Italy, Feb 12. - Located on the Italian island of Sicily, the Etna volcano continued to expel lava on Monday through a fissure on the southern slope of the crater called Bocca Nuova, which contrasts with the snow around the formation.
An international team of astronomers has confirmed the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting HD 20794, a star with a mass slightly less than that of the Sun located 20 light years from Earth, reports the University of Oxford.
RT, Feb 10. - A new study has discovered why some diseases share the same genetic variants.
Canaria, 8 Feb. - In Finding Nemo (2003), little Dory and Marlin faced a terrifying creature in the abyssal depths: a fish with a luminescent biological trap and a mouth full of sharp teeth. That scene, which made the black devil, or abyssal anglerfish (Melanocetus johnsonii), popular, seemed taken from an underwater nightmare.
United Kingdom, Feb 7. - A team of scientists has discovered the brain mechanisms that allow animals to suppress instinctive fear responses, a finding that could help develop therapies to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and anxiety.
Havana, Feb 5. - The planets of the Solar System will be aligned in a so-called cosmic celebration on February 28, an event that will not be repeated until 2492, specialized media reported today.
Elon Musk has urged sending a mission to Mars to investigate a mysterious square structure recently observed on the surface of the red planet.
Lima, Jan 31. - A multidisciplinary team from the Ministry of Culture of Peru (Mincul, for its acronym in Spanish) discovered a pyramidal building from the pre-Columbian Caral culture, considered the oldest in America, located in the north of the Lima’s department.
Artificial intelligence (AI) has crossed a red line of the risks that this technology represents for society by achieving successful self-replication without human assistance, according to a study recently published on the arXiv preprint service by scientists at the Chinese Fudan University.
Africa, Jan 29. - Egypt is one of the world's transcontinental countries due to its unique geographic location. Port Said, on the African continent, and Port Fuad, on the Asian continent, are connected through the Suez Canal, which serves as a natural boundary between Asia and Africa. This canal, in addition to being a strategic maritime route, symbolizes the union between both continents.
Mysterious chirping signals have been detected by an international team of astronomers in a place in space where they have never been identified before, raising serious questions about their origin, AP reported this week.
USA, Jan 25. - The largest iceberg in the world maintains its movement and could head north from Antarctica to the British overseas territory, in the southern Atlantic Ocean, South Georgia.