A cyborg cockroach wearing a “diving suit”. Credit: Nanyang Technological University A group of researchers carried out a very particular experiment on a cockroach in a study published in Nature Communications. The research team of Fan and Sato, from Nanyang Technological University of Singapore have built and made the cockroach “wear” a small one “mutt” which allows him to breathe ...
If you have a WhatsApp account and you care about your privacy, there are some settings of the famous messaging application that you should change if you want to prevent your contacts, or even unknown users who have come into possession of your number, from using some data visible on your account to “spy” on you in some way. In ...
Artistic rendering showing the possible lights seen from space of real cities on the lunar surface. Credit: NASA International Moon Day (IMD) is the international day dedicated to our satellite, celebrated every year on the date that coincides with the anniversary of the Apollo 11 landingwhich occurred on July 20, 1969. However, the history of lunar exploration begins long before ...
Winning a football World Cup is one of the most difficult feats to achieve, but managing to win it twice in a row is an even rarer feat: in the history of the World Cup only two national teams have achieved it. THE‘Italy Of Vittorio Pozzo won the editions of 1934 and of 1938while the Brazil won the title in ...
Is science neutral? Often, when we think of someone who works in science, one person comes to mind rational, rigorous, immune to prejudices and external pressures. Someone who manages to rise above personal opinions to observe reality in the most objective way possible and thus make science neutral and impartial. In practice, this is not entirely true: science is done ...
Specimen from Likaweli (C. congoensis) photographed in Lomami National Park. Credit: Daniel Rosengren – Hart JA et al. (2026) Likweli: A remarkable new species of Colobus monkey from the Lomami National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo. PLOS ONE In the dense rainforests of Democratic Republic of the Congobetween the Lomami River and the Lualaba River, the discovery of a new ...
At the restaurant you order the “octopus Luciana style” or the “polyp Luciana style“? At the supermarket, at the fish counter, do you ask for octopus or octopus? And there octopus is it the same thing? If you’ve ever had any doubts about the correct way to say it, you’re definitely not alone: octopus (pronounced with a closed O) and ...
Artist’s impression of the body of a comet: the plasma tail, the debris tail and the coma around the nucleus. Credit: NASA/SOFIA/ Lynette Cook According to a study published in Nature Astronomy, the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS it may have formed around one older star and poorer in metals than the Sunperhaps in the early ages of the history of the ...
Because the lane next to ours always seems faster. When we are in traffic, perhaps on the motorway, it always seems to us that the next row is moving faster than ours, but is it really always like this? Obviously our line isn’t always the slowest, but there are three good reasons why it seems right there to us our ...
44% of Italians check work emails even on holiday. In the common imagination, the holidays they represent a moment of professional disconnection in which to dedicate yourself to physical and mental recovery. Yet, for the 44% of Italians work continues to take up space even during the holidays. The latest to photograph this trend Workforce Confidence Index of LinkedIn, a ...