Ecology

Can I take an expired drug? No, here's why and how to dispose of them correctly

Can I take an expired drug? No, here’s why and how to dispose of them correctly

If you have an expired medicine at home, do not take it. After the expiry date, defined by the manufacturing companies according to stringent international guidelines (ICH)processes may occur degradation of the active ingredient or excipients which may result in a lower effectiveness of the active ingredient, in the formation of toxic compounds dangerous to your health or in a ...

At the Campi Flegrei week of low seismicity and ground lifting at 15 mm/month: the INGV bulletin

At the Campi Flegrei week of low seismicity and ground lifting at 15 mm/month: the INGV bulletin

At the Campi Flegrei 36 earthquakes recorded by the INGV. To the Phlegraean Fields there seismicity stay low for the third consecutive week: the latest weekly bulletin of the INGV Vesuvian Observatory (relating to the period from 26 January to 1 February 2026) recorded 36 earthquake tremors of maximum magnitude 1.4 (a slight increase compared to the 24 earthquakes of ...

How to count to 144 with your hands: the scientific trick

How to count to 144 with your hands: the scientific trick

How to count to 60 with your hands? Just count on phalanges instead of on the fingers with a method that in the simple version allows us to count up to 60, but in the more complicated version up to 144. This counting method consists of counting the units on the phalanges of a hand and the dozens with your ...

A hidden detail in Anne Boleyn's portrait proves that she was not a witch

A hidden detail in Anne Boleyn’s portrait proves that she was not a witch

A detail that remained hidden under a famous painting for almost five hundred years has come to light, revealing a forgotten but precious story. It is the Guardian that reveals that, using infrared technology, a group of scholars has found another drawing under the surface layers of a famous sixteenth-century English painting, a triangular shape, which tells us what some ...

In Kazakhstan there is one of the largest offshore oil deposits in the world: how it is extracted

In Kazakhstan there is one of the largest offshore oil deposits in the world: how it is extracted

The oil field Of Kashagan Fields (Kazakhstan) represents to date one of the most significant discoveries of the last half century in the oil sector. With his 38 billion barrels of crude oil”in place” (present on site) is among the largest offshore fields – on the seabed of territorial or international waters – discovered in recent decades. To extract it, ...

What is Moltbook, the social network where artificial intelligences talk to each other without humans

What is Moltbook, the social network where artificial intelligences talk to each other without humans

Moltbook represents an unprecedented case study in the evolution of digital platforms: it is a social network designed exclusively for interaction between AI agentswhere humans are allowed access only as silent observers. Launched in the wake of the open source software Moltbot, this platform emulates the structure of news aggregators such as Redditallowing bots (i.e. automated programs created by users) ...

Artemis II mission, launch to the Moon postponed to March: why it won't leave in February

Artemis II mission, launch to the Moon postponed to March: why it won’t leave in February

The SLS rocket during the wet dress rehearsal procedure of the Artemis II mission. Credit: NASA There Artemis II mission – which will bring man back around the Moon for the first time in 54 years – has been officially postponed: this was confirmed by the NASA administrator, Jared Isaacmanwho through a post on X communicated the decision by the ...