Ecology

On WhatsApp you can choose who can add you to groups: how to use the privacy function

On WhatsApp you can choose who can add you to groups: how to use the privacy function

If in recent days you have received in the official chat of WhatsApp a video showing the function with which this is possible choose who can add you to groupsyou should know that this possibility has been offered by the messaging platform for some time. This is a very useful WhatsApp feature designed to protect your privacy which, if activated, ...

Yet another eruption of the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii: 120m high lava fountains, orange alert

Yet another eruption of the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii: 120m high lava fountains, orange alert

The eruption of the Kilauea volcano. Credit: USGS The Kilauea volcano in Hawaii he returned to make himself heard with one new eruption from the Halemaʻumaʻu craterjust 3 days after the last episode. As reported by the USGS, eruptive activity began at 2.30pm yesterday November 25th (local time, 01:30 on November 26th in Italy) and produced lava fountains from the ...

Because 10 days are missing from October 1582 in the iPhone calendar

Because 10 days are missing from October 1582 in the iPhone calendar

In the calendar ofiPhone 10 days left in the month of October 1582from October 4th we move directly to October 15th: the days in between seem to have never existed, but why? And no, this is not an error of Apple programmers. What happened is that in that period, in Italy and in a few other countries, the Julian calendar ...

The ancient Egyptians used opium, discovered through chemical analysis of a 2,500-year-old pot

The ancient Egyptians used opium, discovered through chemical analysis of a 2,500-year-old pot

Traces of opiates inside an ancient Egyptian vase dated to 5th century B.C were discovered by a research group from Yale University. This is an exceptional discovery, because despite the use of psychotropic substances in Ancient Egypt has been attested for years (in other containers from the older Egyptian era, found in grave goods from different periods), this is the ...

We tried ZERO G flight in weightlessness: what are ESA parabolic flights for?

We tried ZERO G flight in weightlessness: what are ESA parabolic flights for?

We were invited byEuropean Space Agency to try one of the parabolic flights ZERO G in the basis of Ninespace near Bordeaux, France. The flight takes place with an airplane Airbus A310 governed by three pilots – one for each axis – and consists of 31 parables over the course of approximately three hours in which moments of “normal gravity” ...

Unmasking financial fraud with mathematics: what is Benford's law

Unmasking financial fraud with mathematics: what is Benford’s law

There Benford’s law helps us to easily unmask the financial fraud. To do this, you know, you need to look at the numbers in the financial statements. Nothing new, one might say. What’s surprising is that, to get started, you might not even need to analyze each item in detail: just look at the first digit of each number. In ...

Android introduces Quick Share: now you can exchange files, photos and videos with iPhone as well as with AirDrop

Android introduces Quick Share: now you can exchange files, photos and videos with iPhone as well as with AirDrop

In the end it really happened: it’s possible Transfer files directly between Android and Apple devices. Google recently announced that its Quick Share feature, known as QuickSharehas been extended to work in synergy with AirDropthe similar proprietary wireless file exchange function of the Cupertino giant. This integration finally allows owners of Android devices, specifically starting from the series Pixel 10Of ...

What is the olive fruit fly, how to recognize it and what to do to prevent damage to olive oil

What is the olive fruit fly, how to recognize it and what to do to prevent damage to olive oil

Generated with AI. There olive fly (Bactrocera oleae), or oil fly, is a parasite particularly feared by olive growers because it attacks exclusively olive trees (Olea europaea), causes extensive damage to olives and degrading the chemical and organoleptic properties of the oil. The result is a percentage reduction in yield and a downgrading of the commercial product that no longer ...

Theia, the planet that gave rise to the Moon after the impact with the Earth: confirmation from lunar rocks

Theia, the planet that gave rise to the Moon after the impact with the Earth: confirmation from lunar rocks

Artist’s impression of the titanic collision between two planetoids in the early Solar System. Credits: NASA/JPL–Caltech. Theiathe planetoid about the size of Mars that impacted the Earth about 4.5 billion years ago, giving rise to Moonwould not come from remote areas of the Solar System but from the internal Solar System: in short, it was a “neighbor” of the Earth. ...