Wojtek the bear, born in 1942 near Hamadan, Persiais an ursid famous for having “fought” during the Second World War. Less than a year after his birth he came into contact with the Polish soldiers ofAnders Armya unit formed in the Soviet Union and later attached to the British Army. The soldiers “adopted” the bear, who in 1944, after having ...
As soon as you wake up, there are those who immediately reach for their toothbrush and those who don’t even want to hear about it before having coffee. But who is right? Should you brush your teeth as soon as you wake up and before breakfast or after consuming the first meal of the day? Science tells us that there ...
Animation of Siri AI in the iPhone’s Dynamic Island. Credit: Apple. Apple’s new assistant, renamed Siri AIis not a simple update of the old Cupertino voice assistant, but a completely “revised and corrected” system, built on the Apple Intelligence platform, capable of understanding the user’s personal context, reading what appears on the screen and drawing on the Web in real ...
Antoni Gaudí y Cornet, via Wikipedia Commons. Walking to Barcelonacapital of the Spanish region of Catalonia, features a series of extraordinary palaces and constructions from unique, colorful and organic style (architectural approach based on man-nature harmony). These works all bear the name of Antoni Gaudí and Cornetknown simply as Antoni Gaudí. The architect, born on 25 June 1852 and died ...
The crew of the Artemis III mission. From left Andre Douglas, Luca Parmitano, Randy Bresnik and Frank Rubio. Credit: ESA There NASA officially presented the crew of the lunar mission Artemis IIIscheduled for the second half of 2027: Italian Luca Parmitano (the only astronaut of the European Space Agency) will be the pilot of the mission, accompanied by US astronauts ...
Imagine a robot working continuously for months, alone, in total darkness at a depth of 3,000 metres, where the water pressure is equivalent to having 100 cars above your head. It’s not science fiction: we went to Trieste, to the Saipem base, to see it live. It is called Flatfish and is an underwater drone approximately 4 meters long, designed ...
For the first time in the history of the Web, Traffic generated by automated software has surpassed that generated by humans: almost 6 out of 10 connections are generated by machines. This is shown by the latest data from Cloudflare Radar, according to which bots, crawlers and AI agents now represent the 57.4% of web requestsversus 42.6% attributable to human ...
Image created with AI for illustrative purposes only A sensational bureaucratic and evaluation error led Italy to lose a precious masterpiece from 1350, Madonna with Child, of the Master of the Baptistery of Parma. Mistaken for a minor work from 1850, apparently due to an oversight in reading the date, the painting was regularly exported to Switzerland in 2020 and ...
Paleoartistic representation of a specimen of Jian changmaenensis (left), in the act of preying on a Gansus yumenensis (right). Credit: Lewis LaRosa, Jão Canola. In the Xiagou training of the Changma Basin, in northwestern Gansu, in North-central Chinaa group of scientists fromInstitute of Vertebrate Paleontology Paleoanthropology of theChinese Academy of Sciences, he found further 100 skeletons partials of Lower Cretaceous ...
Earthquake in Cuba measuring 6.1. A strong one earthquake of magnitude 6.1 hit the island of Cuba at 1.00 pm (local time, 8.00 pm in Italy) yesterday, Monday 8 June 2026, as confirmed by the USGS. The epicenter was located at sea, approximately 104 km from Mantualocated on the west coast of the island; the hypocenter, however, was detected at ...