Contender shark tracker with the latest certain positions. Credit: OCEARCH Is called Contender and is the largest male white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) ever tagged in the Northwest Atlantic by the non-profit organization OCEARCH. With his 4.2 meters long and 750 kg in weightthis imposing predator of more than 30 years old was equipped with a satellite tracker on its dorsal ...
The Gus specimen. Credit: Sotheby’s. At a Sotheby’s auction in New York, an anonymous buyer paid 50.1 million dollars for an example of Tyrannosaurus rex. It is the most expensive dinosaur fossil ever sold at auction, on July 14, 2026, surpassing 44.6 million of 2024 for the Stegosaurus Apex hey 31.8 million of 2020 for the Tyrannosaurus known as Stan. ...
If you usually leave silent on your iPhone, you know perfectly well how complicated it can be to find your phone without using the “Make it ring” available with Apple Watch or by taking advantage of the similar function integrated in “Where is” of iCloud (for example by acting from the computer). Without these, the risk of spending the entire ...
The retreat of the Perito Moreno glacier seen by the Sentinel–2 satellite. Credit: European Union Copernicus Sentinel–2 The glacier Perito Morenolocated in southern Argentina in the Los Glaciare national park, was considered an exception among the large glaciers of Patagonia because for decades it has shown no signs of retreating despite ongoing global warming. Lately, however, the situation has changed: ...
The intense heat wave which is affecting a large part of the European continent, associated with the marked increase in demand for electricity due to the widespread use of air conditioning systemsis subjecting power grids to operating conditions particularly burdensome. In recent weeks, localized blackout events, i.e. temporary interruptions in electricity supply, have occurred in several Italian cities. Even though ...
Pick up packages in the warehouse, answer the phone for a call center, manage a team in the office, select resumes or deliver food to your home. They are very different jobs, with different levels of education and income, however, today they have one element in common: in all these sectors, a part of the decisions that concern workers is ...
On the left, a clip from Christopher Nolan’s film; on the right, the reworking of the Greek marble sculpture preserved in the Archaeological Museum of Sperlonga. Ulyssesin Greek Odysseusis the Greek hero protagonist of the Homeric poem Odyssey: endowed with great cunning and tenacity, the king of Ithaca leaves Troy after winning the war narrated inIliadthanks to the horse stratagem ...
An image of the roll cloud formed in France. Credit: Javier Ceriani, via In Franceon the beach of Hendayein the department of Pyrenees-Atlantiques, a massive one struck roll cloud (or roller cloud), one cloud gray and cylindrical improperly renamed on social media as “tsunami cloud“and fell from the Bay of Biscay towards the coast. In just a few minutes, the ...
Image generated with AI for illustrative purposes only. A old camera rollwhich remained for about forty years among the rocks of the Torre di Jesi, in the Frasassi Gorge, was found by the geologist and climber Lorenzo Rossetti. The find then arrived in the hands of the Fabriano filmmaker Paolo Bacchiwho entrusted it to a specialized laboratory for development. From ...
The ridge in the Indian Ocean (dashed) and the position of the instruments (the stars). Credit: Nature A team of researchers was able to observe for the first timein real time, the training of new earth crust on the ocean floor. The event took place along the oceanic ridge south-eastern which crosses theIndian Ocean and which separates the Antarctic plate ...