Ecology

How to know how much sea level will rise in 2150 with the NASA Sea Level Projection Tool

How to know how much sea level will rise in 2150 with the NASA Sea Level Projection Tool

AI-generated image for illustrative purposes. THE’sea ​​level rise it is one of the most worrying signs of global warming, and the real challenge is to understand how much it will increase in the coming decades. To try to answer this question, NASA developed the Sea Level Projection Toolan open-access interactive application that allows anyone to explore sea level rise projections ...

Transforming the M13 virus into a molecular "postman" of drugs for the brain: the Italian study

Transforming the M13 virus into a molecular “postman” of drugs for the brain: the Italian study

Schematic of the model used to evaluate the efficiency of neuronal targeting with the M13 bacteriophage. Credit: S. Vercellino, L. Pappagallo, F. De Chirico, et al. “ Functional Blood–Brain Barrier Crossing by Biomimetic M13 Phage Vectors for Targeted Neuronal Delivery.” Advanced Healthcare Materials 15, no. 28 (2026) An M13 virus has been transformed into a drug “postman” capable of crossing ...

Revolut, customer data sent to hackers via certified email: how the scam occurred and how to defend yourself

Revolut, customer data sent to hackers via certified email: how the scam occurred and how to defend yourself

Almost seven hundred account holders exposed without anyone having forced a lock. This is what happened to the British giant Revolutwhich started as a young digital payments company and grew to undermine the continent’s large credit institutions. Passports, home addresses, account details and transaction history have ended up in the hands of a group of cyber criminals. The bottom line ...

Why El Niño forecasts over Europe are so different: regional factors and probabilistic models

Why El Niño forecasts over Europe are so different: regional factors and probabilistic models

El Niño is the warm phase of the cyclical climate oscillation known as ENSO. Credit: UFMS In recent months we have been talking insistently about El Niñodriven by official confirmations from the main international monitoring centers such as the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and the European service Copernicus. Many headlines and articles appearing on the web paint scenarios ...

Why Local Police cars are not the same throughout Italy: it depends on regional laws

Why Local Police cars are not the same throughout Italy: it depends on regional laws

A local police car in Lombardy. Traveling through the different Italian regions, someone will have noticed that the Local police cars are not all the same: the colors of the stripes change, the symbols on the doors change, even the type of writing changes. While the livery of the Policeof the Carabinieri and gods Fire Brigade is always the same ...

Producing renewable energy without panels at home: is it possible?

Producing renewable energy without panels at home: is it possible?

What if we told you that it is possible to self-produce solar energy — and even wind power — without installing a photovoltaic panel on the roof or planting a shovel in the garden? It seems like a paradox, especially for those who live in condominiums or rented apartments and simply don’t have the space. Yet in Italy there is ...

Earthquakes in Europe: we know the seismic risk, but the vulnerability is the building stock

Earthquakes in Europe: we know the seismic risk, but the vulnerability is the building stock

Every time the earth shakes violently, we are suddenly reminded of how alive, dynamic and unpredictable our planet is. In the collective imagination, the risk of a devastating earthquake is often associated with distant places: the mega-earthquakes along the Pacific Ring of Fire in Japan or the spectacular rifts of the San Andreas Fault in California. Yet, the geographical reality ...

What are the real concerns regarding AI: interview with Corrado Giustozzi

What are the real concerns regarding AI: interview with Corrado Giustozzi

In recent days it has reignited internationally the alarm about the potential dangers of artificial intelligence for humanity. What fueled it first was his resignation from Anthropic on September 9th Jacob Coxona researcher who also previously worked at OpenAI, was publicly concerned about the uncontrolled development of these technologies, and even before that, the warning from Volker Türk, the United ...