Ecology

The putrefaction of a body, from the action of bacteria to the skeleton: all the phases

The putrefaction of a body, from the action of bacteria to the skeleton: all the phases

Credit: Giles Laurent, CC BY–SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Crime and horror lovers: have you ever wondered what happens when an investigator finds a putrefied body? How did he get like this? There putrefaction it is one of the fundamental processes of decomposition of organic material after the death of an organism. The bacteria anaerobes (which do not need oxygen ...

The paradox of choice: why too many options make us unhappy, according to science

The paradox of choice: why too many options make us unhappy, according to science

You’re on the couch, with the credits of the latest TV series you were watching. The drama begins slowly, with an innocent question: “what could I watch now?”. We know what happens next: hours and hours of endlessly scrolling through a streaming catalog. Science defines it as “paradox of choice“: intuitively we think that having many alternatives makes us happier, ...

The thumbs up doesn't always have the same meaning: the emoji in the Middle East is an insult

The thumbs up doesn’t always have the same meaning: the emoji in the Middle East is an insult

The “thumbs up” is a gesture that takes on different meanings depending on the country. Imagine that raise your thumb to say “ok” during a trip abroad and discover, to your surprise, that you have just offended your interlocutor. It may seem paradoxical, but many gestures that we consider intuitive or universal are not at all. According to studies on ...

Because early cycling was so extreme: 400km on 20kg bikes and tight roads

Because early cycling was so extreme: 400km on 20kg bikes and tight roads

Generated with AI Today we look at the riders of the Tour de France or the Giro d’Italia as elite athletes, followed by flagships full of spare bikes, nutritionists, doctors and earphones always on. But if we went back a little more than a century, we would find a radically different world: dirt roads, 20 kilo bicycles without gearsno technical ...

Which came first, bowling or the 45 rpm record? Colic challenges time to “Before or After?”

Which came first, bowling or the 45 rpm record? Colic challenges time to “Before or After?”

Come back “Before or After?”the branded quiz format Geopop conducted by Maria Bosco! After the debut with Dada and Marcolino, the game comes to life with the second episode. You know the mechanism well: the players find themselves faced with a board and a reference “zero event”. The goal? Place four other events in exact chronological order (two that happened ...