Ecology

The Black Sea turns turquoise due to the blooming of phytoplankton: NASA images of coccolithophores

The Black Sea turns turquoise due to the blooming of phytoplankton: NASA images of coccolithophores

Credit: NASA Earth Observatory by Michala Garrison The satellite PEACE of NASA (acronym for Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) immortalized the waters of the Black Sea in all their splendor… turquoise. Every year, in spring and summer, the Black Sea stops being black: its dark waters transform into an explosion of milky blue thanks to the blooming of phytoplankton, visible ...

Hacker attack on Trenitalia, passengers' personal, travel and email data exposed: what to do

Hacker attack on Trenitalia, passengers’ personal, travel and email data exposed: what to do

Image created with AI for illustrative purposes. Trenitalia informed some customers that they had suffered a cyber attack which allowed unidentified external parties to log in in a way unauthorized to personal data, mainly linked to travel tickets. Those who are potentially involved are personal informationcontact details and details of the trips purchased. However, Trenitalia reassured passengers on a fundamental ...

Fish drink water, but it depends on whether they are sea or fresh water: the principle of osmosis and hydration

Fish drink water, but it depends on whether they are sea or fresh water: the principle of osmosis and hydration

Yes, even fish drinksome more than others. Behind this seemingly banal question there is a physiological mechanism: the ability to maintain constant energy concentration of salts and water inside the body in relation to the external environment (osmoregulation). Understanding how fish manage water means understanding one of the challenges of aquatic life and discovering that a sea fish and a ...

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The end of anonymity, how DNA testing changed gamete donation: the laws and the risks

You’re watching Yellow Mirror Don’t miss out on more content from Geopop Gamete donation is one of the greatest achievements of reproductive medicine, a practice that for decades has allowed thousands of people to build families they otherwise would not have been able to have. Historically, this system has stood on an iron pillar: the absolute anonymity of the donor. ...

5 words borrowed from French that we have “Italianized”

5 words borrowed from French that we have “Italianized”

It often happens to be used borrowings from French in the Italian language without thinking too much. Many of these terms have entered common use, especially in fields such as fashion, gastronomy, the world of work… Precisely for this reason they are so familiar to the Italian speaker that they have acquired a pronunciation in standard Italian different from French, ...

Sea ice retreat in the Arctic and Antarctica has hit historic lows: the effects of the decline

Sea ice retreat in the Arctic and Antarctica has hit historic lows: the effects of the decline

THE satellite data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado Boulder show one of the worrying effects of ongoing climate change: the retreat of Arctic and Antarctic sea icewhich was also significant in 2026. For both polar regions its extension results lower than the average for the period 1981-2010. The most critical situation ...

How to make coffee with the moka perfectly according to chemistry: water, powder and flame

How to make coffee with the moka perfectly according to chemistry: water, powder and flame

Around the mochaover time, different beliefs have arisen: there are those who prepare the classic “mound” of coffee in the filter, those who insist that the powder must be pressed and those who swear that the flame must be very low. But what do the studies say about how to prepare the “perfect” mocha? To obtain correct extraction you need ...

Why the 5 earthquakes in 24 hours between Venezuela and Japan are not connected: the role of the Ring of Fire

Why the 5 earthquakes in 24 hours between Venezuela and Japan are not connected: the role of the Ring of Fire

This morning the news around the world is talking about earthquakes that, in less than 24 hours, have hit four different countries. More specifically, we had a magnitude earthquake 5.4 in Papua New Guineaeast of Kokopo; then a magnitude earthquake 5.6 in Californianorth of Redwood Valley; we then move in Japanwhere a violent earthquake of magnitude 6.9 shook the northeastern ...