Ecology

Venus at its maximum splendor tonight, in the telescope it will look like a sickle: time and how to see it in the sky

Venus at its maximum splendor tonight, in the telescope it will look like a sickle: time and how to see it in the sky

Image of the planet Venus obtained using the Celestia software. Credits: Celestia. Today’s evening, Tuesday 22 September 2026, it will be the right time to observe Venus at the maximum splendor of his evening appearancewhen the second planet of the Solar System will reach an apparent magnitude in the visual V band of approximately -4.80making it by far the brightest ...

Houses on Mars will be 3D printed using yeast and gelatin: the Martian Living Building Material

Houses on Mars will be 3D printed using yeast and gelatin: the Martian Living Building Material

Building on Mars without transporting tons of concrete from Earth or consuming huge amounts of energy is one of the crucial challenges for future human colonies. A team of researchers from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology developed the Martian Living Building Material (MLBM), an advanced bio-building material obtained by mixing inert sand with a gelatin and yeast-based ...

The story of Alexander Zverev, how the tennis player lives with type 1 diabetes

The story of Alexander Zverev, how the tennis player lives with type 1 diabetes

Sascha Zverev. Credit: Keith Allison from Hanover, MD, USA, CC BY–SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Sascha Zverev he is the man of the moment in the world of tennis. The 29-year-old German, whose career was crushed between two generations of phenomena (the Big Three – Federer, Nadal and Djokovic – and Sinner and Alcaraz), has finally managed to establish himself ...

West Nile virus in Italy transmitted by mosquitoes, 657 infections and map of the areas involved: the 2026 bulletin

West Nile virus in Italy transmitted by mosquitoes, 657 infections and map of the areas involved: the 2026 bulletin

Confirmed cases in humans. Credit: ISS – Bulletin 17/09/2026 The Istituto Superiore di Sanità published the Report no. 8 on West Nile virus surveillancewith data updated to September 16, 2026. Since the beginning of the surveillance season they are 657 confirmed cases of infection in humans, compared to 594 in the previous report. The RNA virus of the Flaviviridae family ...

A bullet from the Second World War re-emerges from the sea in England: it is intact and measures 15cm

A bullet from the Second World War re-emerges from the sea in England: it is intact and measures 15cm

The bomb found in Southend–on–Sea. Credit: HM Coastguard Southend On Sea. A normal walk on the coast of Southend-on-Sea, Essexin the’Eastern Englandended with the discovery of a World War II artillery shellbrought to light by the tide. A swimmer on the beach reported a characteristic object to the authorities bullet shapelocated less than half a mile south of The Crowstonea ...

Digital terrestrial "on tilt", some channels are duplicated or have disappeared: how to retune your TV

Digital terrestrial “on tilt”, some channels are duplicated or have disappeared: how to retune your TV

The composition of the offer of digital terrestrial it’s changing in various parts of Italy, with changes to channels, frequencies and numbering involving, among others, Rai, Mediaset, Cairo Communication and Persidera. This means that, if you have noticed some strange “movements” on your television, for example duplicate channels or even channels goneit is likely that the phenomenon you have encountered ...

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Meta One and the subscription for AI functions: what changes with the plans on Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp

Image generated for illustrative purposes only with AI. Half he’s doing somethingTO THE one of the new drivers of its subscription strategy. With Meta Onein fact, the company expands the plans already introduced on Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp and focuses many of the innovations on generative tools. The novelty therefore does not consist in making access to the three platforms ...

A Pacific mastodon molar resurfaced after 10,000 years: it measures 23 centimeters

A Pacific mastodon molar resurfaced after 10,000 years: it measures 23 centimeters

The molar found in the river bed. Credit: Midpeninsula Regional Open Space A molar of Pacific mastodon (Mammoth pacificus), dating back to around 10,000 years agowas discovered within a nature preserve managed by the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District, in San Mateo County, California. The fossil belonged to a adult specimen and was found in preserved conditions exceptional. Mammoth pacificus ...