlon athlete during a race. Credit: Paralympics New Zealand At Winter Paralympics of Milano Cortina 2026 the biathlon races will be held in Tesero, in Val di Fiemme, and will feature athletes divided into different functional classes. In the Paralympic biathlon, cross-country skiing and shooting sessions alternate: apparently nothing different than the Olympic version. But when athletes compete visual ...
The typical neighing of horses contains two fundamental frequencies emitted simultaneously: one low and one surprisingly high. A new study led by Romain Adrien Lefèvre and published on Current Biology this year, shows that these two components have different origins. The lowest frequency arises from vibration of the vocal cordsas occurs in most mammalian sounds. The highest one, however, is ...
A new painting officially enters the production of one of the most important painters in the history of art. We are talking about the great Dutch artist Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, more commonly known as Rembrandt: researchers from the great art museum of Amsterdam, the Rijksmuseum, they discovered after new analyzes that the Vision of Zechariah in the Temple (1633) ...
The squeaking of shoes basketball on the parquet is the result of a physical mechanism never studied in depth before, which surprisingly has a lot to do with the way in which the seismic waves of an earthquake are formed. This is the discovery of a team of researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied ...
Credit: Germana Esposito et al., MDPI The Lake Avernuslocated along the western edge of the Caldera of the Campi Flegreiin recent days it has returned to dye yourself a color between pink and red as has already happened other times in the past. The curious phenomenon has nothing to do with bradyseism, but is linked to proliferation and bloom of ...