Ecology

Would the human race have been born in Europe? Let's clarify the case of Graecopithechus freybergi

Would the human race have been born in Europe? Let’s clarify the case of Graecopithechus freybergi

Fictional depiction of Graecopithecus freybergi. Credit: Velizar Simeonovski. A new scientific publication on a hominid lived in Balkans about 7 million years ago He’s making a lot of noise about himself. For decades the origin of the human evolutionary line has been placed in Africa. The oldest fossils of the hominini (there evolutionary tribe that includes our species, Homo sapiensand ...

March 10, 1946: 80 years ago the first time Italian women went to the polls

March 10, 1946: 80 years ago the first time Italian women went to the polls

When we talk about women’s suffrage in Italy, the June 2, 1946day of the institutional referendum and the election of the Constituent Assembly. In reality, the “debut” of women in political life occurred a little earlier: on March 10, 1946when in many Italian municipalities they voted for first post-war local elections. On that occasion, Italian women were able to go ...

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How the Incas created the largest empire in South America

You’re watching Ancient peoples Don’t miss out on more content from Geopop The Inca they have achieved more 40 thousand km of roads at the top of the most impervious Andean mountains, despite an extremely harsh climate, landslides, earthquakes and construction methods far removed from those of today. But not only that! They were the largest pre-Columbian civilization in South ...

Pensions in Europe: why the retirement age is increasing and what will happen by 2060

Pensions in Europe: why the retirement age is increasing and what will happen by 2060

Some before and some after, all around the age of 65 and with the prospect of exceeding 70. The retirement age in Italy and Europe is a curve that tends to grow. According to the last one Report on medium-long term trends in the pension system of the State Accounting Office, the retirement age should rise in our country than ...

How Paralympic skiing works for blind athletes: looking through another person at 100 km/h

How Paralympic skiing works for blind athletes: looking through another person at 100 km/h

Generated with AI. Skiing along a snow-covered slope to beyond 100 km/h without seeing – or seeing very little – it seems impossible. Yet, in the paralympic alpine skiingit’s normal. How do these athletes a orient yourself? Who decides when to turn, brake or “let go” of the skis? And above all: how important is trust in the person in ...

A huge deposit of rare earths discovered in the Pacific seabed: an estimated 16 million tons

A huge deposit of rare earths discovered in the Pacific seabed: an estimated 16 million tons

Generated with AI The Japanese government recently announced the potential discovery of one of the largest deposits of rare earths – strategic resources for current technological development – ​​on the bottom of thePacific Oceanapproximately 6000 meters deep, near the island-atoll of Minamitorishima. Estimates are around 16 million tons of rare earthsan amount that can satisfy the Japanese technology industry for ...

Why NATO cannot force Italy to go to war: what the art says. 5 of the Atlantic Pact

Why NATO cannot force Italy to go to war: what the art says. 5 of the Atlantic Pact

What does Article 5 of the NATO Treaty provide for the military involvement of Italy and the other member states of the Alliance. Following thejoint attack Of United States And Israel against theIranthe conflict in the Middle East has now entered the height of an unprecedented escalation, also involving other countries in the region: the news of the last few ...

Recognizing videos generated with artificial intelligence is increasingly complicated: how to do it

Recognizing videos generated with artificial intelligence is increasingly complicated: how to do it

Succeed in distinguish a real video from one generated by artificial intelligence is becoming an increasingly complex challenge. In recent years the so-called deepfakethat is, those synthetic contents that imitate real people, voices and situations, have reached levels of realism that can potentially deceive anyone. Today, video generation tools based on machine learning models allow even those with little advanced ...