Ecology

Asteroid 2024 YR4 will not hit the Moon, but will miss it by 21,200 km: NASA confirms

Asteroid 2024 YR4 will not hit the Moon, but will miss it by 21,200 km: NASA confirms

The image shows in yellow the trajectory of asteroid 2024 YR4 updated with data from the James Webb Space Telescope. Credits: NASA/JPL Center for Near–Earth Object Studies. Remember the asteroid 2024 YR4 which, according to astronomers’ calculations, should have hit the Moon on December 22, 2032? According to new observations made with the space telescope James Webb between February 18 ...

What are “Wargames” and what impact is AI having on their development

What are “Wargames” and what impact is AI having on their development

1958 photo depicting a US Navy “wargame” centered around electronic warfare scenarios. Credit: US Naval War College It has always been the main task of armed forces of all countries is to prepare to fight any wars and, to do this, the general states of armies are constantly engaged in the conception, recreation and concrete simulation of operational scenariosalso known ...

How blind athletes manage to hit the target in Paralympic biathlon: aiming with hearing

How blind athletes manage to hit the target in Paralympic biathlon: aiming with hearing

A parabiathlon athlete during a race. Credit: Paralympics New Zealand At Winter Paralympics of Milano Cortina 2026 the biathlon races will be held in Tesero, in Val di Fiemme, and will feature athletes divided into different functional classes. In the Paralympic biathlon, cross-country skiing and shooting sessions alternate: apparently nothing different than the Olympic version. But when athletes compete visual ...

Horse neighing has two different sounds, one is a "whistle": the study that explains biphonation

Horse neighing has two different sounds, one is a “whistle”: the study that explains biphonation

The typical neighing of horses contains two fundamental frequencies emitted simultaneously: one low and one surprisingly high. A new study led by Romain Adrien Lefèvre and published on Current Biology this year, shows that these two components have different origins. The lowest frequency arises from vibration of the vocal cordsas occurs in most mammalian sounds. The highest one, however, is ...

The painting “The Vision of Zechariah” is an authentic Rembrandt: discovery at the Rijksmuseum after 65 years

The painting “The Vision of Zechariah” is an authentic Rembrandt: discovery at the Rijksmuseum after 65 years

A new painting officially enters the production of one of the most important painters in the history of art. We are talking about the great Dutch artist Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, more commonly known as Rembrandt: researchers from the great art museum of Amsterdam, the Rijksmuseum, they discovered after new analyzes that the Vision of Zechariah in the Temple (1633) ...

Why Lake Averno at Campi Flegrei has turned red: bradyseism has nothing to do with it

Why Lake Averno at Campi Flegrei has turned red: bradyseism has nothing to do with it

Credit: Germana Esposito et al., MDPI The Lake Avernuslocated along the western edge of the Caldera of the Campi Flegreiin recent days it has returned to dye yourself a color between pink and red as has already happened other times in the past. The curious phenomenon has nothing to do with bradyseism, but is linked to proliferation and bloom of ...

The precious Golestan Palace in Tehran, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, hit and damaged in raids in Iran

The precious Golestan Palace in Tehran, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, hit and damaged in raids in Iran

The Golestan Palace before and after the bombings. Photo Credits: Moxmarco via Wikimedia The Golestan Palace of Tehran, one of the 29 Iranian sites recognized as a World Heritage Site, was severely damaged following a joint US-Israeli airstrike on the capital. Confirmation of the severity of the damage came directly from UNESCO, the United Nations organization dedicated to the protection ...

Earthquake in Calabria of magnitude 3.9, shock felt as far away as Puglia

Earthquake in Calabria of magnitude 3.9, shock felt as far away as Puglia

Earthquake along the Ionian coast of Cosenza with a magnitude of 3.9. A shock of earthquake Of magnitude 3.9 hit the Ionian coast of the province of Cosenza, in Calabria, Today March 6 at hours 2.21pm. According to what was recorded by INGV, the epicenter was located in Ionian Seaabout 13 km from the coast in the municipality of Calopezzati, ...