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Samsung has insisted on maintaining the identity of the S26 Ultra. The price to pay is the battery

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The Samsung Galaxy S26 They’re here, and to no one’s surprise, they’re extremely similar to last year’s. The time of having new mobile phones that are clearly better than those of the previous generation has long passed and we have seen that most of the new features come from the software side. Even so, in this family we see improvements in one of its models: in the S26 Ultra. Improvements in cameras, in power with the Next generation Snapdragon and one privacy screen which still seems like a magic trick to me. It also has a battery from the past: 5,000 mAh when China is betting on figures of 6,000 or 7,000 mAh. And there is a very simple explanation that has nothing to do with Samsung’s conservatism: you can’t have everything. And if the Galaxy S26 Ultra wants to maintain its hallmark, which makes it different in a calendar full of mobile phones that are very similar to each other, it must make sacrifices. I’m talking about the S-Pen. The sacrifice of the Galaxy S26 Ultra that… makes sense We are not going to fool ourselves: Samsung, Google and Apple are three companies that are being too conservative both with battery capacity and loads. They put in just enough so that this charge can be considered ‘fast’ while in China we see phones with new generation batteries that also have much faster charges. You may think that they do not bet on ultra-large batteries with crazy charges for a degradation issuebut it is really the Chinese companies that offer long-term tests on the charging cycles of their batteries. And an 80% degradation in a 7,000 mAh battery is not the same as in a 5,000 mAh battery. The problem is that, although the 4,900 mAh of the Samsung Galaxy S26+ They are unjustifiable from the user’s point of view, the 5,000 mAh of the Galaxy S26 Ultra is more understandable if we look at the insides of the mobile. As an example, I am going to put an image of the interior of the S25 Ultra of the video by JerryRigEverything: Interior of the S25 Ultra. Look how little space the battery has | Screenshot of JerryRigEverything Here we have several interesting things. On the one hand, the enormous space occupied by the SIM tray. Well, really, what it takes up… everything. More than a third of the rear is the plate with the SoC and the cameras, the bottom part is dominated by the speaker, the SIM slot and the USB-C port. and then we have an element that takes up a lot of space: the S-Pen. The SIM slot takes up a lot | Screenshot of JerryRigEverything The pen is stored inside the cell phone and takes up a good portion of it. It’s very easy to see the amount of space you’re stealing from a battery that’s already being suffocated by the rest of the components. And we cannot say that the S25 Ultra is small, precisely. Without the pencil in its compartment, we can better see what the battery is losing | Screenshot of JerryRigEverything When Apple removed headphone jack port He did it for several reasons. One was to be able to sell ourselves wireless headphones more expensive. The other was to scratch millimeters that could be used with the battery. The same thing happens with the most recent movement to banish physical SIM cards. In mobile phones where everything is extremely small and compact, the battery gaining only a few millimeters translates into greater capacities. Because, as much as Chinese mobile phones, especially the folding onesare mounting denser new generation batteries, it is still a space game: the bigger, the more capacity. At least with current technology. The S26 Ultra not only keeps the S-Penbut it is also somewhat thinner than the S25 Ultra while including a larger vapor chamber. No matter how much Samsung makes a denser battery, physically there are elements that steal internal space. This means that the 5,000 mAh must be maintained. Because if in other mobile phones, such as the aforementioned folding ones or in the ultra-thin ones like the iPhone Airwe see that the battery is the protagonist, in the S26 Ultra, in the Ultra family in general, it is just one more element. And here I have mixed feelings. It is true that it is shocking to see a mobile phone costing more than 1,400 euros with a 60 W charge and a 5,000 mAh battery when models like the Honor Magic8 Pro or the OPPO Find X9 Pro with more than 6,000 mAh or 75.00 mAh respectively and 100 W charges. However, the S26 Ultra remains unique in being special for something that many people continue to appreciate. The S-Pen is a very cool component that, although it has been losing functionalityallows us to write on the screen, edit documents and photos much more precisely than with our finger and, ultimately, it is an element that continues to exist because Samsung believes that its users continue to find value in it. If this were not the case, they would have long since loaded an element that makes the production of the mobile phone more expensive and prevents them from moving forward in another direction (adding more battery, for example). Therefore… yes, the S-Pen is mainly responsible for the 5,000 mAh of the Galaxy S26 Ultra. But, at the same time, it is what means that, in an era in which practically all mobile phones are the same, The Ultra continue to have that “special thing” that differentiates them from all the others. And, honestly: I hate Samsung for maintaining that hallmark (but let’s see if they can find the formula for the new silicon-carbon batteries that other manufacturers are already implementing). Photos | JerryRigEveryting, Xataka In Xataka | We already know why mobile phones with 6,000mAh are not arriving in Europe: there is a clear person responsible

