Why more and more people are dying from shark attacks
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Shark attacks always make the news. And by reading about it in the newspapers, it is easy to get the impression of an increasingly present …
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Chernobyl wolves have developed anti-cancer genetic mutations
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Following the 1986 Cherobyl accident, approximately two square kilometers of forest around the former Soviet nuclear power plant were declared off-limits to humans. And in …
Maxi explosion on the Sun, the Earth in the sights of a gigantic sunspot
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A gigantic sunspot, almost 12 times the size of the Earth, has put our planet in its sights in the last few hours and could …
“A burning star on Earth”: the swansong of the European nuclear fusion reactor
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The European EUROfusion consortium, following the verification and validation of the scientific data obtained in the deuterium and tritium (DT3) experiments at the end of …
In 2024, Italy risks remaining (again) without water
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January 2024 was the warmest in history: if many can look forward to milder temperatures considering the savings in heating bills, however as a corollary …
What’s this about Viagra to prevent Alzheimer’s
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Sildenafil, better known by the trade name Viagra, is the most popular drug in the world for the treatment of erectile dysfunction. It has a …
A new creature has been discovered, smaller than viruses, which lives like a parasite in our mouths
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Biologists have been debating the correct definition of a living organism for more than a century. To decide, for example, whether it should also include …
“Very strange trees”, in the Paleozoic the plants had a very different shape
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We imagine the Earth of the distant past as a vegetal, exotic and luxurious paradise, but in reality we know very little about what plants …
The oldest lipstick in the world has been discovered: it is 4 thousand years old
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A lip lipstick dating back 4,000 years has been found by a group of researchers in Iran: it is the oldest find of this kind …
Elon Musk’s first microchip has been implanted in a human brain
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A microchip in the human brain. Elon Musk has announced that his startup Neuralink has installed its first brain implant in a human, with “promising …
Children who speak “before others”: sex has nothing to do with it
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The first words arrive around the first year of life. Then the vocabulary expands, increasingly longer sentences appear, small monologues, and between the second and …