Ecology

AI enters children's lives, from intelligent stuffed animals to personalized fairy tales: risks and opportunities

AI enters children’s lives, from intelligent stuffed animals to personalized fairy tales: risks and opportunities

Image generated for illustrative purposes only with AI. THE’artificial intelligence It’s making its way into children’s bedrooms, but it doesn’t always look like a computer. It can hide inside an electronic animal, give voice to a small robot, invent a personalized story or transform itself into a digital tutor for studying. His presence in playing, reading and learning for the ...

Octopus eat blue crabs: Italian research focuses on their release into the sea to combat them

Octopus eat blue crabs: Italian research focuses on their release into the sea to combat them

Generated with AI for illustration purposes. There voracity of an octopus (Octopus vulgaris) could represent a possible solution to contribute to the numerical control of blue crab (Callinectes sapidus), invasive alien species in Mediterranean waters. The project demonstrates this “Octo-Blue” implemented by the University Alma Mater Studiorum of Bologna, promoted by the Emilia-Romagna Region and financed by European Funds. Researchers ...

How to build a terrarium in four steps and how to maintain it

How to build a terrarium in four steps and how to maintain it

THE terrarium they are usually closed glass containers (open ones also exist) that house slow-growing plants. Colorful and refined, they are an excellent way to bring a bit of nature into your home, especially if you don’t have a green thumb: these mini greenhouses are, in fact, easy to maintain and very creative to create. We have created a simple ...

Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the minute-by-minute reconstruction of the 1945 nuclear disaster

Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the minute-by-minute reconstruction of the 1945 nuclear disaster

The August 6, 1945 the United States, on Harry Truman’s orders, dropped on Hiroshima there first atomic bomband just three days later they dropped another one on Nagasakicausing overall more than 214 thousand victims. This tragic choice – responsible for over 214 thousand victims – was carried out to force Japan to immediately surrender, avoid a bloody land invasion and ...

Ceuta and the stop to Schengen: why Frontex data reduces the migrant risk for Italy

Ceuta and the stop to Schengen: why Frontex data reduces the migrant risk for Italy

Ceuta, Spanish city in North Africa, seen from Morocco behind a thorny wire fence located on the border with Morocco. In recent days, tens of thousands of people have crossed the border between Morocco and Ceuta, the Spanish exclave on the North African coast, in just a few hours. Twenty-four hours later the Italian government announced the restoration of border ...

A human skull over 200,000 years old found in Spain: reopens the debate on evolution in Europe

A human skull over 200,000 years old found in Spain: reopens the debate on evolution in Europe

CT scan of the RVH–1 fragment, performed at 90 micron resolution. The scan reveals the endocranial surface, diploe, and ectocranial area. The left side of the figure shows the 3D model and the specific region where the CT scan section was analyzed, while the right side presents the corresponding section with the reference scale. This section clearly shows the internal ...

“You visited a website you shouldn't have”: this is how a new email phishing scam begins

“You visited a website you shouldn’t have”: this is how a new email phishing scam begins

If you were to find yourself a message on email that orders you to put your position in order within 48 hoursdownloading an attachment and/or paying a certain amount of money in Bitcoin or some other cryptocurrency. All this to hide the visit that, according to the cyber criminals, you would have made to an unspecified «website you shouldn’t have»: ...