Ecology

Fiore cadavere varsavia

What is the “corpse flower”, the plant that stinks and blossoms rarely: because it has a nauseating smell

Amorphophallus Titanum blossomed at the Botanical Garden of Warsaw. Credit: University of Warsaw A rare specimen of “has blossomedFiore corpse” (plant Amorphophallus Titanum) among the greenhouses of the Botanical garden of Warsaw: it is one of the inflorescences more spectacular of the vegetable kingdom which owes its name to the nauseating smell that recalls that of march. This characteristic is ...

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New rules for instant transfers, from 9 October to prevent fraud: how it works

All credit institutions, from 9 October 2025will be obliged to provide their customers with the opportunity to use the instant transfers. To ensure maximum safety in the use of this payment tool, banks will also be obliged to perform one real -time verification procedure on the IBAN and on the beneficiary data. If from this “Double control” Discrepancies will be, ...

com'è meglio viaggiare in italia?

How is it better to travel in Italy? The comparison between the various means of transport

How is it better to travel in Italy? If you travel between large cities in the center-north, the high -speed train. To explore instead remote villages or rural areas, thecar It is (almost) mandatory and it is the most popular means when working or pleasure trips. To reach the islands or cover long distances, theairplane (the safest) competes with i ...

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Because the night of San Lorenzo is not the best day to observe the “falling stars”: here are 5 curiosities

Photo of the characteristics leaving the meteor belonging to the Meteoric Swarm of the Perseids in the sky. Credit: NASA/Preston Dyches. Punctual as every year is the meteoric swarm of the Perseids, the “tears” of the Night of San Lorenzo. Although traditionally the “falling stars” (they are not stars but small meteors) are associated with the night of San Lorenzo ...

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Chatgpt has a new model, Openai presents GPT-5: how it works and who can use it

GPT-5 It is officially available e Already today it is possible to use the new model Based on the artificial intelligence of Openai directly on Chatgpt. Openai defines his model more advanced ever and made it available not only to subscribers, but also to users freeeven with some limitations of use. Compared to previous versions, it offers more precise and ...

sonno memoria e studio

Sleeping after studying helps to remember better? The confirmations come from a new Harvard study

A new study confirms that sleep consolidates the process of learning Because the brain, during non-Rem sleep, “follows” the traces just stored. The study, published on Journal of Neurosciencemakes us discover the role of Sleep spokenrapid brain electric discharges present in light sleep: When we fall asleep after learning something new, as shown in the study, sleep spindles increase precisely ...

Gianni Berengo Gardin nella sua casa-studio a Milano, luglio 2015. Foto di Alessandra Lanza

Gianni Berengo Gardin died, the master who made the history of the reportage in Italy

Gianni Berengo Gardin in his home – Studio in Milan, July 2015. Photography by Alessandra Lanza, reproduction prohibited Who thinks about the images of Gianni Berengo Gardin It almost certainly has a black and white photograph in mind. That it is a perfect game of joints on a vaporetto in Venice, the city of origin of his family and his ...

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BrfxxCCXXMNPCCCCCCCLLMMNPXVCLMNKSSQLBB1116: is it true that they called such a child?

There are many bizarre names, but few can hold the comparison with BrfxxCCXXMNPCCCCCCLLMMNPXVCLMNKSSQLBB1116. As absurd as it may seem, this endless sequence of letters and numbers is the name that a couple of Swedish parents, Elisabeth Hallin And Lasse Didingtried to give her daughter as a sign of protest towards the Government and his Name attribution policy. But let’s go ...

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What were the nuclear power plants active in Italy? Here is the map

The start of the Italian nuclear program It is placed in the post-second world war period, characterized by a marked expansion supported by the aid of the Marshall floor and distinguished by a rapid increase in energy needs. Between the end of the years Sixty and the beginning of the years Seventythe geopolitical tensions deriving from the crisis Arab-Israeli they ...