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As the darker months set in, concerns about home break-ins rise across Europe. Police are now warning about a particularly unusual method spreading from Italy to other countries, including Germany: the so‑called “cookie trick.” What sounds almost humorous at first glance is, in fact, a simple but effective tactic used by burglars to identify empty homes. A New Burglary Method From Italy According to the Italian daily Leggo.it, authorities have reported a surge in break-ins involving this peculiar strategy. German outlets, including Ippen Media, note that similar cases have already…

A team led by microbiologist Cristina Purcarea from the Institute of Biology at the Romanian Academy has uncovered a remarkable ancient microorganism deep within the Scarisoara Ice Cave in the Carpathian Mountains. The discovery, published in Frontiers in Microbiology, sheds new light on the origins of antibiotic resistance — and may even point toward future medical breakthroughs. A Window Into the Distant Past To reach the bacterium, researchers drilled a 25‑meter ice core from an underground glacier inside the cave. The sample containing the strain Psychrobacter sp. SC65A.3 was extracted…

Researchers from the Universities of Leeds and Liverpool have uncovered surprising evidence of colossal, ultra‑hot rock formations hidden nearly 2,900 kilometers beneath our feet — structures that may have shaped Earth’s magnetic field for hundreds of millions of years. A Dynamic World Beneath the Crust Although humanity has ventured more than 25 billion kilometers into space, our understanding of Earth’s interior remains remarkably limited. The deepest man‑made borehole, drilled on Russia’s Kola Peninsula, reaches just 12 kilometers — barely scratching the planet’s thin crust, which ranges from 5 to 70…