Ecology

“Strong” geomagnetic storm G3 could hit the Earth: aurora borealis possible at mid-latitudes

“Strong” geomagnetic storm G3 could hit the Earth: aurora borealis possible at mid-latitudes

Image created with AI for illustrative purposes only. A category G3 geomagnetic stormclassified as “strong” (on a scale ranging from G1 to G5) could affect the Earth between today, June 4, and tomorrow, June 5, 2026. This is confirmed by NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) based on Three coronal mass ejections (CME, Coronal Mass Ejection) ...

What does Ikigai mean and how do you find your "reason for living" according to the Japanese method

What does Ikigai mean and how do you find your “reason for living” according to the Japanese method

There is a question that crosses cultures and centuries without ever losing urgency and without finding a single answer: What makes a life “worth living”? And how do you achieve happiness? In this scenario, some notions coming from other cultural traditions and distant philosophies become new and disruptive points of reference, such as the Japanese method of the ikigai (literally ...

Why more and more users are using DuckDuckGo instead of Google and what the differences are

Why more and more users are using DuckDuckGo instead of Google and what the differences are

The growth of the search engine born in 2008 DuckDuckGo that we have witnessed recently is a symptom of a significant change in the way in which some users perceive the ongoing evolution of search engines. At the center of the debate is not so much the overall quality of the results, but the increasingly invasive role of artificial intelligence ...

Why Google wants to free 64 million mosquitoes: the plan against disease-carrying species

Why Google wants to free 64 million mosquitoes: the plan against disease-carrying species

The Culex quinquefasciatus mosquito. Credit: PICRYL There is no animal in the world more lethal than mosquitoes (the Anopheles more than other species), which secured the Guinness World Record award in 2017 with the words “Deadliest animal”, causing the death of approximately 725,000 to 1 million people each year. The diseases they bring with them (from dengue to yellow fever, ...

How pasta is made: the phases of the industrial process from semolina to packaging

How pasta is made: the phases of the industrial process from semolina to packaging

Water and flour, right? It seems like the simplest thing in the world, yet making pasta is a process in which engineering and biochemistry are intertwined in a surprising way. We stayed in the Garofalo pasta factory of Gragnano to show you every stage of industrial production: from the dough to the packaging. But let’s start from the beginning: the ...

7-Zip needs to be updated: a critical flaw has been discovered that exposes PCs to the execution of malicious code

7-Zip needs to be updated: a critical flaw has been discovered that exposes PCs to the execution of malicious code

The hugely popular open source utility 7-Zip she was hit by one new critical security vulnerabilitycataloged with a threat score of 8.8 out of 10. The flaw – identified as CVE-2026-48095 – potentially affects hundreds of millions of devices worldwide: Windows PCs, Linux servers, cloud systems and industrial automation infrastructures. The real danger is that an attacker could execute malicious ...

Tornado in Rome, damage and uprooted trees in Montesacro: yellow alert in 14 regions

Tornado in Rome, damage and uprooted trees in Montesacro: yellow alert in 14 regions

An image of the damage from the tornado in Rome. A violent storm that hit the city of Rome today morning, Wednesday 3 June 2026: the greatest damage was recorded in the Montesacro area (and, in particular, near the Conca d’Oro Metro B stop), where a whirlwindas visible from the video created by Giancarlo Razzi and published on Meteo Lazio. ...

How to detect Wi-Fi intruders, block them and secure your home network

How to detect Wi-Fi intruders, block them and secure your home network

If Wi-Fi slows down for no apparent reason or unknown devices appear while sharing content, for example on Smart TV, there may be an intruder connected to our Wi-Fi network without authorization. Understanding this is important not only to prevent some neighbor from “stealing” our Internet connection by increasing the bandwidth – i.e. the maximum amount of data that can ...