Alcuni organismi in natura hanno sviluppato la capacità di entrare in uno stato di metabolismo sospeso, chiamato criptobiosi, quando le condizioni ambientali diventano particolarmente sfavorevoli. Questo cambiamento di stato richiede l’esecuzione di una combinazione di percorsi genetici e biochimici che consentono di sopravvivere per periodi prolungati. Di recente alcuni esemplari di nematoda (noto anche come verme cilindrico) sono stati rianimati […]

In ferie, irrinunciabile momento di relax per staccare dalla routine quotidiana, ma alle prese con gli aumenti e il caro prezzi. È questo il dato principale che emerge dall’analisi di Federalberghi, che anticipa i valori di tendenza su quest’estate 2023: 34,7 milioni gli italiani che hanno già trascorso o trascorreranno una vacanza fuori casa durante il periodo estivo, dormendo almeno […]

Da metà giugno l’Agenzia Spaziale Italiana ha un nuovo presidente. A ricoprire l’incarico è Teodoro Valente, 58 anni, ex direttore dell’Istituto per i Polimeri, Compositi e Biomateriali del CNR ed esperto di materiali polimerici e compositi e nanotecnologie. Ha preso il testimone da Giorgio Saccoccia, che ha concluso il suo mandato. Avrà il compito di guidare il mondo dello spazio […]

Immediately after the laying of the laurel wreath in homage to the Unknown Soldier by the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella and the performance of the hymn to the fallen, the Frecce Tricolori flew across the sky of Romewith the traditional passage over the Altare della Patria to celebrate Republic Day.

The American President Joe Biden announced an agreement between major companies engaged in the development of artificial intelligence. The companies are aAmazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI. The agreement was announced in a short speech Roosevelt room in which he also affirmed that this was only a first step and that it was his own Administration is attempting […]

Food consumption by Italian families is declining, while eating out or using home grocery delivery is increasing. This emerges from an in-depth study by the Confindustria study centre. “In 2022 – so we read – consumption by Italian households grew by 4.6%, exceeding analysts’ expectations. At the end of the year it was declining (-1.7%), in the first quarter of […]

Futuro24: New life for data from old space missions The European Space Agency’s archives at Frascati are recovering valuable data collected by satellites several decades ago and still stored on old spools

It’s a 10-meter-long humpback whale that’s on a major migration from the frigid polar waters along Australia’s coasts that will take it thousands of miles north, where temperatures are milder, to mate and give birth to its young. These are Sea World Foundation volunteers who rescued the whale just off the Gold Coast, south of Brisbane.She was caught in a […]

An incredible fossil has kept intact the picture of the struggle for survival that took place 125 million years ago between a dinosaur and a mammal. The dramatic moment with The two animals cling to each other As the little carnivore sinks its teeth into the dinosaur, it was “crystallized” by a volcanic eruption. The discovery, published in the journal […]

I am 15.6 million Italians decided to go on holiday in Julywith an increase of 1% compared to the same period last year. This emerges from the Coldiretti/Ixe analysis on the first weekend of the month that traditionally marks the beginning of the great upheavals in Italy, marked this year by price increases. The 2023 holidays show a clear preference […]