The growing number of shark bites is due to social media influencers encouraging tourists to try to pet this type of marine predator, The Times reported this Friday, which claims that selfie seekers are fueling the increase in shark attacks.
Vatican, May 7 – If the smoke is black, no new Pope has been elected. If it's white, a decision has been made: Habemus Papam—we have a Pope. It is a great event, broadcast live to millions of people.
A recent study has discovered that a kind of giant lid made of magma could be blocking the eruption of the supervolcano in Yellowstone National Park in the US.
Archaeologists have made an unexpected discovery off the coast of Costa Rica: two XVIII-century Danish slave ships. The ships, named Fridericus Quartus and Christianus Quintus, sank in 1710, according to the National Museum of Denmark, and the wrecks now lie off Cahuita National Park.
Spain, April 30. - A new species of snail measuring only five millimeters was found in Southeast Asia and due to its peculiar beauty and complexity of the shell, scientists associated it with a work of art, publishes the magazine ZooKeys.
Nepal, April 29.- The presence of 397 snow leopard specimens nationwide was recorded for the first time in a report based on data collected in seven study regions, a species considered a key indicator of ecological health in the high mountain ecosystems of Central Asia and the Himalayas.
Brasilia, April 27. - A 113 million-year-old ant that lived in northeastern Brazil is today the oldest example of that type of insect known to science.
Asunción, April 26. - The government of Paraguay announced the recovery of an original manuscript from 1539, stolen more than 100 years ago, after being identified at an auction in the United States.
USA, April 24 - There is a new color, outside the known chromatic scale, never seen before by the human eye, which has been born thanks to technology: it is called olo.
Some people can drink alcohol and wake up the next day without a headache, nausea, or fatigue, while many others suffer from the classic effects of a hangover, there is a group that seems to be biologically protected against these symptoms.
USA, April 19. - NASA's Curiosity robotic explorer has made a fundamental discovery that could rewrite our understanding of the ancient atmospheric conditions of the red planet. During its excavations in Gale Crater, the rover identified significant deposits of siderite, a carbonate mineral whose formation requires the presence of liquid water and an atmosphere significantly denser than today's.
NASA's Curiosity rover, which continues to explore the Martian soil, found evidence that could complete the puzzle of the climate history of the planet Mars.