++ Leader europei arrivati alla Casa Bianca ++ – Notizie – Ansa.it

I sette leader europei, tra cui la premier italiana, Giorgia Meloni, stanno arrivando alla Casa Bianca per l’incontro con Donald Trump e Volodymyr Zelensky. Il primo ad arrivare è stato il segretario generale dela Nato, Mark Ruttte. Macron, Starmer, Merz, von der Leyen, Stubb e Rutte sono stati accolti con…

Forget LASIK: Safer, cheaper vision correction could be coming soon

Millions of Americans have altered vision, ranging from blurriness to blindness. But not everyone wants to wear prescription glasses or contact lenses. Accordingly, hundreds of thousands of people undergo corrective eye surgery each year, including LASIK — a laser-assisted surgery that reshapes the cornea and corrects vision. The procedure can…

Columbia scientists may have found a universal antiviral

For a few dozen people in the world, the downside of living with a rare immune condition comes with a surprising superpower — the ability to fight off all viruses. Columbia immunologist Dusan Bogunovic discovered the individuals’ antiviral powers about 15 years ago, soon after he identified the genetic mutation…

Hubble just snapped the clearest-ever picture of a rare interstellar comet

A team of astronomers has taken the sharpest-ever picture of the unexpected interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS using the crisp vision of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble is one of many missions across NASA’s fleet of space telescopes slated to observe this comet, together providing more information about its size and physical…

Un altro morto per il taser, 41enne colpito a Genova – Notizie – Ansa.it

Un’altra persona è morta dopo essere stata colpita con il taser dai carabinieri: si tratta di un uomo di 47 anni di origini albanesi che è deceduto a Sant’Olcese, sulle alture di Genova, nella serata di domenica. I colpi, secondo gli inquirenti, potrebbero aver provocato nell’uomo un arresto cardiaco. La…

Incendi in Spagna, bruciati oltre 340mila ettari – Notizie – Ansa.it

 Oltre 343.862 ettari di vegetazione sono stati ridotti in cenere dall’ondata di incendi che dall’inizio dell’anno ha colpito la Spagna, una cifra record per il Paese tra quelle finora registrate nei rilevamenti dal Sistema Europeo di Informazione sugli Incendi Forestali (Effis).E’ quanto emerge dai dati odierni diffusi dall’organismo.Finora il record…

Strange new shapes may rewrite the laws of physics

How can the behavior of elementary particles and the structure of the entire universe be described using the same mathematical concepts? This question is at the heart of recent work by the mathematicians Claudia Fevola from Inria Saclay and Anna-Laura Sattelberger from the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the…

Ultimi giorni di caldo e sole, arriva la burrasca di fine agosto – Notizie – Ansa.it

Sull’Italia l’estate si prepara a crollare. L’inizio di settimana sarà ancora all’insegna del caldo e del sole, con qualche temporale pomeridiano tipico del periodo, ma la svolta è dietro l’angolo, e porterà con sé un brusco peggioramento delle condizioni meteo. Federico Brescia, meteorologo del sito www.iLMeteo.it, conferma una svolta imminente,…

Greenland’s glacial runoff is powering explosions of ocean life

As Greenland’s ice retreats, it’s fueling tiny ocean organisms. To test why, scientists turned to a computer model out of JPL and MIT that’s been called a laboratory in itself. Runoff from Greenland’s ice sheet is kicking nutrients up from the ocean depths and boosting phytoplankton growth, a new NASA-supported…

Scientists just found a hidden factor behind Earth’s methane surge

Roughly two-thirds of all emissions of atmospheric methane — a highly potent greenhouse gas that is warming planet Earth — come from microbes that live in oxygen-free environments like wetlands, rice fields, landfills and the guts of cows. Tracking atmospheric methane to its specific sources and quantifying their importance remains…

Scientists uncover the lost shelduck that chose walking over flight

The discovery of yet another unique animal species from Rēkohu Chatham Islands illustrates how the physical qualities of an animal are influenced by its surroundings. New research led by the University of Otago – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka describes a new, extinct shelduck whose ancestors arrived on the islands 390,000 years…

The surprising way rising CO2 could supercharge space storms

Rising concentrations of carbon dioxide in the upper atmosphere will change the way geomagnetic storms impact Earth, with potential implications for thousands of orbiting satellites, according to new research led by scientists at the US. National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF NCAR). Geomagnetic storms, caused by massive…