Horseshoe snake (Hemorrhois hippocrepis) swim in the waters of Ibiza. Credit: Casbas et al., 2026, “Swimming Snakes Wipe out Endemic Lizards from Mediterranean Islets.” Ecology. On the coasts of IbizaThe horseshoe snake (Hemorrhois hippocrepis) – a land snake accidentally introduced to the island at the beginning of the 2000s – has started swimming in the open sea to colonize the ...
Just open the dishwasher and find a stained knife rust to discover that even thestainless steel It has its weaknesses. Although this material is designed to resist corrosion, high temperatures, alkaline detergents and salt residues favor chemical reactions which, over time, can affect the stainless steel in various points causing the formation of localized corrosion called, as explained by a ...
The sensation of physical resistance, almost visceral, that we feel when we have to get rid of something is not an anomaly. It’s a deeply human dynamic that we share with our ancestors, with children, and even with some primate species. From birth we learn to distinguish what is “ours” from what is not. Research on children shows that at ...
Generated with AI. Born from the intuition of a sports event organizer and an Olympic champion, Hyrox it is the global phenomenon that has given a competitive goal to the millions of enthusiasts who train every day in the gym. The format is as simple as it is brutal and rigorously standardized throughout the world: 8 kilometers of running interspersed ...
Image created with AI for illustrative purposes only. A category G3 geomagnetic stormclassified as “strong” (on a scale ranging from G1 to G5) could affect the Earth between today, June 4, and tomorrow, June 5, 2026. This is confirmed by NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) based on Three coronal mass ejections (CME, Coronal Mass Ejection) ...
There is a question that crosses cultures and centuries without ever losing urgency and without finding a single answer: What makes a life “worth living”? And how do you achieve happiness? In this scenario, some notions coming from other cultural traditions and distant philosophies become new and disruptive points of reference, such as the Japanese method of the ikigai (literally ...
The growth of the search engine born in 2008 DuckDuckGo that we have witnessed recently is a symptom of a significant change in the way in which some users perceive the ongoing evolution of search engines. At the center of the debate is not so much the overall quality of the results, but the increasingly invasive role of artificial intelligence ...
The Culex quinquefasciatus mosquito. Credit: PICRYL There is no animal in the world more lethal than mosquitoes (the Anopheles more than other species), which secured the Guinness World Record award in 2017 with the words “Deadliest animal”, causing the death of approximately 725,000 to 1 million people each year. The diseases they bring with them (from dengue to yellow fever, ...
Water and flour, right? It seems like the simplest thing in the world, yet making pasta is a process in which engineering and biochemistry are intertwined in a surprising way. We stayed in the Garofalo pasta factory of Gragnano to show you every stage of industrial production: from the dough to the packaging. But let’s start from the beginning: the ...
If you have ever crossed paths a pilgrim on his waysaw a picture of the Camino de Santiago, increasingly popular every year, or if you watched Checco Zalone’s latest film, you will have noticed an unmistakable detail: a large shell hanging from the backpack of those who travel it, omnipresent in the route signs, of which it represents the official ...