Ecology

Science is not neutral: it is influenced by the social context, but remains reliable

Science is not neutral: it is influenced by the social context, but remains reliable

Is science neutral? Often, when we think of someone who works in science, one person comes to mind rational, rigorous, immune to prejudices and external pressures. Someone who manages to rise above personal opinions to observe reality in the most objective way possible and thus make science neutral and impartial. In practice, this is not entirely true: science is done ...

A new species of monkey discovered in the Congo rainforest: the rare mask-faced Likweli

A new species of monkey discovered in the Congo rainforest: the rare mask-faced Likweli

Specimen from Likaweli (C. congoensis) photographed in Lomami National Park. Credit: Daniel Rosengren – Hart JA et al. (2026) Likweli: A remarkable new species of Colobus monkey from the Lomami National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo. PLOS ONE In the dense rainforests of Democratic Republic of the Congobetween the Lomami River and the Lualaba River, the discovery of a new ...

Do you say octopus or octopus? Both are correct, but they are not exactly the same thing

Do you say octopus or octopus? Both are correct, but they are not exactly the same thing

At the restaurant you order the “octopus Luciana style” or the “polyp Luciana style“? At the supermarket, at the fish counter, do you ask for octopus or octopus? And there octopus is it the same thing? If you’ve ever had any doubts about the correct way to say it, you’re definitely not alone: octopus (pronounced with a closed O) and ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS is perhaps older than the Sun: the study on cyanogen in the coma

Comet 3I/ATLAS is perhaps older than the Sun: the study on cyanogen in the coma

Artist’s impression of the body of a comet: the plasma tail, the debris tail and the coma around the nucleus. Credit: NASA/SOFIA/ Lynette Cook According to a study published in Nature Astronomy, the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS it may have formed around one older star and poorer in metals than the Sunperhaps in the early ages of the history of the ...

Because the lane next to us always seems the fastest: the "next row" effect

Because the lane next to us always seems the fastest: the “next row” effect

Because the lane next to ours always seems faster. When we are in traffic, perhaps on the motorway, it always seems to us that the next row is moving faster than ours, but is it really always like this? Obviously our line isn’t always the slowest, but there are three good reasons why it seems right there to us our ...

44% of Italians check work emails even on holiday, why we do it: LinkedIn data

44% of Italians check work emails even on holiday, why we do it: LinkedIn data

44% of Italians check work emails even on holiday. In the common imagination, the holidays they represent a moment of professional disconnection in which to dedicate yourself to physical and mental recovery. Yet, for the 44% of Italians work continues to take up space even during the holidays. The latest to photograph this trend Workforce Confidence Index of LinkedIn, a ...

Why Playstation says stop physical discs from 2028: downloads are 85% of sales

Why Playstation says stop physical discs from 2028: downloads are 85% of sales

For over thirty years the physical disc has been one of the symbols of experience PlayStation. From the January 2028However, this story is destined to change, and this time forever. Sony announced earlier this month that all new video games intended for its consoles will be distributed exclusively in digital format – which currently represents 85% of sales. It will ...