Ecology

Which countries have the most data centers: Italy is in 10th place with 209 structures

Which countries have the most data centers: Italy is in 10th place with 209 structures

AI-generated image for illustrative purposes. Every online search made, every streaming video watched, every message sent passes through physical infrastructure: i data centers. With this term we indicate large technological structures that host servers (i.e. computers designed to provide services to other computers across a network) as well as data storage systems, network equipment and complex cooling systems. In other ...

Can aggression be learned just by observing it? The Bobo doll experiment

Can aggression be learned just by observing it? The Bobo doll experiment

The Bobo doll experiment. In the 1961 the Canadian psychologist Albert Bandura demonstrated, with an experiment that later became a cornerstone of social psychology, that children can learn complex behaviors, such asaggressioneven just through the simple observation of such behaviors in adults. This was not at all obvious in an era (the 1960s) that was dominated by behaviorist theories (behaviorism), ...

Airlines' possible contingency plans for the fuel crisis

Airlines’ possible contingency plans for the fuel crisis

Image generated with AI Cutting lunchtime flights, those departing on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and reducing short routes: these would be some of the first hypotheses of airlines to respond to the possibility of a lack of jet fuel in Europe in the coming months, which should then be confirmed, pending the new guidelines from the European Commission aimed at airlines ...

White and green asparagus are the same plant, the difference depends on how they are grown

White and green asparagus are the same plant, the difference depends on how they are grown

Have you ever noticed that you can find asparagus in the supermarket white, green and sometimes even purpleall apparently similar but with very different flavors and prices? These are not different species: it is the same exact planttheAsparagus officinalis L. (Liliaceae family). The color difference depends, in most cases, on how and where it is grown. White asparagus is in ...

50 years ago the 1976 Friuli earthquake: how it changed emergency management in Italy

50 years ago the 1976 Friuli earthquake: how it changed emergency management in Italy

The earthquake in Friuli from 1976 it was the most violent earthquake recorded in Northern Italy in the instrumental era and the fifth most intense earthquake recorded in Italy. At 9.00 pm the earth shook with a violence that had not been seen in the area for centuries: the tremor, with its epicenter in the area of Gemonanorth of Udine, ...

Where to put the Wi-Fi router to best cover the whole house and which places to avoid

Where to put the Wi-Fi router to best cover the whole house and which places to avoid

Place correctly the Wi-Fi router at home can have a serious impact on the quality of our home connection. If we want every room in the house to receive a stable and sufficiently powerful signal, we must consider carefully where to place it and how to orient the antennas. Ideally, the router should be located in a central point, away ...

The evolution of athletics tracks: from ash to engineered synthetic ones chasing records

The evolution of athletics tracks: from ash to engineered synthetic ones chasing records

When we watch a race athleticsit comes naturally to us to focus on athletes and their performances. Much more rarely do we focus on what lies beneath their feet: the track. Yet, the evolution of the surfaces on which athletics compete is one of the factors that have most contributed to changing performances throughout history. From the dirt tracks of ...