Ecology

How smell contributes to interpersonal relationships: the influence of scents and odors in social dynamics

How smell contributes to interpersonal relationships: the influence of scents and odors in social dynamics

The sense of smell has long been considered a “secondary” sense compared to sight and hearing in understanding the human social behaviors. However, contemporary research in cognitive neuroscience, social psychology and evolutionary biology is progressively reevaluating its importance. Smell is not limited to perception of environmental odorsbut actively participates in building interpersonal relationships, as friendly as they are loving, influencing ...

Asteroid 2010 RF12 has a 10% chance of hitting Earth in 2095, but won't do any damage

Asteroid 2010 RF12 has a 10% chance of hitting Earth in 2095, but won’t do any damage

Purely illustrative artistic representation created with AI. Currently, the record for the highest probability of impact between an asteroid and the Earth goes to 2010 RF12a small “space rock” near-Earth of the Apollo group already passed 79,000 km from Earth in 2010 and which has 1 in 10 chance to hit the Earth the 5-6 September 2095. Fortunately, even in ...

Car tax on the IO app: how to check the deadline and pay everything from your smartphone

Car tax on the IO app: how to check the deadline and pay everything from your smartphone

Image created with AI. THE’IO appthe official platform of the Italian Public Administration, available free of charge for Android and iOS, allows you to receive reminders about the expiration of your car tax and pay it directly from your smartphone. This system exploits PagoPAthe digital payment platform for the PA, to allow quick transactions with card or current account. The ...

Canceled flights and expensive fuel, the new EU Commission guidelines on ticket refunds

Canceled flights and expensive fuel, the new EU Commission guidelines on ticket refunds

There European Commission he published new guidelines for the transport sector, hit by the crisis in the Middle East: the closure of Strait of Hormuz in fact, it is also having direct repercussions on the airline sector and, as the summer season approaches, consumers’ concerns about possible cancellations of flights. However, after some airlines asked their passengers to supplement the ...

An artificial island perhaps older than Stonehenge discovered in Scotland: it is a 5000-year-old crannog

An artificial island perhaps older than Stonehenge discovered in Scotland: it is a 5000-year-old crannog

Overview of Loch Bhorgastail, with the crannog. Credit: Blankshein et al. In the Loch Bhorgastailon the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, in Scotlandthere is a small island that at first glance seems like a natural accumulation of stones. It is instead a so-called “crannog“, aartificial island built by man beyond 5,000 years agoIn the Neolithic. The archaeologists ofUniversity ...