Ecology

Campi Flegrei

At Campi Flegrei a model was developed to interpret the seismicity of the caldera

Credit: Google Earth The researchers managed to develop a model that reproduces theseismicity trend at the Caldera of the Campi Flegrei in the pastregarding both earthquakes with a magnitude greater than 3 that have occurred from 1960 to today and the weaker ones that have occurred since 2005. The model is also able to provide probabilistic forecasts on the frequency ...

Almost 1 in 10 Italians also work on holiday: the phenomenon of holiday workers

Almost 1 in 10 Italians also work on holiday: the phenomenon of holiday workers

In Italy, almost 1 in 10 workers continued to work even while he was in vacation. This is what emerges from Istat data, which in 2022 for the first time measured the presence of “holiday workers”that is, those who combine work and holidays: especially men, resident in the North-West, with a high level of education, self-employed or managers in the ...

Blue tits use cigarette butts to build nests as repellents and insecticides

Blue tits use cigarette butts to build nests as repellents and insecticides

The blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus), passerine birds belonging to the Paridae family that live in urban environments, have acquired the habit of add cigarette butts to their nest or even to build the nest in public ashtrays, to exploit the repellent effect of nicotine against parasites. Talking about it is a study conducted by a team of zoologists from the ...

The Martingale system is a mathematical illusion: how the doubling method works in roulette

The Martingale system is a mathematical illusion: how the doubling method works in roulette

Among those who play at roulette There is a method circulating that seems to offer a mathematical guarantee for winning: the martingalealso known as “doubling methodThis strategy consists of betting on a color (red or black) and, in case of loss, trying again doubling the bet. In theory, thanks to this strategy you have the mathematical certainty of ending your ...

China: the largest compressed air energy storage plant in the world is operational

China: the largest compressed air energy storage plant in the world is operational

In the Chinese province of Jiangsu the largest energy storage system in the world to compressed air (CAES- Compressed Air Energy Storage), marking a historic milestone in the development of sustainable energy infrastructure. The power plant, with a total cost of approximately 520 million dollarsis sized to guarantee an annual production of approximately 792 GWh of electricity helping to meet ...