Houses built on the sea are part of the US identity. Until climate change began to engulf them

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Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, has a problem. The Atlantic is devouring their houses. Literally. For years, the chalets raised on stilts and built on the coast were one of its most emblematic sights, but their privileged position has become a trap as the sea level rises and hurricanes occur like those that hit the area a few days ago. The result: eight houses demolished in record time. What has happened? That hurricanes Humberto and Imelda have left an unusual impression on the Outer Banksthe chain of islands that covers much of the coast of North Carolina, on the Atlantic coast of the United States, where the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. Recently the virulence of the waves devastated eight houses of the area, causing them to collapse in a matter of a few days. On Tuesday, September 30, the storm struck five homes in less than an hour in Buxton (Cape Hatteras), the sixth collapsed that same night amid waves of several meters, the seventh suffered a similar fate on the first day of October and the eighth did not last much longer. The buildings were unoccupied. Why is it important? Beyond how shocking it is to see homes swept away by waves, what happened on the North Carolina coast is interesting for several reasons. To begin with, because these are not typical houses. As can be seen in the videos and photos released by C.B.S., AP, BBC either NBC The buildings were houses similar to stilt housessupported on exposed wooden piles. Hence they are a unmistakable piece of the landscape from areas like Rodanthe. Are they the first to fall? No. And that is the second reason why what happened in recent days in the Outer Banks is much more than a curiosity or a misfortune attributable to two virulent hurricanes. A quick search in the newspaper archive arrives to find similar news: two houses on wooden stilts collapsed in September 2024 in Rodanthe, another in November in the same community, another demolished in 2023 precisely because of the threat of the Atlantic waves… the list goes on and on until there are more than a dozen cases. USA Today calculate that since mid-2020, at least twenty houses have been lost throughout the Outer Banks. Very similar data handles Washington Postthat assures that during the last five years 17 buildings have collapsed in Rodanthe and Buxton alone, a list that could soon be expanded, since there are other houses that are also in a precarious situation. “It’s becoming commonplace,” he resigns Rob Young, director of a program focused on coastal studies at Western Carolina University. “It’s not a problem here. There are homes on the verge of collapse in many places.” Why do they fall? In the case of the houses that collapsed in recent days, the final trigger was the Hurricanes Humberto and Imeldabut in reality the problem is broader. Their position, the sandy nature of the terrain but above all the intensification of storms and the rise in sea level caused by climate change is leaving them in a complicated situation. The reason: coastal erosion, a phenomenon that is already is felt in Rodanthe and Buxton. How does it affect them? As I remembered last year in X the architect Pedro Torrijos, the Cape Hatteras It is already such a narrow strip of land that it is difficult not to build near the coast, but in the last 40 years erosion has acted in such a way that today there are houses that have remained practically above the sea. And so it’s a problem. Piles that were once surrounded by dunes are now sometimes covered by the ocean, affecting their foundations. In 2024 the state Department of Environmental Quality published a report which concludes that of almost 8,800 structures built facing the sea in North Carolina, 750 They are in a delicate situation due to erosion. What do the US authorities say? They are aware of the problem, they are controlling the houses that give in and explore solutions“These are typical elevated coastal-style homes, situated on stilts, with a concrete driveway, parking, and septic system. Many private properties adjacent to Rodanthe, which previously contained patio land, dunes, and dry sand, are regularly partially or completely covered with seawater,” the National Park Service acknowledges. “During severe weather events, private homes facing the sea and in vulnerable areas are hit by strong winds and large waves, which has caused homes to collapse in recent years,” recognize the agency, which has counted 21 collapsed houses since 2020 in Seashore. And what is the way out? Good question, difficult answer. There are those who have chosen raise your houses or even move them away to leave them safe from the waves (for now), but it is not a cheap solution and time is against them. Another option is for the authorities to take care of them, although it has its weaknesses: two years ago the Park Service acquired two houses in Rodanthe to demolish them and thus open an area of ​​public access to the beach. They cost him $700,000. Images | Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Flickr) and National Park Service In Xataka | Milton once again puts a big problem on the table: houses on the beach are losing their value due to climate change

