The skies of the past months have given us many surprises. Here are my 4 favorite images of summer 2024. 2024, July 9: Noctilucent Clouds over Florida These clouds are doubly unusual. First, they are …
Images of a summer
Love seen by Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
At the end they’ve done it! The research published on Cerebral Cortex leaded by the group of the Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering, Aalto University, Finland, has finally get an image of love. How? …
The apple of concord
The “Tutti apple”, the result of a 20-year, multinational partnership, is the world’s first ever hot-climate apple. New climate-resistant variety is first branded fruit to be released from the Hot Climate Partnership, a collaboration between …
Give flowers: received flowers produce positive moods
Recent studies of wellbeing and psychology prove that flowers have immediate and long-term effects on emotional reactions, mood, social behaviors and even memory for both males and females. Women who received flowers reported more positive …
Are we alone in the Universe?
More than 5500 exoplanets have been discovered. An exoplanet is any planet beyond our solar system. Most of them orbit other stars, but some free-floating exoplanets, called rogue planets, don’t belong to any star. Most …
Invasive species removal could help restoring coral reef functioning
The presence of invasive species in birds breeding habitats threatens seabirds globally, detrimentally affecting the population trajectories. In particular, invasive rats are estimated to be present across 90% of the world’s archipelagos, where they directly …