Ecology

Clearing the cache on Android can speed up your smartphone: here's how to do it

Clearing the cache on Android can speed up your smartphone: here’s how to do it

It is one of the simplest operations to do and also one of the most effective for improving the responsiveness of your Android smartphone. We are referring to the clearing the cache. When we browse the web or use apps, the system automatically saves a large amount of temporary files, which are useful for faster reloading of content already viewed ...

Toni Servillo at PopCorner, among Sorrentino's films, theater and euthanasia

Toni Servillo at PopCorner, among Sorrentino’s films, theater and euthanasia

New appointment with Pop Cornerthe space where sciences meet entertainment, music, cinema and culture. Today we host one of the greatest Italian actors, Toni Servilloto talk about his latest film directed by Paolo Sorrentino, Grace (seventh collaboration with the Neapolitan director later The extra man, The consequences of love, The star, The great beauty, They and It was the hand ...

What is “Land grabbing” and how world powers are grabbing Africa's lands

What is “Land grabbing” and how world powers are grabbing Africa’s lands

Image generated with AI. The land grabbing, in Italian “land grabbing”, is the phenomenon whereby governments, multinationals or private investors purchase or appropriate large portions of land in the poorest countries, often to the detriment of local populations. The tendency of the most powerful to grab other people’s lands is nothing new, it is as old as the Human Being ...

The story of the snowball, the accidental invention of the most famous souvenir in the world

The story of the snowball, the accidental invention of the most famous souvenir in the world

It might seem really curious, but the snowballs — the dioramas enclosed in a glass bowl that we overturn to make it snow on the painted landscape — are born from a hospital experiment: their inventor, Erwin Perzy Iin reality, he was trying to improve the electric light bulb. These objects (also known as “snow globes” and “snow globes”), which ...

The landslide in Niscemi does not stop, houses up to 50-70 meters from the front are at risk: the geological causes

The landslide in Niscemi does not stop, houses up to 50-70 meters from the front are at risk: the geological causes

Landslide in Niscemi (CL). Credit: Salvo Cocina There landslide occurred yesterday in Niscemiin the province of Caltanissetta in Sicily, is still underway. Second Except Cocinadirector of the Sicilian Civil Protection, it is a landslide “unprecedented” for Sicily. The situation worsened starting from late yesterday afternoon, with others sagging which caused a widening of the landslide front and an increase in ...

The sea nut invades the Venice Lagoon and threatens the local ecosystem

The sea nut invades the Venice Lagoon and threatens the local ecosystem

It is one of the 100 most harmful invasive species in the world and now represents a real threat to the ecosystem of the Venice lagoon. Let’s talk about the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyibetter known as sea ​​nuta transparent gelatinous organism with a lobed body of about 10 cm. The problem is raised by a new study conducted byUniversity of Padua ...

How to count to 99 with your fingers using the Korean Chisanbop method

How to count to 99 with your fingers using the Korean Chisanbop method

Value of fingers in counting in Chisanbop. The Chisanbop is a Korean method of counting with hands that allows you to arrive up to 99 and easily perform mental calculations. It was invented around 1940 and is structured as follows: there right hand represents the units: the thumb it’s worth it 5While the other fingers they are worth each one ...

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Yellowstone, a deformation of the caldera detected: what it means and what are the eruptive risks

There Yellowstone volcano caldera, in Wyoming (United States) it rose 2 cm in its northern edge. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported this anomaly, thanks to radar and GPS surveys. The lift was recorded between July and September 2025 and, although it is not remarkable, it must be monitored carefully since Yellowstone (journalistically defined as a “supervolcano”) is one ...

Woolly rhino DNA found in the stomach of a wolf: it dates back 14,000 years

Woolly rhino DNA found in the stomach of a wolf: it dates back 14,000 years

A recent study published in Genome Biology and Evolution by Guðjónsdóttir and colleagues describes the recovery and analysis of the DNA of a woolly rhinoceros from a fragment of tissue found in a completely unexpected context: the stomach of a frozen wolf cub in the ground for more 14,000 years and discovered in 2011 in northeastern Siberia. From that small ...