The United States is pressuring Ukraine to accept a 28-point peace plan that includes renunciation of Kiev to large portions of territory (including Crimea and Donbass) today under its control and which it grants large concessions to Russiaincluding a ban on any future expansion of the NATO alliance in Europe. Washington would like the agreement to be concluded quickly: US ...
Second new report World Urbanization Prospects 2025: Summary of Results of the United Nations, published November 2025, Jakarta currently leads the 2025 ranking of most populous cities in the world with 42 millions of inhabitants, followed by Dhaka (40 million) e Tokyo (33 million). The report shows the latest data on the urban population in the world, which amounts to ...
The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS observed by the Gemini observatory. Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Shadow the Scientist/ J. Miller & M. Rodriguez/TA Rector/ M. Zamani The tone of the debate around the comet 3I/ATLASthe third interstellar object discovered transiting the Solar System. NASA’s November 19 release of images of the comet at a press conference was highly anticipated after all the theories ...
It’s a small one gray and brown butterfly no larger than 20 mm, with a dark band on the wings: the flour moth (Plodia interpunctella), also called pasta moth The banded wheat moth is a pest insect of the Lepidoptera order capable of causing serious damage to our pantries. Their larvae are in fact very greedy for flour and other ...
Silica gel is that material in granules that we find, among other things, in the famous “DO NOT EAT” sachets, often stuck in shoe boxes and in packaging in general. Its function is as “simple” as it is important: absorb moisture. Precisely because of this dehydrating capacity it is also used in other areas, where it is necessary to keep ...
Germany has a serious problem with raccoons: today it is estimated there are more than raccoons in the country 2 million. Let’s talk about one invasive species of North American origin which, although it may soften us with its appearance, is causing quite a few headaches: their number has grown at least 60 times in the last 25 years, putting ...
Gemini Agent from Google is official. After announcing the new Gemini 3 model, Google has also materialized its first one AI agentwhich presents itself as aoperational extension of Gemini 3 Procapable not only of analyzing information but also of organizing, searching, compiling and acting on the user’s behalf in concrete contexts. The idea is to offer support that manages complex ...
The Cocos Islands, in the Indian Ocean, the subject of the study. Credit: NASA Many islands located in the middle of the ocean they contain rocky materials that appear to come from the continents from which they are very far away. The reason for this characteristic has long remained a mystery: now a team of researchers from the University of ...
There Daintree Forestin Queensland in north-eastern Australia, is often referred to as the oldest rainforest in the worldwith an estimated age between 130 and 180 million years. Its history is lost in time: some species that inhabit it date back to supercontinent Gondwanaexisted hundreds of millions of years ago. Very rare plants, thousand-year-old ferns and primitive flowers live here, together ...
“123456” continues to reign supreme as the most widespread password in the world. A negative record that it has held for 6 years now, on a ranking that has been drawn up by NordPass for 7 years with the independent consultancy of NordStellar. The sequence of the first 6 digits was also the most used in Italy last year, ousted ...