Researchers at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University produced the first thirty-year analysis (1993-2022) of change in mass of the oceansobtained through high-precision satellite data: the study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciencesmeasured a sea level rise of approx 90 millimeters over the last 30 years, but above all he discovered that the rate of sea rise is ...
An image of the little macaque Punch and his stuffed monkey at the Ichikawa Zoo in Japan. The story of the. has been making the rounds on the web for days Punch macaque babyrejected by his mother in the Ichikawa Zoo in Japan, who developed a deep and – for us – very tender attachment to a monkey plush provided ...
Privacy maniacs will know this well: on the iPhone there is a function that allows you to hide downloaded apps to prevent them from being accessible to third parties, which can be useful in reducing the risk that a curious on duty can easily access their sensitive data. Just think of all that information we keep in health monitoring apps, ...
Raise your hand if you don’t find the noise slightly annoying adhesive tape for parcels when we detach it – precisely – from a package, or from its own roll. It is a familiar noise that, however, for many years, physicists have not been able to explain. Well, a new study just published in the journal Physical Review E seems ...
THE’Iceland will organize a referendum to decide whether apply for membership of the European Union: The decision was confirmed by the Icelandic Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttirwhich had included it in its political program for the 2024 elections. The government of the volcanic island, in reality, had already submitted an application for EU membership in 2009after the effects of the financial ...
Not all smokers consume the same amount of cigarettes. Some stop at a few a day, others smoke many more. Some of this difference may be written in DNA. In a study published yesterday on Nature CommunicationsDr. Rajagopale and colleagues performed genetic analysis of 37,897 smokers Mexico City Prospective Study and they identified a rare variant of the CHRNB3 gene ...
On the left the Carpathian Basin area, on the right an artistic reconstruction of the Gomolava event. Credit: Fibiger et al. In the heart of the Balkans, in the north of Serbiaan archaeological site is rewriting what we know about violence in the European prehistory. TO Gomolavain the Carpathian Basin, archaeologists have unearthed a large mass grave dating back to ...
In this riddle there are 16 matches willing to form five squaresas in the figure. Our goal is to get it exactly right six squares moving a single match. There are, however, two rules: each match must be part of at least one square. We cannot, therefore, simply eliminate a match or leave it isolated; every match must be entirely ...
THE’Crusca Academy is considered the highest reference body for the Italian language. Its noble intent is to remove all doubts about morphology, syntax, spelling, neologisms, lexicon and many other aspects of our speech. Among the many doubts to be removed from readers there is also the one connected to the origin of its name: why “bran”? It’s one food metaphor ...
The most up-to-date photograph of mobile Internet performance in Italy, taken byAGCOM through some surveys carried out between September and December 2025, it tells us that today we navigate on average at speeds that until a few years ago were the prerogative of the most advanced fixed networks. If we look at the data collected in the main Italian cities, ...