Zombie bacteria. Credit: Thomas Deerinck, NCMIR/SPL Now dead bacteria cells, with the Inactivated DNAwhich come back to life after receiving the genome of another species. This is what was done by a group of researchers from J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) of La Jolla, California, reported in a preprint (scientific article not yet peer-reviewed) published on bioRxiv in March 2026 ...
Image generated with AI for illustrative purposes only. From April 2nd the prices of PlayStation 5 will increase compared to launch, going from the current €549.99 in Europe to €649.99, with similar increases also in the rest of the world. To understand why this is happening, we must consider a combination of economic, industrial and geopolitical factors that are redefining ...
We entered the behind the scenes of OVO, the show of Cirque du Soleil which brings the life of insects to the stage. Contortionists, tightrope walkers, trapeze artists frantically follow one another on stage dressed as crickets, cockroaches, spiders and a thousand other insects. And we asked ourselves: how it is built the most famous acrobatic and circus show in ...
Bulletin of the Campi Flegrei from 23 to 29 March. In the area of Phlegraean Fields seismicity remains low, as also confirmed by the latest weekly bulletin of the INGV Vesuvian Observatory. The tremors recorded between March 23 and 29 amounted to 13just under 18 the previous week, again with a modest maximum magnitude of 1.0 (compared to the magnitude ...
Image generated with AI for illustrative purposes only. A fake $51 check who arrives home, accompanied by a formal letter and references to US institutions: this is how a new attempt begins overpayment scamalready renamed as the Amazon fake refund scam. By analyzing the phenomenon, we see how scammers combine authentic information – such as a real-life lawsuit against Amazon ...
Hygiene freaks, but still smell that strange fishy smell? It might not be your fault. There is in fact a rare disease called trimethylaminuria (TMAU), and also known as “fish odor syndromeAccording to some findings, it affects from 1 person in 200,000 to 1 in a million, although it is believed that the real figure is higherdue to lack of ...
The Stradivari violin preserved at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Public Domain). Stradivari are the most famous violins in the world and among the most valuable of all: they can be worth millions of euros due to their extraordinary quality and their rarity (to date there are around 650 examples, of which around fifty are intact). The creations of the ...
Loaves dating back to the 14th century. to. C., kept in the Egyptian Museum of Turin and coming from the tomb of Kha and Merit. Credit: By Museo Egizio In Turin (IT), CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=131692220 Egyptian society was founded on precise agricultural rhythms and a simple diet. Even if the Egyptians they didn’t know the modern concept of “breakfast”, intended as ...
From a chemical point of view, the cooking salt (sodium chloride – NaCl) is nothing more than the neutralization product of a strong acid (hydrochloric acid – HCl) and one strong base (sodium hydroxide, commonly called caustic soda – NaOH). So the question came to me spontaneously: is it possible to boil pasta in a pan full of water where ...
The origin of the has been discovered loud “boom” registered in National Laboratories of Gran Sasso (LNGS) of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN): its causes of the event, which occurred during the night between 14 and 15 August 2023, remained unknown for a long time, but now researchers from INFN, INGV (National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology) and ...