Ecology

The anticyclone begins to weaken in Italy, stop the heat in the North-East: thunderstorms and temperature drop of up to 6°C

The anticyclone begins to weaken in Italy, stop the heat in the North-East: thunderstorms and temperature drop of up to 6°C

The map of storms arriving in Europe in the next 24 hours. After weeks of almost absolute hegemony of thesubtropical anticyclone, the meteorological scenario over Italy is undergoing a metamorphosis important. THE‘high pressurewhich locked the Mediterranean atmosphere in a bubble of static, muggy heat, began to give in along its northern perimeter. This first weakening has already triggered a series ...

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The Houthis announce a maritime blockade against Saudi Arabia: the risks for the Bab el-Mandeb Strait

The Strait of Bab el–Mandeb, marked with a red X. There truce between the United States and Iran it’s officially skippedwith mutual attacks now increasingly intense in recent days and the reintroduction of US naval blockade. Now the conflict, however, risks spreading beyond Persian Gulf: Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels just announced a maritime embargo against Saudi Arabia. To understand why ...

A cyborg cockroach could help find missing people in water: it can last up to 3 hours

A cyborg cockroach could help find missing people in water: it can last up to 3 hours

A cyborg cockroach wearing a “diving suit”. Credit: Nanyang Technological University A group of researchers carried out a very particular experiment on a cockroach in a study published in Nature Communications. The research team of Fan and Sato, from Nanyang Technological University of Singapore have built and made the cockroach “wear” a small one “mutt” which allows him to breathe ...

How to activate Advanced Privacy on WhatsApp to protect chats: the settings to change

How to activate Advanced Privacy on WhatsApp to protect chats: the settings to change

If you have a WhatsApp account and you care about your privacy, there are some settings of the famous messaging application that you should change if you want to prevent your contacts, or even unknown users who have come into possession of your number, from using some data visible on your account to “spy” on you in some way. In ...

Because International Moon Day is celebrated on July 20th: from Apollo 11 to the bases of the future on the Moon

Because International Moon Day is celebrated on July 20th: from Apollo 11 to the bases of the future on the Moon

Artistic rendering showing the possible lights seen from space of real cities on the lunar surface. Credit: NASA International Moon Day (IMD) is the international day dedicated to our satellite, celebrated every year on the date that coincides with the anniversary of the Apollo 11 landingwhich occurred on July 20, 1969. However, the history of lunar exploration begins long before ...

Science is not neutral: it is influenced by the social context, but remains reliable

Science is not neutral: it is influenced by the social context, but remains reliable

Is science neutral? Often, when we think of someone who works in science, one person comes to mind rational, rigorous, immune to prejudices and external pressures. Someone who manages to rise above personal opinions to observe reality in the most objective way possible and thus make science neutral and impartial. In practice, this is not entirely true: science is done ...

A new species of monkey discovered in the Congo rainforest: the rare mask-faced Likweli

A new species of monkey discovered in the Congo rainforest: the rare mask-faced Likweli

Specimen from Likaweli (C. congoensis) photographed in Lomami National Park. Credit: Daniel Rosengren – Hart JA et al. (2026) Likweli: A remarkable new species of Colobus monkey from the Lomami National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo. PLOS ONE In the dense rainforests of Democratic Republic of the Congobetween the Lomami River and the Lualaba River, the discovery of a new ...

Do you say octopus or octopus? Both are correct, but they are not exactly the same thing

Do you say octopus or octopus? Both are correct, but they are not exactly the same thing

At the restaurant you order the “octopus Luciana style” or the “polyp Luciana style“? At the supermarket, at the fish counter, do you ask for octopus or octopus? And there octopus is it the same thing? If you’ve ever had any doubts about the correct way to say it, you’re definitely not alone: octopus (pronounced with a closed O) and ...