Make the spiders of the Fluorescent red silk This is the result obtained by researchers from the University of Bayreuth in a recent study published in the scientific journal Angewandte Chemie. But what was their purpose? The goal was not to produce more beautiful cobwebs or to lay the foundations to create spider-man, rather, research aimed to demonstrate that thegenetic ...
Representation of the “Snake” game present on Nokia phones. Credit: HMD/Nokia. If you were born between the 80s and 90s, who knows how many times you have played a Snake, The famous snake video game. But if you think that this mobile pastime is relatively recent, you are only partially in the right because, in reality, Snake has much older ...
Work by Gordon Frazer – “Cannibal Feast on the Island of Tanna, New Hebrides” The term “cannibal“Today rooted in our vocabulary to describe ruthless or cruel individuals and deeply anchored in our imagination it may seem as ancient as humanity itself. Yet, it has one precise birth date And above all a mysterious story, made of linguistic misunderstandings, ideological manipulations ...
After more than 60 years of research, scientists have finally revealed because some cats have the orange hair. The answer is hidden in their genes, in particular in a small portion of the chromosome x. Two research teams – one from Stanford University in the United States and the other of Kyushu University in Japan – have independently discovered one ...
The 5 oldest cities in the world still inhabited they are located in the famous area of Near East call “Fertile crescent“, where the first were born crops and the first farms. The city born thanks to the Revolution of Neolithic When our ancestors discovered theagriculture and thefarmbegan to produce more food than necessary: this surplus it could be exchanged ...
March 18, 2003 Saddam Hussein He ordered his son Qusay to withdraw from the Iraqi central bank the sum of a billion dollars in cash: Iraq was about to be invaded by the armed forces of United States And the dictator wanted to take the money before the enemies came. Two thirds of the money were found by the Americans ...
Does it make sense to choose a hotel based only on the average of online reviews? Or buy a cosmetic product just because “90% have seen improvements”? Every day we make decisions based on numbers and statistics: but what happens when the data is missing? Whether it is information never collected, neglected or deliberately omitted, Even what we are not ...
The flood of the Natisone river on May 31, 2024. Credits: Fire Brigade A year has passed since the tragedy of Natisone, in which three young boys – Patrizia Cormos, Bianca Doros And Cristian Casian Molnar – they lost their lives overwhelmed by a sudden full full of the river Natisone while they were along the shore in the municipality ...
The situation of fires in the state of the Manitoba, in the center of Canada. Credits: Manitoba Government The season of Fires in Canada It started officially: those of the summer of 2023 were among the most serious in the history of the country and burned an over surface 150,000 square kilometers. Also this year the situation already begins to ...
In the last few days the US government would have sent to Taiwan 500 military councilors in charge of supporting the armed forces of Taipeiforming them to resist an amphibian assault. The increase in the involvement of the USA in the defense of Taiwan It comes right now and not surprisingly, in the perspective that China decides to try an ...