Ecology

El Niño in the Pacific is more variable over the last 40 years (+36.5%): evidence in Galápagos corals

El Niño in the Pacific is more variable over the last 40 years (+36.5%): evidence in Galápagos corals

Credit: Courtesy photo, Greg Asner / University of Michigan / via ErurekAlert Over the last 40 years, El Niñothe well-known climatic phenomenon linked to the anomalous warming of surface waters in the tropical Pacific, has become significantly more variable and intense, recording greater oscillations than 36.5% compared to past centuries. A new study published in the journal demonstrates this, and ...

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The Stranger will represent Italy at the Oscars: how the race for best international film works

“The Stranger”, Paolo Strippoli’s film presented during the 83rd Venice Film Festival, will bring the colors of Italy to the Academy Awards. On 23 September the Selection Committee for the Italian film to be nominated for the Oscars, established by ANICA on behalf of the Academy, composed of Giorgio Carlo Brugnoni, Cristina Comencini, Federica Lucisano, Francesco Melzi D’Eril, Niccolò Vivarelli, ...

Why do bedbugs stink when crushed? The smell can attract other bedbugs

Why do bedbugs stink when crushed? The smell can attract other bedbugs

We see a bug on a wall of the house and instinctively try to crush it, but the action stops when, just a moment before the fatal impact, we remember that the insect will fill the room with a I smell nauseating. Why is this mechanism activated? The odorous secretions emitted by bedbugs are an effective defense system against predators, ...

Digital voter card for the next elections: all you need is your smartphone to register at the polling station

Digital voter card for the next elections: all you need is your smartphone to register at the polling station

The digital voter card should arrive in the 2027 elections. At next political electionswhich will be held in 2027, could arrive there digital voter card to register at the polling station and vote: this was confirmed by the Minister for Public Administration, Paolo Zangrilloduring an event today, September 25, in Genoa. From the next electoral round, therefore, it should be ...

Donate bone marrow: who can do it, how to register and how the donation takes place

Donate bone marrow: who can do it, how to register and how the donation takes place

There bone marrow donation (or hematopoietic stem cells) is a voluntary, free and anonymous act that can save the lives of patients suffering from leukemia and other blood diseases. To become a bone marrow donor in Italy you must be between 18 and 35 years old, weigh at least 50 kg and be in good health. Enrollment in the IBMDR ...

Rock-cut tombs discovered at Tel al-Yehuda beneath a Roman military camp in Egypt

Rock-cut tombs discovered at Tel al-Yehuda beneath a Roman military camp in Egypt

The interior of one of the underground tombs found in Tell al Yehuda. Credit: Ministry of Antiquities and Tourism. An Egyptian archaeological mission, under the direction of Anwar Abdel Samadhe discovered several tombs carved into the rock at the ancient site of Tel al-Yehudain the province of QalyubiaIn the Eastern Nile Deltain Egypt. The excavations also brought to light further ...

Greenland and Antarctica have lost 11,309 billion tons of ice in less than 50 years

Greenland and Antarctica have lost 11,309 billion tons of ice in less than 50 years

Greenland and Antarctica lost 11,309 billion tons of ice between 1979 and 2023. Between 1979 and 2023 the ice caps of Greenland and Antarctica they lost overall 11,309 billion tons of icecausing global sea levels to rise by 31.4 mm. Contributing to most of the rise was the Greenland Ice Sheet. A particularly interesting fact is that the loss of ...

Why Italy can return to nuclear power after two referendums against it: will it be possible to vote again?

Why Italy can return to nuclear power after two referendums against it: will it be possible to vote again?

The Italian people in two referendums have expressed themselves against the production of nuclear energy, once in 1987 and once in the 2011. In both cases, the vote was influenced by serious nuclear accidents that occurred in the previous months: those of Chernobyl and Fukushima. More specifically, the 2011 referendum was called because the Berlusconi government had enacted some laws ...

Russian drone attacks from the sea: how concrete the threat is for Italy, France and Spain

Russian drone attacks from the sea: how concrete the threat is for Italy, France and Spain

According to what was stated by sources belonging to the CIAthe main intelligence agency of the United States of Americathe Russia would be preparing attacks by means of drones, released by container shipsagainst targets located in the territories of some European countries, among which they are explicitly mentioned France, Spain and Italy. There media bomb he blew it up Spanish ...

The most performed surgery in the world: we show you the cataract in a 3D video

The most performed surgery in the world: we show you the cataract in a 3D video

How many times have we heard about the intervention of cataract without really knowing what it is? Yet it is the most performed surgical operation in the world. In our latest video, thanks to 3D animations unpublished, we enter the operating room and we show you step by step everything that happens. Let’s start from the basics: cataracts are the ...