Sofia Quaglia

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Sofia Quaglia

3 hours agoEngineer, pioneer, businesswoman, pilot, mother and rumoured spy - Monica Maurice wore many hats throughout her remarkable life. For nearly four decades, she ran Wolf Safety Lamp Company in Sheffield and played a key role in making the work of thousands of miners safer with innovative …

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Sofia Quaglia

Ask NYT ClimateWe asked the experts how to make smart choices at the fish counter, for your health and for the environment. Credit... Photo Illustration by The New York Times; Shutterstock Fish and seafood can be a more environmentally friendly protein choice than other animal foods like beef, pork, and chicken. But you need to choose carefully. Not all fish are sustainable.

1 month ago | newscientist.com | Sofia Quaglia

A colossal squid — the largest invertebrate on the planet — has been filmed alive in its wild habitat for the first time. For decades, the Kraken-like colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) was more myth than reality: scientists had only a vague sense of its appearance from fragments of its remains found in the stomachs of the whales that eat the molluscs. In fact, it was through those remains that the species was officially described by zoologists in 1925.

1 month ago | newscientist.nl | Sofia Quaglia

Het aantal dinosaurussen was mogelijk stabiel voor de inslag van de planetoïde. Dit gaat in tegen eerdere aanwijzingen uit fossielen die erop wezen dat de dinosaurussoorten al afnamen. De populaties van dinosaurussen gingen waarschijnlijk niet achteruit in de periode vlak voordat een planetoïde ze allemaal wegvaagde. In plaats daarvan zijn er misschien simpelweg weinig fossielen uit die periode. Daarop wijst nieuw onderzoek.

1 month ago | newscientist.com | Sofia Quaglia

Life The number of dinosaurs may have been stable before the asteroid impact, despite evidence that species were getting less diverse Dinosaurs likely weren’t declining before an asteroid wiped them all out; instead, there may just be limited fossils from that time period, according to a new study. It has been hotly debated whether dinosaur populations were thriving or dwindling when a huge asteroid slammed into the planet about 66 million years ago.