streaming loses identity in exchange for catalog

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One of the Main own content factories From the Spanish audiovisual panorama and one of the largest streaming platforms thanks to its exclusive distribution of franchises such as Marvel, ‘Star Wars’, Pixar or Disney itself have reached an agreement with which both will see their audiences and catalogs extended. However, after this firm between Atresmedia and Disney+ there is an indisputable trend of international audiovisual: less and less exclusive names that provide unique content, more and more brands that match each other in search of the maximum common denominator of the audience. 300 hours per year. That is what Atresmedia will provide to Disney+ with this treatment. He current television leader In terms of audience, he gives a selection of its catalog to Disney+ from September, which will have an independent space within the platform that will be renewed regularly. It will not be, of course, the Atresmedia’s full catalogwhich belongs to your payment option (and also can be seen from prime video) and that reaches thousands of hours of content and practically all the own production programs that are broadcast on Antena 3. The novelty with Disney+ is that this selection of its catalog will be included in the Disney+ Rates. What will we see. Even with everything, the catalog that will be available in Disney+ will be wide: from original Atresplayer series as ‘Mar outside’ (premiere on September 14) talent shows well known by the general public, such as ‘La Voz’ or ‘Your face sounds to me’. There will also be series that have passed in Antena 3 such as ‘La Crucijada’ or ‘Dreams of freedom’, and classic series of the Atresmedia catalog, such as ‘vis a vis’, ‘physical or chemical’ or ‘here there is no one who lives’, which have long circulated through different platforms of streaming. Touch contact. It is not the first time that contact shots between large Spanish audiovisual groups and platforms of streaming. Recently, Netflix has begun to broadcast Movistar Plus+ series as the comedy ‘Dead SL’, the youth ‘Merlí’ and ‘The least thought day’. On the other hand, Mediaset series such as ‘Influencers’, ‘Scandal’, ‘The one that is coming’, ‘The people’, ‘The Prince’ or ‘Interdías’ have been seen on platforms such as Netflix or Prime Video. And we should not understand it only as an understandable attempt by the producers that their material reaches beyond the channels in open and enjoy second and third lives (sometimes more successful than the original paths, there is the spectacular and unusual case of ‘The Money Heist‘, by Atresmedia), but also of an attempt to “normalization” by the platforms of streaming. Everyone wants to be mostly. For years, streaming platforms have abandoned their intention to offer an alternative product to major televisions, In search of a broader audience. There are examples as clear as the purchase of brands as ‘Operation Triunfo’ by Prime Videobut the fact that ‘the one that is coming’ is One of the main successes of the Amazon Canal It makes it clear that the public is often transversal: there are no two watertight compartments, where or it looks Netflix or looks Telecinco. Many times there are two audiences, but with the same interests. The law asks. To this trend is added that eThere is European legislation that requires platforms on demand since 2018 that a part of its content when they operate in Europe is of European origin. It is the European Directive of Audiovisual Communication Services, and at least 30% of the platform catalog must be reserved for European works. This requirement must be incorporated into the national legislation of the Member States, and part of this content must be available in one of the official languages ​​of the country where the platform operates. In this way, Disney+ is fulfilling its share of this directive, adding to, as they have told today, “recent agreements in the United Kingdom with ITVX and in Germany with ZDF.” Be normal. Payment platforms have long ceased to be a paid land for experimentation. For leaving, even They ceased to be a television space without advertising. There are redoubts like HBO or Filmin, which often (although not always: there is nothing more massive than ‘Game of Thrones’) play more exquisite audiences. But what we have seen is a trend that forces us to create content without rest: if the rhythm of consumption is multiplied and the budgets of the Disney series are too high to release at the speed of Netflix … Doesn’t it have all the meaning they call at the door of Atresmedia in search of more and more material to emit? Header | Disney+ In Xataka | When analyzing the most viewed films of Netflix during this year, the notes and opinions throw a devastating verdict

