Ecology

Studying the role of the asthenosphere at the origin of earthquakes and magma in volcanoes: INGV SAKURA project

Studying the role of the asthenosphere at the origin of earthquakes and magma in volcanoes: INGV SAKURA project

A new research project, the SAKURA project (Studying the Asthenosphere as a Key to Understand the Dynamics of Plates and the Origin of Magmas), was started to study in more depth the layer of the Earth’s mantle called asthenosphere and located Between about 100 and about 400 km deep. The objective of the project financed byINGV (National Institute of Geophysics ...

The largest and oldest Mayan monument in history perhaps represented a map of the Universe

The largest and oldest Mayan monument in history perhaps represented a map of the Universe

The structure was so large that it looked like part of the natural landscape. Photo Credits: Takeshi Inomata The Mayan monument of Aguada Fénixbuilt about 3 thousand years ago in southeastern Mexico, is at the center of new research from the University of Arizona: it may be the oldest monumental structure known so far of the Mayan civilization (and therefore ...

A new study finds that there is more text created by AI than written by humans on the Internet

A new study finds that there is more text created by AI than written by humans on the Internet

Beyond half of the articles available online would be written by AI. This was revealed by a recent study conducted by the SEO analysis company Graphite who recently published the results of a research during which it emerged that a November 2024 the amount of AI-generated articles published online has surpassed that of texts written by humans. It is the ...

A Turkish military plane crashed between Georgia and Azerbaijan with 20 people on board: what we know

A Turkish military plane crashed between Georgia and Azerbaijan with 20 people on board: what we know

A Turkish C-130 military aircraft crashed today, November 11, on the border between Georgia And Azerbaijan with on board 20 peopleincluding the crew, while en route to Turkey. THE’cargo plane had taken off from Ganja International Airport, Azerbaijan, at 2.19pm local time (11:19 Italian time): as reported by Reutersthe aircraft should have crashed in the Georgian town of Sighnaghiin the ...

US and Syria rapprochement, al-Sharaa visits Trump at the White House: why it is a historic meeting

US and Syria rapprochement, al-Sharaa visits Trump at the White House: why it is a historic meeting

The meeting between Donald Trump and Ahmed al-Sharaa at the White House. Credit: Preston Stewart, via The president of the United States Donald Trump promised to do everything possible to make Syria a successafter a historic meeting at the White House with the Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaaa former al-Qaeda commander who, until recently, was sanctioned by Washington as foreign terrorist ...

Possible "cannibalistic" geomagnetic storm arriving on Earth, the risks and why not to be alarmed: NOAA forecasts

Possible “cannibalistic” geomagnetic storm arriving on Earth, the risks and why not to be alarmed: NOAA forecasts

Artistic illustration. A geomagnetic storm possibly of category G3i.e. “strong” according to the official classification, could affect the Earth between today and tomorrow in the form of a so-called “cannibal storm”. Despite the term “strong”, there are no risks of blackouts or other major inconveniences, while the possibility of sighting remains uncertain Northern Lights from Italy. The forecast comes from ...