Ecology

The Amazon refund with the $51 check is a scam: why it seems real and how to defend yourself

The Amazon refund with the $51 check is a scam: why it seems real and how to defend yourself

Image generated with AI for illustrative purposes only. A fake $51 check who arrives home, accompanied by a formal letter and references to US institutions: this is how a new attempt begins overpayment scamalready renamed as the Amazon fake refund scam. By analyzing the phenomenon, we see how scammers combine authentic information – such as a real-life lawsuit against Amazon ...

What the ancient Egyptians ate for breakfast: spelled bread, beer, onions and garlic

What the ancient Egyptians ate for breakfast: spelled bread, beer, onions and garlic

Loaves dating back to the 14th century. to. C., kept in the Egyptian Museum of Turin and coming from the tomb of Kha and Merit. Credit: By Museo Egizio In Turin (IT), CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=131692220 Egyptian society was founded on precise agricultural rhythms and a simple diet. Even if the Egyptians they didn’t know the modern concept of “breakfast”, intended as ...

Cooking pasta with hydrochloric acid and caustic soda: the chemical experiment

Cooking pasta with hydrochloric acid and caustic soda: the chemical experiment

From a chemical point of view, the cooking salt (sodium chloride – NaCl) is nothing more than the neutralization product of a strong acid (hydrochloric acid – HCl) and one strong base (sodium hydroxide, commonly called caustic soda – NaOH). So the question came to me spontaneously: is it possible to boil pasta in a pan full of water where ...

The origin of the "roar" recorded in the Gran Sasso in 2023 revealed: it was variations in water pressure

The origin of the “roar” recorded in the Gran Sasso in 2023 revealed: it was variations in water pressure

The origin of the has been discovered loud “boom” registered in National Laboratories of Gran Sasso (LNGS) of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN): its causes of the event, which occurred during the night between 14 and 15 August 2023, remained unknown for a long time, but now researchers from INFN, INGV (National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology) and ...

Why duct tape comes off over time: It's more complicated than it seems

Why duct tape comes off over time: It’s more complicated than it seems

We use them almost every day: posters, stickers, double-sided tapes. When we apply them to a surface, they adhere thanks to the viscoelastic properties of the adhesive material and the quality of contact between adhesive and surface. However, since no real chemical bonds are formed, themembership is not permanent and as time passes it tends to reduce, to the point ...