Ecology

Why scorpions have stingers and claws rich in heavy metals (iron, zinc) and how they work

Why scorpions have stingers and claws rich in heavy metals (iron, zinc) and how they work

Generated with AI for illustrative purposes only. A Scorpio has two weapons: the sting on the “tail” (metasome), with which it injects the poison, and the frontal clawswith which it grabs and crushes prey. Both contain heavy metals such as zinc, manganese And iron incorporated directly into the exoskeleton. This is not an environmental contamination but an evolutionary choice refined ...

The history of Caffè Florian in Venice, among the oldest coffee shops in the world, still in business since 1720

The history of Caffè Florian in Venice, among the oldest coffee shops in the world, still in business since 1720

The entrance to Caffè Florian – Credits: Kent Wang from Barcelona, ​​Spain, CC BY–SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons The oldest historic café still active in Italy and among the oldest in the world, was inaugurated on 29 December 1720 in St. Mark’s Square to Venicewith the name of “To Triumphant Venice“, but was immediately called “Florian“, from the name of ...

How seismicity has changed in southern Italy: more medium-low magnitude earthquakes, the INGV study

How seismicity has changed in southern Italy: more medium-low magnitude earthquakes, the INGV study

The distribution of major seismic events between 1999 and 2024 in southern Italy. Credit: INGV A new study by INGV (National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology), published on the “ISI – Italian Seismic Engineering” portal, shows how seismicity has changed over time in southern Italy. Before 1908, the year of the Messina earthquake, they occurred few earthquakes but very strong ...

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Memory arrives on Google Gemini in Italy: what it is and how to import old chats from ChatGPT

Credit: Google. Google decided to bring in Italy some of the most anticipated features of Geminihis AI-based assistant. This is a significant update that points in a very specific direction: making Gemini an increasingly personalized assistant, capable of remembering who we are, what we like and how we communicate, instead of responding the same way to everyone. Among the most ...

One Italian in 4 abandons sport, 15 million young people abandon it in adolescence: ISTAT data

One Italian in 4 abandons sport, 15 million young people abandon it in adolescence: ISTAT data

According to the latest Istat data, approximately 25% of Italians ha abandoned sport over the course of one’s life. And drop-out often occurs already during adolescence: between young people aged 10-24 years, over 18% stop playing sports, with an earlier trend among girls. The main reasons for abandoning sports are not, in fact, linked to advancing age or health problems, ...

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The most futuristic 4 metros in the world: from driverless Doha to the automated lines of Shanghai

Chengdu subway station, China. We can recognize some cities just by observing the characteristics of the subway that passes through them, be it historic, artistic, extravagant or super technological. The first metro lines were born in Europe and the USA in the second half of the nineteenth century and today they are widespread in all continents of the world, characterizing ...

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Yellowstone, new study reveals an underground magmatic system much more complex than we thought

The caldera of the Yellowstone volcano, in the United States A team of Chinese and US researchers has explained it comprehensively for the first time the origin and feeding of the magmatic system under the Yellowstone volcano calderain Wyoming (United States), one of the most dangerous active volcanoes in the world. The study, published in the journal Scienceshows how what ...

What to do with damaged euro banknotes or coins: the Bank of Italy can replace them

What to do with damaged euro banknotes or coins: the Bank of Italy can replace them

Image generated with AI for demonstration purposes only. It has happened to many of us to find ourselves with one ruined banknotemaybe slightly tornaccidentally ended up in the washing machine or faded after having remained in the wallet for too long: at that point, no shop or trader accepts it anymore and, therefore, it is put aside. But what to ...

Monumental Mayan site discovered in Mexico: El Jefeciño had 80 buildings in Quintana Roo

Monumental Mayan site discovered in Mexico: El Jefeciño had 80 buildings in Quintana Roo

The monumental Mayan settlement consists of 80 buildings, spread over 100 hectares. Credit: INAH In the Mexican state of Quintana Rooin the peninsula of Yucatánthe National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) has officially registered a ancient Mayan monumental settlement named El Jefeciño (“the capetto”), with 80 Petén-style buildings distributed over an area of ​​100 hectares. The discovery is the ...