Ecology

The remains of a dwarf elephant that lived over 100,000 years ago have been found in Sicily: the discovery in Fontane Bianche

The remains of a dwarf elephant that lived over 100,000 years ago have been found in Sicily: the discovery in Fontane Bianche

Skeleton of Palaeoloxodon mnaidriensis at the Gemellaro Museum in Palermo. Credit: By Kalima – Own work, CC BY–SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons The remains of a prehistoric dwarf elephant of the species Palaeoloxodon mnaidriensis were discovered at White Fountainsin the province of Syracuse. To announce the discovery Fabio Brancageologist at the University of Catania. This is a paleontological discovery of ...

Maria Corina Machado wins the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize: who is Maduro's opponent in Venezuela

Maria Corina Machado wins the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize: who is Maduro’s opponent in Venezuela

Maria Corina Machado. Credit: Carlos Díaz, via Wikimedia Commons The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 goes to Maria Corina MachadoVenezuelan activist and politician, leader of the opposition to the authoritarian government of Nicolás Maduro and member of the national assembly from January 2011 to March 2014. Founder of Twenty Venezuelawas a presidential candidate in 2024 but her candidacy was blocked and ...

There are 21 Italian Nobel Prize winners: the list of all winners from 1906 to today

There are 21 Italian Nobel Prize winners: the list of all winners from 1906 to today

The Nobel Peace Center building in Oslo, Norway. THE Nobel Prizes won by Italian citizens are – so far – 21divided into different categories: literature, medicine, physics, chemistry, economics and peace. The first compatriot to receive the coveted award was Giosuè Carducci in 1906, while the most recent dates back to 2021, with the Nobel Prize for Physics going to ...

Every year Italians travel on average 10,231 km by car

Every year Italians travel on average 10,231 km by car

The car is the preferred means of transport for Italians, used for almost two thirds of our trips (64.7%). According to the latest ISTAT data, in 2021 the 41.9 million vehicles in Italy traveled a total of approximately 420 billion kilometers. The average distance for a private car is around 10,231 km per yearbut this figure varies based on some ...

What is the difference between mind and brain and what is the relationship between the two: scientific theories

What is the difference between mind and brain and what is the relationship between the two: scientific theories

Mind-brain dualism has very ancient and controversial origins: today there is agreement in representing, at least in conceptual terms, the mind as the set of psychic and cognitive functions (such as thinking, remembering, perceiving…) and the brain as the biological organ that makes these processes possible through neuronal activity. Some philosophers of the past thought that the seat of the ...

Israel and Hamas, ceasefire agreement: what the peace plan provides and possible future scenarios

Israel and Hamas, ceasefire agreement: what the peace plan provides and possible future scenarios

Celebrations in Gaza for the peace agreement reached between Israel and Hamas. Two years after the attacks of October 7, 2023in which 1200 Israeli civilians were killed, today 9 October 2025 an agreement was signed ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas and the acceptance of one first phase of the peace agreement. The negotiations took place in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt, ...

Gmail Won't Have AI Automatically Read Emails From October 10th: How to Turn Off Intelligent Features

Gmail Won’t Have AI Automatically Read Emails From October 10th: How to Turn Off Intelligent Features

An alleged piece of news has circulated in recent days regarding the introduction starting from October 10th by Google of a new feature on Gmail, called AI Enhanced Classification and Reviewwhich would have allowed Gemini-based artificial intelligence to automatically analyze the contents of our emails without explicit user permission. Naturally the news has caused some concern regarding the violation of ...