Ecology

Which countries spend the most on military defense in 2026: from the USA to Russia

Which countries spend the most on military defense in 2026: from the USA to Russia

USA, China and Russia are the countries that spend the most on defense. Since the dawn of time the military capacity has constituted one of the fundamental attributes of any country system. Today, in an era characterized by the re-explosion of violence wars conventional on a large scale and by a consequent one arms race on a global scale, it ...

Over 1,000 bone gaming dice discovered in France in the Gallo-Roman city of Grand

Over 1,000 bone gaming dice discovered in France in the Gallo-Roman city of Grand

Some of the dice found in Grand, dated between the 1st and 3rd centuries. d. C. Credit: Sites de Grand et Domremy–la–Pucelle More than 1000 bone gaming dice, engraved with extreme precision, they were discovered by archaeologists during the excavation campaign conducted in July 2026 to Grandin the Vosges, in the France eastern, on the site of the ancient Gallo-Roman ...

Hurricane Isaias towards the United States: it is the first Atlantic hurricane of 2026, because it is late

Hurricane Isaias towards the United States: it is the first Atlantic hurricane of 2026, because it is late

Hurricane ISAIAS, New Year’s Day 2026 in the Atlantic. Source: Windy.com In the Gulf of Mexico it was born Hurricane Isaias, Category 1, and now it’s targeting the southern United States. It’s about the first hurricane of the 2026 Atlantic seasonwhich arrived with a strong delay compared to the climatological norm due to the probable inhibitory effect exerted by El ...

Optogenetics, from the study of algae to the Nobel Prize for Medicine: applications for the retina

Optogenetics, from the study of algae to the Nobel Prize for Medicine: applications for the retina

Edited image. Credits: from McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, via Wikimedia Commons On October 5, 2026, Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagelfor the research that allowed the development of theoptogeneticsa technique that has revolutionized the way we study the brain and nervous circuits. Thanks ...

Why Anne Carson won the 2026 Nobel Prize for Literature and the unpredictability of the prize

Why Anne Carson won the 2026 Nobel Prize for Literature and the unpredictability of the prize

The illustration shared on the official Nobel Prize website depicting Anne Carson After the Nobel Prize for Medicine, the Nobel Prize for Physics and the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, today the Nobel Prize for Literature 2026 to the Canadian writer Anne Carsonpoet, essayist, translator and scholar of the classical world. The announcement came on Thursday October 8, 2026 by the ...

Why Italy has had so many electoral laws since 1948: from proportional to Stabilicum

Why Italy has had so many electoral laws since 1948: from proportional to Stabilicum

Why Italy has changed so many electoral laws. But why did our country have so many electoral laws? To get an idea, from 1993 to today in Italy they were well approved 5 electoral laws (of which 1 never applied): in the same time period, there were 8 political elections to elect members of Parliament. The answer to this question ...

OpenAI publishes 722 mathematical results produced by AI: how it obtained them with the new model

OpenAI publishes 722 mathematical results produced by AI: how it obtained them with the new model

OpenAI has published 722 mathematical papers. To date, 719 are under evaluation. OpenAI posted on GitHub 722 mathematical articles obtained thanks to an internal AI model not yet available to the general public. The catalogue, published on 6 October 2026, currently includes 719 articles, a smaller number than the initial 722 3 results have already been “disproven” and, in all ...

Stabilicum or Melonellum? How the new electoral law works and what changes for the 2027 elections

Stabilicum or Melonellum? How the new electoral law works and what changes for the 2027 elections

The Chamber of Deputies has approved the new electoral law. Today, 8 October 2026, the Chamber definitively approved the new electoral lawrenamed Stabilicum (or Melonellum by opposition parties) which will be applied to the next general elections, scheduled for 2027. The electoral reform introduces a proportional system with strong majority bonus: to the coalition that will obtain at least the ...

There is a "barcode" for every species of living organism, what is DNA barcoding

There is a “barcode” for every species of living organism, what is DNA barcoding

The DNA barcoding it is a genetic technique that allows you to identify living species by analyzing a short standardized sequence of theirs DNAused exactly as if it were a barcode. It works on the same principle as supermarket checkouts: a scan on the classic black and white lines is enough to instantly reveal the identity and origin of a ...

Why the price of diesel rose again: how the mobile excise duty mechanism works

Why the price of diesel rose again: how the mobile excise duty mechanism works

The price of diesel increased by 6.1 cents per litre. The price of diesel he returned to go out after the government has not extended the discount on excise taxes for diesel: consequently, it is skipped also the price cap of 2.19 euros per liter set by the oil company Eni (followed by others such as IP, Q8 and Tamoil, ...