Ecology

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Box jellyfish, what they are, how dangerous they are and where they are found in Italy and in the world

Credit: Alessandro Sabucci, via Wikimedia Commons The box jellyfishalso known as “box jellyfish“, are highly marine invertebrates poisonous belonging to the Cubozoa class. Characterized by a shape cubic and long tentacles, have balance organs and well-developed eyes. They are excellent swimmers and predators, capable of causing serious burns with their nematocysts. However, there is no need to worry excessively: although ...

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Why Social Discussions Become Aggressive: The Impact of Anonymity on Behavior

THE social media Today they can be a place of great exchange of ideassharing of opinions and expansion of our knowledge network beyond spatial limits. However, more often than not, discussions (often in comments) degenerate into aggressive and violent conversationsranging from attacking to discrediting, from offending to defaming and humiliating. But why does it happen? Theanonymitytogether with psychological phenomena such ...

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Google Reconsiders: Third-Party Cookies Will Remain on Chrome Browser

In the first part of the year, Google had announced a radical change to improve the privacy of Chrome users: the disabling of third-party cookies through the initiative Privacy Sandbox. However, recent developments indicate a significant change of direction by the Mountain View giant which, contrary to what it had stated months ago, will keep third-party cookies on Chromethe web ...

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What does intersex mean and the difference with trans: let’s understand the case of boxer Imane Khelif

The recent one controversy which involved Imane Khelifboxer Algerian at the Olympics in Paris 2024, has sparked a debate on the topic ofinclusion in competitions sports feminine. The controversy emerged after the Italian Angela Carini decided to withdraw from the meeting with Khelif, and this has raised doubts about the legitimacy of his participation. Some have erroneously (let’s repeat, erroneously) ...

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Llama 3.1, what is it and how powerful is Meta’s open source artificial intelligence

Meta Llama 3.1. Credit: Meta. Llama 3.1 of Meta represents a significant leap in the field of open source artificial intelligence. With a capacity of 405 billion parameters (in its largest version, that is Llama 3.1 405B), at the moment It is the most advanced and powerful open source model ever released. This new version supports an extended context length ...

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Rembrandt’s Gold Was Made With Arsenic Sulphide: Discovered How He Made Gold Varnish

The chemists of the Rijksmuseum and of theUniversity of Amsterdam they discovered and disclosed in a study published in July 2024 on Heritage Science how it did Rembrandta great Dutch painter and engraver of the seventeenth century, to create his famous details based on “gold varnish”. Using sophisticated spectroscopic techniques, the doctoral students Fréderique Broers and Nouchka de Keyser were ...

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The place with the most lightning in the world is Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela: up to 297 thunderstorms a year

In the world, many like to boast about local records: from natural spectacles such as the waterfalls highest in the world to less high-sounding records exploited to give fame to events or small towns. There are, however, more “mysterious” records, which throughout history have inspired legends and fascinated travellers. The “Catatumbo’s Relámpago“, a natural phenomenon typical of the Lake Maracaibo ...

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Piombino regasification vessel: we went aboard the Italis LNG to show you how it works

The March 20, 2023 arrives at the port of Lead there regasification vessel. After a year from the inauguration, we have been authorized to board the regasification vessel Italis LNGwhich was previously called Golar Tundra, to understand the situation in concrete terms and take a quick look at the situation. In this video, we show you how the ship works. ...