Ecology

The "Lucifer" bee with horns discovered in Australia: why the new species is important

The “Lucifer” bee with horns discovered in Australia: why the new species is important

The Megachile bee discovered in Australia. Credit: Prendergast KS, Campbell JW (2025) Megachile (Hackeriapis) lucifer (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae), a new megachilid with demon–like horns that visits the Critically Endangered Marianthus aquilonaris (Pittosporaceae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research. A new species of hymenopteracalled “Lucifer bee” (Megachile Lucifer) for its convex horns on the front of the head (called clypeus), was discovered in Australia ...

Weekend sniping tourists in Sarajevo, investigation into Italians in Milan: what the death safari in Bosnia was

Weekend sniping tourists in Sarajevo, investigation into Italians in Milan: what the death safari in Bosnia was

There Milan Prosecutor’s Office has opened an investigation into a chilling case that brings to mind the infamous “Sniper Avenue” in Sarajevo, the city besieged from 1992 to 1996 by the Bosnian Serb militias after the Bosnia declared independence from Yugoslavia. It was a long avenue that ran through the center of the capital, connecting the airport and the western ...

Everything we know about the crash of the Turkish military plane: why there is talk of sabotage

Everything we know about the crash of the Turkish military plane: why there is talk of sabotage

A Turkish military cargo plane Lockheed C-130 Hercules crashed on the border between Georgia and Azerbaijan while on its way to Turkey with 20 people on board: the dynamics of the accident, which occurred yesterday 11 November, have not yet been clarified by the Turkish authorities, who have started an investigation into the disaster and this morning confirmed the death ...

The "green mummy" of Bologna: the origin of the unusual color discovered after almost 40 years

The “green mummy” of Bologna: the origin of the unusual color discovered after almost 40 years

Generated with AI Forty years ago, in 1987inside the underground of a villa of Bolognaone was discovered copper funerary cistcontaining gods partially mummified human remains, green in color. The particular color of the body is due to the copper that contained it: copper ionsproduced by metal corrosion, they interacted with bones and tissuesand the humid, oxygen-poor environment favored saponification and ...

The Northern Lights return to the skies of Italy due to a "severe" geomagnetic storm G4

The Northern Lights return to the skies of Italy due to a “severe” geomagnetic storm G4

Northern Lights spotted by the webcam of Plan de Corones, in Trentino–Alto Adige, in the early hours of November 12, 2025. The show of Northern Lights it returned to illuminate the Italian skies on the night of November 12, 2025 with numerous sightings between 4 and 5 am especially along the Alpine arcfrom Piedmont to Trentino-Alto Adige. Webcams and enthusiasts ...

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 ...