You’re watching GeopolitiX Don’t miss out on more content from Geopop The protests in Iran have reached a dramatic scale, with thousands of deaths across the country and a very harsh repression by the Iranian security forces, which also includes a total Internet blackout. These protests, which began on December 28, 2025, are the culmination of a crisis that has ...
The functionality WhatsApp chat lock represents an advanced tool for increasing the privacy of some specific conversations on the well-known messaging platform, moving the selected threads from the main list to a separate and protected folder. This ensures that, when we activate this option on a specific conversation, be it single or group, the system immediately hides it from the ...
The Internet blockade in Iran during the latest repression it is not something new, given that it had already happened during the protests of 2009, 2019 (which lasted a week) and 2022: it is only proof that the regime feels threatened by the people who took to the streets against the devaluation of the Rial (Iranian currency) and the worsening ...
Contrary to what you think, bulls are not attracted to the color red. This false belief has spread with the bullfightthe traditional Spanish show in which we witness the bloody fight between the matador and the bull. It’s true: the animal furiously attacks the red cloth – la muleta – which is waved in front of him, but he doesn’t ...
Image generated with AI. Researchers at the Purple Mountain Observatory in China have developed new software, called LTE440which has the task of precisely determining the discrepancy between the lunar coordinated time (lunar coordinates time) and the terrestrial coordinated universal time (universal coordinated time). Synchronizing the lunar clocks with the terrestrial ones is essential to be able to establish some sort ...
Image edited with AI. Credit: INGV. Throughout the 2025 in Italy and in the surrounding areas have been recorded 15,759 earthquakes. Seen like this, it might seem like a worrying value but in reality it is in line with that of previous years: we must in fact keep in mind that of all these earthquakes almost 14 thousand they have ...
2026 opens with a new series of price increases which will weigh significantly on the pockets of Italians: according to the survey by Federconsumatori, the increase in average annual spending will be 672 euros per family. Despite the drop in electricity and gas tariffs (-12.7%), the high prices will hit key sectors: from fuel, with diesel undergoing the realignment of ...
The United States may own one of the largest, if not the largest, lithium deposit to the world: this is the McDermitt caldera, whose estimated quantity of lithium ranges from 10 million tons (comparable to the largest deposit currently known, the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia) up to more speculative estimates that even hypothesize 20-40 million tons. If these estimates ...
Map of international dialing codes. Credit: Credit: Maximilian Dörrbecker, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. The international telephone prefix it is a code that must be added before a national telephone number to be able to make calls abroad: every country has one, for example Italian mobile numbers have the prefix +39 (or 0039), those of the USA (and Canada) ...
What really happens when an organ leaves a donor’s body to save another? It’s a race against time involving surgery, biology and complex logistics. In this in-depth study we take you “behind the scenes” of the operating room to understand how doctors challenge cell death through thermal shock and the perfusionfundamental techniques to keep the heart, liver and kidneys alive ...