Ecology

Military drones, how they work and why they are changing war

Military drones, how they work and why they are changing war

How are military drones made? If you think about a war drone as an enhanced version of the ones we have at home, you are very wrong. Military drones, like theMQ-9 Reaper they are gigantic aircraft, controlled remotely by operators who can even be on the other side of the world. These aircraft serve to carry out surveillance, gather intelligence ...

What is the Erasmus+ project created by Sofia Corradi and how it has changed education in the EU

What is the Erasmus+ project created by Sofia Corradi and how it has changed education in the EU

Sofia Corradithe creator of Erasmus programme who enabled millions of young people to study abroad across Europe, recently passed away in Rome at the age of 91. His project started from the United States, where he studied as a young man after graduating from La Sapienza University of Rome, thanks to a Fulbright scholarship from Columbia University in New York, ...

What jewels were stolen from the Louvre and how much they might be worth: the list

What jewels were stolen from the Louvre and how much they might be worth: the list

A masterful theft occurred on the morning of Sunday 19 October 2025 at Louvre Museum of Paris thanks to a common hoist and a simple grinder. The stolen goods? Eight very precious ones Napoleon’s jewels contained in the Gallery of Apollo, the room where the French Crown Jewels are kept. The value of the stolen goods, according to the French ...

How are road signs on the highway designed?

How are road signs on the highway designed?

We are now used to reading little there road signsespecially in motorwaywhere most of the information refers to direction signs or information relating to traffic and to traffic in general. Nowadays, in fact, all this information is managed via our smartphone and the use of dedicated applications for route tracking anywhere in the world. We therefore automatically know which direction ...

WhatsApp wants to introduce an anti-spam filter: how it works and why it is important

WhatsApp wants to introduce an anti-spam filter: how it works and why it is important

WhatsApp is looking for solutions for fight spam by limiting messages that can be sent to unknown contacts who do not respond. In other words, if a user texts someone who hasn’t saved their number and that person doesn’t interact, that message will add to a monthly count. Once you reach a certain limit, you will no longer be able ...

Amazon Web Services is down, global failures from Canva to Perplexity: what's happening

Amazon Web Services is down, global failures from Canva to Perplexity: what’s happening

Credit: Amazon During the morning today, October 20, 2025different platforms such as Canva, Amazon And Perplexity are experiencing malfunctions: as confirmed by the portal Downdetectorthe downside is also affecting the infrastructure of Amazon Web Servicesas well as the virtual assistant Alexasome social networks like Snapchat And Signal and several games like Clash Royale. The apps and platforms down today, October ...

Why Cape Verde is called that and why it is famous: history

Why Cape Verde is called that and why it is famous: history

Cape Verde – which many know for its Afro-Portuguese Creole culture, the morna music made famous by Cesária Évora and the spectacular beaches of Sal and Boa Vista – is a West African island state made up of archipelago of ten volcanic islands which extends into the Atlantic Ocean, about 500 kilometers from the coast of Senegal. Its islands, different ...

Calls or messages with the +40 prefix are a Romanian scam: how to recognize it and defend yourself

Calls or messages with the +40 prefix are a Romanian scam: how to recognize it and defend yourself

Image generated with AI. Calls or messages from numbers with area code +40The international dialing code of Romaniacould arrive on our mobile phone for very different reasons: some totally harmless, others linked to rather sophisticated scams. If you receive a contact from an unknown Romanian number (but it applies to other prefixes, such as the +30 one in Greece which ...

Why you can't leave a person according to psychology

Why you can’t leave a person according to psychology

The sunk cost fallacy, or lost costs fallacy, is a cognitive bias that occurs when people continue to invest time, energy and resources in something that is proving to be a failure, just because they have already invested so much in the past. This mechanism can also manifest itself in relationships, pushing us to maintain dysfunctional bonds in order not ...