Ecology

How many spam calls does the AGCOM filter block and what to do if you continue to receive them

How many spam calls does the AGCOM filter block and what to do if you continue to receive them

The system implemented byAGCOM (Communications Regulatory Authority) is producing concrete effects: almost 10 million spam and fraudulent calls are intercepted and rejected every day which simulate Italian mobile numbers despite coming from abroad. This result is the result of the technical adaptation of Italian telephone operators to second AGCOM antispoofing filterwhich went into effect on November 19, designed to recognize ...

Dot-com bubble: the story of when it was enough to add “.com” for a company to fly on the stock market

Dot-com bubble: the story of when it was enough to add “.com” for a company to fly on the stock market

There dot-com bubblewhich occurred between 1995 and the 2000represents one of the most emblematic phenomena in the history of modern financial markets and the Internet revolution. Adding “.com” to a company’s name in those days could turn it into a rising stock market star, even if it didn’t have a solid business model or tangible profits. That’s how the Nasdaqtechnologically ...

Why is there an abandoned plane on Solheimasandur beach in Iceland? The story of the C-117 wreck

Why is there an abandoned plane on Solheimasandur beach in Iceland? The story of the C-117 wreck

What remains of the C–117 abandoned on Solheimasandur beach, Iceland. Photo credits: Blair Fraser It was November 24, 1973 when a transport plane Douglas C-117D of the US Navy crashed on the black volcanic beach of Solheimasanduralong the southern coast of Iceland, as it flew over the glacier Vatnajökull to return to the base of Keflavik . Incredibly, all five ...

New eruption of the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii with lava flows: it is the 36th since 2024

New eruption of the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii with lava flows: it is the 36th since 2024

The eruption of the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii. Credit: USGS There was a new eruption of the volcano Kilauea in Hawaiia few days after the last episode. As reported by the USGS (US Geological Survey), the eruptive activity began around 8.33pm (Italian time, 09:33 local time) yesterday Sunday 23 November, and was characterized by overflows lava periodicals – lasting 5/15 ...

The extinction of the Neanderthals could depend on an "exchange of genes" with Homo sapiens

The extinction of the Neanderthals could depend on an “exchange of genes” with Homo sapiens

What did it determine? the extinction of Neanderthal man remains one of the most fascinating enigmas of the history of human evolution. A recent study, published in the form of preprint from the University of Zurich and not yet peer-reviewed, that is, yet under review by the scientific community, has identified the possible culprit in one “gene exchange” not very ...

A new brain implant can read thoughts and transform them into words: how it works

A new brain implant can read thoughts and transform them into words: how it works

Imagine that transform thoughts into audible words: that’s what Stanford researchers did with a new neural implant capable of transforming internal language, that is, the dialogue that happens in our mind without saying it out loud, into words. All this is made possible thanks to a series of microelectrodes implanted in the cerebral cortexwhich are able to interpret the electrical ...

What is the cocktail party effect: why we hear our name even in a noisy crowd

What is the cocktail party effect: why we hear our name even in a noisy crowd

Have you ever been at a party full of people and, despite the noise, been able to perfectly follow the conversation with the person in front of you, or heard your name spoken by someone, even if you were immersed in something else? Here, this is it the cocktail party effect and explains how auditory attention is selective and flexible: ...

Why less for less is more: the explanation

Why less for less is more: the explanation

Why is less for less more? The mathematical answer to this question can be summarized with “because if it weren’t so things wouldn’t add up“. This, in fact, is a typical (for mathematics) example of a rule formulated in such a way as not to clash with other pre-existing rules. It is therefore a rule that cannot be provenhowever there ...

This is how a woman's brain changes during pregnancy according to neuroscience

This is how a woman’s brain changes during pregnancy according to neuroscience

The transition to maternity it is an event that completely redefines a woman’s life, not only on a personal and social level, but also biological. During pregnancy, a wave of physiological and behavioral adaptations are triggered to ensure the care and survival of the offspring. Today we know that one of the organs most profoundly affected by this transformation is ...