Ecology

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History of an epic conquest: Caesar and the campaign in Gaulia

There conquest of Gaul It was one of the most famous military enterprises not only in the history of Rome, but of the whole ancient world. Was conducted from 58 to 50 a. C. From the Roman legions to the command of Caio Julius Caesar who, obtained the appointment a proconsul (a sort of governor), of Gallia Cisalpina and Narbonense, ...

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How stars are made and why they should not be touched

The starfishbelonging to the Order of Asteroids and Phylum Echinodermi, They evoke images of the sea and holidays, but beyond the appearance these are organisms with these and many really surprising properties and characteristics and still not entirely known today, to the point that it is difficult to describe them all. Distant relatives of curls and sea cucumbers, they are ...

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No, it is not an image generated with AI: this building really exists and is located in Poland

Every day, on the pedestrian street Bohaterów Monte Cassino at number 53 of Sopotin Poland, tourists and passers -by stop to photograph a building that seems on the point of merged. There Krzywy Domekliterally the “crooked house”, It is a shopping center of the Rezydent group that hosts, in 4000 square meters, restaurants (a real Food Hall), shops, offices and ...

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What does SPQR mean? The acronym symbol of ancient Rome

Credit: Creative Commons Attribion -Share Alike 4.0; Via Wikimedia Commons According to the majority of scholars who dealt with the topic, SPQR is the acronym for “Senatus populusque romanus“, which in Latin means”The Senate and the Roman people“. The abbreviation is attested starting from the period of the late Roman Republic, or at the beginning of the first century AC ...

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Closing some roads could improve traffic: the Braess paradox

How many times blocked in the middle of the traffic We thought that to improve circulation it would be necessary to add new roads? In reality, more roads do not necessarily mean less traffic: sometimes close some It is the choice improve. This counterintuitive phenomenon is called Braess paradoxfrom the name of the German mathematician Dietrich Braess who described it ...

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Whatsapp Testa the Night mode, a new function that will allow us to take better night photos

WhatsApp is testing one new function which could significantly improve the quality of the photos taken from its official app in low light conditions. Some testers that use the beta version 2.25.22.2 of WhatsApp for Android have in fact reported the introduction of a Night mode within the camera interface of the famous messaging app. This is a novelty that, ...