Strange wrinkles, protruding flaps and complex cartilage structures: the Facce of night bats They are at least bizarre and have contributed to the reputation of “monstrosity” they have in the eyes of many people. However, this apparent strangeness, like many in the natural world, would have an evolutionary motivation: several studies have in fact theorized that these complex faces would ...
Get ready to look up to the sky September 7, 2025when – weather permitting – we can admire theTotal lunar eclipse That will dye red Our satellite. Unlike that of last March, this total lunar eclipse will also be clearly visible from Italy, even if not all of Italy will be able to admire the totality throughout its duration. However, ...
Robot that run in the finals of 100 meters. Credit: Lintao Zhang/Getty Images. The spotlight of the National Speed Skating Oval of Beijing, China, have focused on more than 500 humanoid robots. From the 14 to 17 August Last the Arena, built for the 2022 Winter Olympics and capable of hosting up to 12,000 people, turned into the theater of ...
The rainfall arriving on Italy scheduled for today, Thursday 28 August.Credit: ECMWF The bad weather He returns to hit Italy, just three days after the storm that hit Romagna. Particularly impressed so far has been the Alto Piedmont, with a precipitation of 130 millimeters in the province of Verbania. Many titles that are reading in these hours speak of “Hurricane ...
From 21 August the Israeli authorities have started occupy the entire strip of Gaza: But what does occupation mean? In the practical act, employment would mean passing from lighter to direct control of the territory. The purposes declared by Israel refer to the desire to defeat Hamas, but since the Jewish state has never made a secret of wanting to ...
A child was born from a frozen embryo for thirty -one years (from 1994) in liquid nitrogen. The story, reported by Mit Technology Review who told the story at the end of July, he turned on the spotlight on a practice usually confined to assisted fertilization clinics. Scientific research tells us that the Slow freezing of embryos used in the ...
Ayahauasca is one traditional drink widespread among numerous indigenous communities of the Amazon. Prepared with Liana Banisteropsis Caapi and the leaves of Psychotria viridisis known for his psychoactive effects and for the ability to induce states of altered consciousness. In this literally means “liana of the spirits”: in the Amazonian society Its meaning goes beyond the pharmacological dimension: it was ...
In the summer, when we are crossed under the hottest hours, the refreshing feeling to drink a glass of icy water It is priceless: we feel better immediately. On the contrary, a glass of warm water does not produce the same effect; At high temperatures more than water seems like a broth, I almost disturb us. Two different sensations: it ...
Image generated with AI. The market of non -alcoholic beer It is always growing, among people who cannot drink alcohol (like pregnant women), those who do not drink because they have to drive and those who simply prefer not to take alcohol without sacrificing the taste – more or less the same – of beer. In fact, a non -alcoholic ...
The three statues recovered in Abukir’s waters. Credit: Ministry of Tourism and Antiquity of Egypt. On the occasion of an event dedicated to Archaeological heritage submerged in Egypton August 21, the country’s authorities made the recovery of Three large submerged statues in the waters of the Abukir bayclose to Alexandriawhich date back to two millennia ago, when the area had ...