Ecology

December 12, 2025, how many °C was there today in previous years? Let's compare temperatures

December 12, 2025, how many °C was there today in previous years? Let’s compare temperatures

Many times we find ourselves wondering “But was it that cold last year?” or “But was it this hot in other years?”. These are questions that can be answered by searching through the meteorological archives, and that’s what we did: we bring you the temperatures of December 12th scheduled for Milan, Rome, Naples And Palermocompared with those of the same ...

What is the origin of the Maori people and how their society developed

What is the origin of the Maori people and how their society developed

The people Maori has become internationally famous both thanks to haka – the ritual dance performed by the All Blacks before each rugby match – and thanks to the animated blockbuster Oceania. But their story, in reality, is much more detailed and complex than that and has its roots in Oceania. How did the Maori people arise? We don’t know ...

How much the cost of Christmas 2025 has increased compared to 2015: the Federconsumatori survey

How much the cost of Christmas 2025 has increased compared to 2015: the Federconsumatori survey

The Christmas 2025 will bring with it more acquisitionsbetween gifts for friends and family and typical products to bring to the table: this year, however, the costsas highlighted in the Federconsumatori survey, which revealed a average price increase of +3.7% compared to 2024. Comparing the price trend over the last decade, in 2025 buy a panettone it will cost us ...

The climate and the arrival of Homo Sapiens would have made the "Hobbits" of Flores extinct: the study

The climate and the arrival of Homo Sapiens would have made the “Hobbits” of Flores extinct: the study

A new paleoclimatic study conducted on a stalactite from the island of Flores, Indonesia, shows a marked decline in rainfall between 76,000 and 55,000 years ago, with a peak of aridity shortly before the disappearance of Homo floresiensisone of the most curious and well-known extinct human species, which lived between 700,000 and 50,000 years ago and is considered an example ...

The strongest web in the world is that of female Darwin's bark spiders

The strongest web in the world is that of female Darwin’s bark spiders

In the forests of Madagascar hides the Darwin’s bark spider (Caerostris darwini), a natural “engineer” famous for weaving the cobwebs toughest on the planet. These structures, long too 25 meters and wide up to 2.8 square metershave been found suspended above rivers and are made of silk ten times stronger than Kevlarthe material of bulletproof vests. However large they are, ...

The Apocalypse Glacier in Antarctica is increasingly unstable: the consequences of a possible collapse

The Apocalypse Glacier in Antarctica is increasingly unstable: the consequences of a possible collapse

Credit: NASA The Thwaites Glacierknown as “glacier of the Apocalypse”, in West Antarcticait’s becoming increasingly unstable. Its ice shelf floating on the ocean is fracturing and its anchor point to land is weakening. If the glacier were to disintegrate and melt completely, the sea ​​level could rise by more than 1 metre. The mechanism by which Thwaites is losing ice ...

The Gulf of Suez is widening by half a millimeter per year: new study

The Gulf of Suez is widening by half a millimeter per year: new study

The Red Sea, the Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba. Credit: NASA The Gulf of Suezthe arm of the sea that extends in the northern part of Red Sea delimiting the Sinai peninsula, it progressively widens at the rate of approximately 0.5 mm per year. It is the result of the study by a team of Chinese, French ...

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Comet 3I/ATLAS is rich in precursors of life molecules: ALMA’s discovery and new images

Image of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope on November 30, 2025. Credits: NASA, ESA, STScI, D. Jewitt (UCLA), M.–T. Hui (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory). Image Processing: J. DePasquale (STScI). The radio interferometer ALMAin Chile, found that the comet 3I/ATLAS releases copious amounts of methanol (CH3OH) e of hydrogen cyanide (HCN), molecules involved in the synthesis of ...

December 11, 2025, how many °C was there today in previous years? Let's compare temperatures

December 11, 2025, how many °C was there today in previous years? Let’s compare temperatures

Many times we find ourselves wondering “But was it that cold last year?” or “But was it this hot in other years?”. These are questions that can be answered by searching through the meteorological archives, and that’s what we did: we bring you the temperatures ofDecember 11th scheduled for Milan, Rome, Naples And Palermocompared with those of the same date ...