The great language models ignore the deepest identity of Mexico. The government’s response is to create your own

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Chatgpt, Gemini, Claude, Calls, Deepseek. Today there are dozens of conversational models available to anyone. Some are open, others free. So why did Mexico decided to create its own? What can a national model contribute that Silicon Valley, Europe or Beijing giants do not contribute? The answer has less to do with technology and more with culture. Mexico has announced The development of its own artificial intelligence language model with Mexican cultural identity and inclusion of indigenous languages. When AI does not understand everything. The best known models of today are powerful and versatile, but were not designed to understand the linguistic and cultural diversity of all countries. Their training data prioritizes English and, although many other languages such as Spanish speak, usually sin of low sensitivity to local expressions or original languages. A recent IDB Lab, LlyC and Microsoft study It shows that only 54% of the responses in indigenous languages were correct (the remaining 46% presented errors or mixtures of languages). In particular, in Maya and Quiché the understanding and expression barely reached 1.25/10, while in Nahuatl it was 3.42/10 and in Guaraní 2.77/10 What did the Mexican government say. The Secretary of Economy, Marcelo Ebrard, announced that Mexico will present in November (12 and 13, Expo Santa Fe, CDMX) The advances in its own language during the “Mexico ia + accelerated investment” forum. “If we do not hurry to dominate that alphabet, we will face a very significant disadvantage in this new context that is emerging today,” said. Who does it and how much it costs. The Ministry of Economy, under the direction of Marcelo Ebrard, heads the initiative with the Business Coordinating Council (CCE) and with the technological support of Nvidia, which will provide training and hardware without investing capital in the project. According to the CCE, the construction of the data centers will require an approximate investment of 9,000 million dollars. What will the model be like. The model plans to train with cultural data from Mexico, Mexican Spanish and active indigenous languages. Mexico recognizes 68 linguistic groups and 364 variants (INALI), forces Corpus’s fine collection and healing work. What are other countries doing. In Latin America, a coalition of countries will launch Latam-GPT in September 2025, Led by Cenia (Chile) with the support of more than 30 institutions. It is born to represent regional cultural and linguistic diversity and functions as a regional collaborative project. In Europe, Spain promotes aliaa public infrastructure of models in Spanish and co -official languages. Images | Xataka with Gemini 2.5 Flash In Xataka | The Electoral Institute of Mexico used a synthetic voice such as that of the Dragon Ball narrator. The actors went out

What is Phishingalert and how to use it to avoid scams of impersonation of identity on online casinos

