Ecology

Gemini Spark arrives, Google's new AI assistant that works in the background and automates daily tasks even offline

Gemini Spark arrives, Google’s new AI assistant that works in the background and automates daily tasks even offline

Spark. Credit: Google. Artificial intelligence has moved beyond the phase of simple text-based chatbots to enter the era of autonomous and proactive systems, the so-called AI agents. At the center of this transformation we find Gemini Sparka technology integrated into the Google landscape that redefines the concept of digital automation, and which was announced by Big G in the last ...

Beyond Hormuz, the 8 maritime bottlenecks that decide almost all global trade

Beyond Hormuz, the 8 maritime bottlenecks that decide almost all global trade

Almost 80% of world trade travel by sea. Not by ideological choice, but purely economy: a ship carries in a single voyage an amount of goods that would require thousands of trucks or planes to transport by land or air. The consequence is that geography still decides the flows, with global trade being forced to pass through a few maritime ...

What happens to the gases we breathe when we go deep: the physics of diving

What happens to the gases we breathe when we go deep: the physics of diving

Purely illustrative image created with AI. Everything is fine immersion underwater it forces our body to operate in physical conditions far from those for which it evolved, and the deeper we go, the more the behavior of the gases distances itself from what we are used to on the surface. The reason is that the more we dive the more ...

The increase in fuel and food prices due to the Hormuz crisis: new ISTAT data

The increase in fuel and food prices due to the Hormuz crisis: new ISTAT data

Image created with AI In April 2026, Istat reported a rise in inflation in Italy, with an increase of 2.7% on an annual basis and an increase in1.1% on a monthly basis, with prices rising not only for energy, but also for basic necessities: such high trend increases have not been recorded since the end of 2023, while the monthly ...

Ebola, what is the Bundibugyo virus: how it is transmitted and why the WHO has declared a global emergency

Ebola, what is the Bundibugyo virus: how it is transmitted and why the WHO has declared a global emergency

An Ebola epidemic is underway in the Democratic Republic of Congo, caused specifically by the species Bundibugyo (BDBV, Orthoebolavirus bundibugyoense), one of the four types of Ebola so far identified as pathogenic for humans. On 16 May 2026, the Director General of the WHO, based on the provisions of the International Health Regulations, declared the situation a public health emergency ...

When the historic passage of Halley's comet in 1910 caused a collective panic

When the historic passage of Halley’s comet in 1910 caused a collective panic

Photo of Halley’s comet obtained by the Yerkes Observatory during the flyby in the spring of 1910. Credits: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The passage of Halley’s comet of 1910 it was one of the most astronomical events spectacular and discussed of the first part of the twentieth century. The comet in fact passed into the sun 0.15 astronomical units from ...

How Italy became an industrial country: brief history of the economic boom

How Italy became an industrial country: brief history of the economic boom

Jean–Louis Trintignant and Vittorio Gassman in a scene from “Il sorpasso” by Dino Risi, considered a portrait of Italy in the years of the economic boom. With the expression “economic boom”, often combined with post-war economic miraclewe mean a season of unprecedented growth in Italian history, particularly concentrated among 1958 and 1963. Italy changed profoundly in the space of a ...