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Beneath Bologna’s vibrant tapestry of Renaissance architecture lies a hidden treasure, a collection of pressed flowers meticulously gathered five centuries ago by the renowned naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi. These delicate specimens, now housed in the University of Bologna’s Herbarium, have emerged as an invaluable chronicle of the city’s shifting landscapes and the profound impact of human activities and climate change. In 1551, Aldrovandi embarked on an ambitious project to document the flora of Bologna and its surrounding hills. Over 35 years, he meticulously collected, pressed, and labelled thousands of plants, creating one of the wealthiest and most comprehensive botanical records of…

For over half a century, the figure gracing the cover of Led Zeppelin’s iconic album “Led Zeppelin IV” has remained an enigma. The stooped, grey-bearded man, clutching a bundle of hazel on his back, has become synonymous with the album’s enduring legacy. However, the identity of this enigmatic figure has finally been revealed. Through painstaking research, Brian Edwards, a visiting research fellow at the University of the West of England, has identified the man as a late-Victorian thatcher from Wiltshire, England. Edwards stumbled upon the original photograph, a black and white image captured by renowned photographer Ernest Howard Farmer while…

The recent outage that brought down Optus’s internet and mobile services across Australia has left many customers frustrated and disconnected. While the exact cause of the outage remains under investigation, experts suggest it may have been triggered by the same issue that caused Facebook’s massive outage in 2021. Cloudflare, a company that tracks internet activity, observed a surge in Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) announcements from Optus around the time the outage began. BGP serves as a roadmap for internet traffic, directing data packets to the most efficient routes. According to Matt Tett, managing director of network analysis company Enex TestLab,…