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Let’s explain What is and how the service works Phishingalert of the Government of Spain. It is a security service with which you can be notified when they are registered with your data in an betting house, and thus prevent them from using some campaign of Phishing First to steal your data and then to use them for this purpose. We are going to start the article explaining what this system is and how you can understand what it really does. Then, we will tell you how you can register in it. What is the Phishingalert system The Phishingalert system is a service launched in 2023 by the General Directorate of Planning of the Game (DGOJ), belonging to the Ministry of Consumer. It is a system of alerts for impersonation of identitywith which to be on warning if someone wants to cheat you in an alert house. Every month we receive several Phishing messages with which cybercriminals try to get our personal data and data from our cards. And in addition to these methods, there may also be some data filtration of some online service that includes your card number or similar. With these personal data of yours, something that many cybercriminals do is Register with your name in betting houses To cheat you with it. Come on, they get through you, use your bank account, and When you want to account They have scammed 300 euros in an betting house. Or it may also happen that they do not use your bank data, and that Only use your ID To supplant your identity. In these cases, everything played in betting houses could appear in your income statement even if another person has played, so you also have to pay for it. And this is where phishingalert comes into play, a service you can register if you want to Prevent unauthorized registrations in online gambling. Specifically, in those gambling included within the scope of Law 13/2011, and in which an identification is needed to play, and that is collaborating with the DGOJ identity verification system. Come on, you should know that It doesn’t work for all online gaming In general, but for those most reliable and legal, those who really verify your identity. When you register in Phishingalert, you will receive A report with all the services that have verified your identity So far, online game operators. So you can know if someone has used your data without your permission. In addition to this, once you have registered, every time a new gaming operator verifies your identity when registering, it will compare that data with the people registered in Phishingalert. Names, surnames, birth date and ID will be verified. AND If there is a coincidence with your data, a notification will be sent to you To indicate that you will have to go to the online service to complete the registration. How to register in Phishingalert To register in this alert service for phishingalert identity supplantation, you have to go to the official service website. Enter the page Sortingand in it click on Online presentation. That will appear. This will take you to a very old -looking page. In it, you have to click on the button Register That will appear above all. Now you will go to a pretty confusing page. In it you have to ignore the buttons in above, and go down to the section of Protection of personal data. In it, Choose one of the options for NATURAL PERSONS REGISTRATIONwhich can be without Digital certificate and introducing your data by hand, but you can also do it using any of them, including the FNMT certificate and the DNIE. In addition, you can also use the Permanent key. Now you will go to a page where you have to fill your data. If you have used your digital certificate, the personal will be registered. In addition to your name and surname, or your ID, you also have to Choose the notification formwhich can be by email or by normal mail. In addition, you also have to write your email twice to receive communications, write a password that will combine with your ID to log in, and your mobile phone to receive any notice also. Now you will go to a screen where, under an introductory text you will see the data you have chosen. In the event that you are satisfied with them click on the button Confirm That appears on you. When you do, it will be sent to you An email with a link To verify your data. When you press it, you will have to log in and ready, you will have registered. In Xataka Basics | What is the difference: malware, viruses, worms, spyware, Trojans, ransomware, etc.

It is a redefinition of your identity

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Telefónica prepares to take an important step in the Spanish media landscape: will bid on an open television channel After the appointment of Javier de Paz as non -executive president of Movistar+, according to The economist. The movement, which coincides with government plans to auction a new DTT license, as advanced The confidential In summer citing his own sources, he could materialize through an agreement with Spanish shareholders critical with his current president, Joseph Oughourlian. This decision comes in A critical moment for the centenary telecus. Telefónica, who has reached a hundred years overcoming all kinds of transformations, is now at a strategic crossroads that will define his future. The commitment to open TV is not just a tactical movement: it is part of a deeper reflection on its corporate identity. The Teleco lives Months of great changesbut it remains trapped between two worlds that perfectly represent their existential dilemma: On the one hand, the traditional telecommunications business, where the margins narrow, the competition intensifies and the relevance decreases. On the other, the aspiration to transform into a technological company with the capacity to compete in lands of greater added value. The open channel – positively under the name ‘the seventh’, A continuation of the Plan in a hurry– I would be A new chapter in this attempt at diversification. The interesting thing here is how different needs converge In this initiative: For Telefónica, it is an opportunity to expand its presence beyond payment television, especially valuable due to uncertainty about the rights of football that They must be renewed In a couple of years. For certain shareholders in a hurry, it is an alternative to their disagreements with the current address. And for the government it offers the possibility of expanding the media spectrum with a new actor. He Telefónica Business Context Explain many of your current decisions. The paradox that Pallete left in his management is remarkable: reduced the debt in half while the stock market collapsed 57%. The market message could not be clearer: financial sanitation is no longer enough, investors seek growth stories, not survival. And in that field, diversifying to an open channel can offer precisely the attractive narrative they need. The Murtra-Gayo duo, Telefónica’s new guard, looks like a more prone tandem to explore this type of territories. The entrance of the Saudies and the State via Sepi facilitates to make riskier decisions than in the previous stage. The panorama of the DTT that Telefónica would face is complex: it is a mature market in which Mediaset and Atresmedia capture almost 85% of advertising investmentabout 1.7 billion euros a year. This approach to the media is not exclusive to Telefónica or the Spanish market. AT&T opted to become a media company acquiring Warner (although he ended up selling it years later). Verizon bought Yahoo and Aol and then get rid of both in half of what cost him. Vertical integration between distribution and contents has proven to be a complicated path … but potentially profitable If you run precisely. And above all, seeing beyond direct return. What distinguishes this case is its coordination with the regulatory agenda. The project to take a new TDT channel coincides with the Government Democracy Action Planwhich includes measures for media transparency and sector aid. This synchronization raises questions about the independence of the future channel, but also offers a framework for its viability in a highly competitive market. For Telefónica, Beyond the potential economic return, an open channel represents a new dimension of influence. At a time when its traditional business is being questioned and when it seeks to position itself as more than a simple “tube” of data, the ability to generate and distribute your own content, and to gain influence, takes a strategic value that transcends quarterly balances. The real challenge will not be to get the license – the wind blows in favor – but to convert this initiative into a coherent component of its digital transformation. Telefónica has demonstrated its ability to reinvent itself over a century. Now you must prove that you can do it once again in an environment that changes much faster than before. This step It may seem a simple business diversification, but hides redefinition of one of the Spanish business giants and their relationship with political and media power. The final spectator will barely intuit the background currents that will determine what he will see on his screen, but it is precisely these dynamics that will shape what we will consume in the coming years. And it will be the cotton test to check if giant born when the phone was a luxury can finally find your voice in the noisy digital ecosystem of the 21st century. From Xataka We have contacted Telefónica to contrast the information published by The economistbut the Teleco has declined to comment on. Outstanding image | Telefónica In Xataka | 100 years after his birth, Telefónica faces the greatest existential dilemma in its history: what wants to be older

