Ecology

Does turning off your home wifi modem during the night make sense?

Does turning off your home wifi modem during the night make sense?

The little green light that flashes in the darkness of the corridor or living room has become a constant presence in our homes, and perhaps you too will have wondered at least once, looking at it, if there are any risks in keeping the Wi-Fi on all night, when we should be sleeping peacefully. To understand if Turning off your ...

When is the next launch window for Artemis II and how is it decided

When is the next launch window for Artemis II and how is it decided

The Artemis II Space Launch System. Credit: NASA NASA released new and more detailed information on the decision to postpone the launch of Artemis IIduring a press conference held at 6:00 pm (Italian time) on February 3. Following the anomalies that occurred during the phase wet dress rehearsalor the simulation of all pre-launch operations – including loading propellant onto the ...

Pancreatic cancer defeated in mice in Spain: progress in research, but a cure is far away

Pancreatic cancer defeated in mice in Spain: progress in research, but a cure is far away

News of a possible “definitive cure” for the disease has been circulating a lot these days pancreatic cancerresulting from research conducted in Spain. As often happens when we talk about medicine and health, it is essential to sort out the newspaper headlines and the real data published by the scientific community. The study in question, published in the journal PNAS ...

In Salento there is a Roman wreck that has been waiting to be studied for forty years

In Salento there is a Roman wreck that has been waiting to be studied for forty years

Image generated with AI. In the depths of Salentooff the coast of Saint Catherine of Nardòhas been lying for over forty years ancient wreck of great importance. It’s one cargo shipthat is, a cargo vessel, shipwrecked between the 4th and 2nd centuries BC (late Republican period), officially registered in General Catalog of Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Culture. The ...

Can I take an expired drug? No, here's why and how to dispose of them correctly

Can I take an expired drug? No, here’s why and how to dispose of them correctly

If you have an expired medicine at home, do not take it. After the expiry date, defined by the manufacturing companies according to stringent international guidelines (ICH)processes may occur degradation of the active ingredient or excipients which may result in a lower effectiveness of the active ingredient, in the formation of toxic compounds dangerous to your health or in a ...

At the Campi Flegrei week of low seismicity and ground lifting at 15 mm/month: the INGV bulletin

At the Campi Flegrei week of low seismicity and ground lifting at 15 mm/month: the INGV bulletin

At the Campi Flegrei 36 earthquakes recorded by the INGV. To the Phlegraean Fields there seismicity stay low for the third consecutive week: the latest weekly bulletin of the INGV Vesuvian Observatory (relating to the period from 26 January to 1 February 2026) recorded 36 earthquake tremors of maximum magnitude 1.4 (a slight increase compared to the 24 earthquakes of ...

How to count to 144 with your hands: the scientific trick

How to count to 144 with your hands: the scientific trick

How to count to 60 with your hands? Just count on phalanges instead of on the fingers with a method that in the simple version allows us to count up to 60, but in the more complicated version up to 144. This counting method consists of counting the units on the phalanges of a hand and the dozens with your ...

A hidden detail in Anne Boleyn's portrait proves that she was not a witch

A hidden detail in Anne Boleyn’s portrait proves that she was not a witch

A detail that remained hidden under a famous painting for almost five hundred years has come to light, revealing a forgotten but precious story. It is the Guardian that reveals that, using infrared technology, a group of scholars has found another drawing under the surface layers of a famous sixteenth-century English painting, a triangular shape, which tells us what some ...

In Kazakhstan there is one of the largest offshore oil deposits in the world: how it is extracted

In Kazakhstan there is one of the largest offshore oil deposits in the world: how it is extracted

The oil field Of Kashagan Fields (Kazakhstan) represents to date one of the most significant discoveries of the last half century in the oil sector. With his 38 billion barrels of crude oil”in place” (present on site) is among the largest offshore fields – on the seabed of territorial or international waters – discovered in recent decades. To extract it, ...