This man is the first person who flies to space without revealing his identity. They haven’t taken to find out who it is

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Six people traveled yesterday to the Blue Origin suborbital rocket. One was Jesús Callejathe first television presenter that crosses the line of Kárman as part of the filming of a documentary. In the same ship another five people flew. Four of them, millionaire businessmen and executives who had paid for the flight. The sixth crewman was an anonymous person. Was An anonymous person because on the Internet there are difficult secrets to maintain. Context. They are already going 52 people That they fly to the space with Blue Origin since Jeff Bezos, the owner of the company, premiered the small New Shepard rocket with his brother Mark, the aviator Wally Funk and the young Oliver Daemen (the oldest woman, with 82 years, and the youngest man, with 18, in crossing the border of the space). Taking into account that just 719 people have traveled beyond the 100 kilometers of altitude, Blue Origin’s space tourists begin to be a multitude in the select club of people who have gone to space. With its flights for millionaires of just 10 minutes, the New Shepard rocket has a growing record of records: the oldest man (William Shatner), the first Mexican (Katya Echazarreta), the first Portuguese (Mário Ferreira), etc. What they had not had until now was an anonymous passenger. The first suborbinaut without name. Of the 719 people who have flown to space so far, none had done without revealing their name. The astrophysician Jonathan McDowell knows it well, who maintains a database of all space flights in historystarting with Yuri Gagarin on April 12, 1961, and Alan Shepard, on a suborbital flight, 23 days later. When McDowell went to update his database with the crew of the NS-30 mission of Blue Origin, he decided not to settle for the unknown of the sixth traveler (the first stain of the history) and asked his followers (in a tweet now erased) if they could find out who he was. Most of the answers reproached McDowell having used their influence to try to expose a person who wanted to remain anonymous. Others They wondered If it could be the camera of Jesús Calleja (but why hide his identity, then?). Until, finally, one of McDowell’s followers found who he was. R. Wilson. Blue Origin had diligently complied with his client’s desire. The mysterious traveler He went out to face discovered In the official photos and videos of the mission, but on the web, on social networks, in the press releases, in the retransmission of the launch, Blue Origin only mentioned the first five passengers with name and surname, adding: “and a sixth crewman whose name has not been revealed.” What did not help the man to preserve his identity was to have his initial and his last name embroidered in the space suit: R. Wilson. However common the last name Wilson was enough to French YouTuber Ufotinik He will find his full name and news about him on the Internet. An Australian cryptocurrency. Jesús Calleja mentioned in an interview that an Australian friend had done on the mission. Perhaps he refers to Russell Wilson, founder of the Coinspot cryptocurrency exchange platform, based in a modest Melbourne building. According to a report of 2023 of the Daily MailWilson leads a discreet life in the city’s suburbs, although he has paid 538 million dollars in dividends. The report includes a photo of the businessman, who already maintained a low profile and avoided public attention, delegating media appearances in his executives while led the company from anonymity and following strict security protocols. He failed to maintain anonymity then, nor has he achieved it on his trip to space. But McDowell’s efforts for not letting an entry into its database only reinforce the initial idea of ​​this article: space tourists are beginning to be a crowd in the select club of people who have gone to space, so we will see more and more eccentricities above the karm line. After all, career astronauts, those of space agencies, are officials chosen and formed to the extreme for a single thing: act according to the protocols and be predictable in any situation. Images | Blue Origin In Xataka | Jesús Calleja is already a history of Spanish space exploration: its launch is a success and has taken him to space

For 15 years a strange circle under an island in Japan was an enigma. The author’s identity was a surprise

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If we go to the dictionary to be exact with the term, the verb “courtej” accompanies the following definition: try to get the love or favors of someone flattering him and looking for his company. Therefore, the finding that took place several decades ago was so surprising. Normally, when we talk about courting WE THINK HUMAN KEY. However, in the animal kingdom they exceed everything seen in our species when it comes to claim the attention of the other. The enigma of the circles. In 1995, a group of divers who were exploring the waters near Amami ōshima, Japan, Japan, They discovered strange circular formations In the seabed. It was surprising, since those structures were symmetric, with radial spikes and valleys, and with such a prominent geometric perfection that it aroused all kinds of speculation about their origin: were they facing a human creation, or was it due to some kind of unknown natural phenomenon , or maybe an unusual organism? The years passed, and it was not until 2011 that A team of scientists managed to solve the mystery. Not just that. They managed to “catch” the suspect repeating the lavish scene. To the surprise of the researchers, the protagonist was A tiny torquigener albomaculosusa small kind of balloon fish that, with a size of just 12 centimeters, seemed to be able to sculpt structures 16 times larger than their own body with a very specific purpose: seduce a couple for reproduction. The art of courtship under the sea. The year of the finding, the scientists recorded the process of creating these circles in the seabed, observing up to 10 reproductive events in two study areas. Each structure took between seven and nine days to complete and required extreme precision. The male balloon fish used its pectoral, anal and flows fins to dig and model the sand in a perfect radial pattern, alternating between rapid and strategic pauses movements To give texture to the formations. In addition, he decorated the peaks of his work with decorative elements such as shells and coral fragments, while the center of the circle was completely clear as we see in the images. Only when these final details were ready, The females began to approach to evaluate the design of the “artist”. The mating ritual. At this point, when a female was interested in the structure, The male stirred the fine sand of the center to attract his attention. If she decided to enter the circle, the male withdrew momentarily before swimming quickly towards her in a repetitive courtship dance. If the female was impressed, she put her eggs in the center of the circlemaking it a temporary nest. If that was already fascinating, shortly after it was revealed that the impressive structures were never reused, they were of only one use. After reproduction, males leave their creation and begin a new one from scratch, since the process of sculpting the circle consumes most of the finest and most adequate sand for reproduction. This apotheosic nest construction ritual, documented years later In the Big Pacific series of BBC Earth/PBS and narrated by Sir David AttenboroughHe has amazed biologists and spectators since then. Ephemeral art. No doubt, the complex work of the balloon fish is One of the most fascinating exhibitions of the animal kingdomcomparable to the elaborate dances of mating of birds or the constructions of some mammals. However, what makes these structures unique is that these are true underwater works of art, carefully designed and molded with geometric precision. In addition, its discovery also offered a new perspective on the evolution of courtship in vertebrates. Although humans tend to think about art and architecture as exclusively ours capacities, these seabl , all that, and surely something else, in the extraordinary work of a tiny creature. Image | H KAWASE et al (2017) FISHES, CC by 4.0 In Xataka | What science tells us about when a romantic relationship will be a success or complete failure In Xataka | We have lost track of one of the few mammals that put eggs. Now we have rediscovered it

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