In 2026, more than one Italian teenager in three (37.1%) between 14 and 17 years old he used at least one nicotine product in the last 30 days. Translated into numbers, it means that approx 851,400 boys and girls of school age use traditional cigarettes, heated tobacco or electronic cigarettes. This photograph was taken by the new investigation of National ...
Representations of the muon beam passing through a lead target. Credits: ELI–NP A group from ELI-NP (Extreme Light Infrastructure Nuclear Physics), a research center located in Romania that studies the frontiers of nuclear physics through the use of extreme intensity laserproduced a laser beam (considered one of the most powerful in the world) to create a particle beam and ran ...
AI-generated image for illustrative purposes. Research published in GeoScienceWorld identified an imposing fossil supervolcanohidden in the depths of the subsoil of theEastern England, in the area of The Wash. It is a monumental structure, today completely leveled by erosion and hidden under hundreds of meters of sediment, which in a distant geological past was the protagonist of one of the ...
Image generated with AI for illustrative purposes only. Italian inflation has returned to highest level of the last three years. According to the preliminary estimate released by Istat, in September the national consumer price index rose by 0.7% month-on-month and 4.2% year-on-year, up from 3.3% in August. And it’s all due to the rise of energy prices. Italians have noticed: ...
APOD of October 1st, photograph by the Italian Dario Giannobile. It is the Full Moon of September, also called the Harvest Moon, with Etna erupting in the background. Not everyone knows it but every day, for more than thirty-one years, on the “Astronomy Picture of the Day” (APOD) page, NASA publishes a selected image or photograph depicting “our fascinating universe”, ...
US President Donald Trump has announced that in the USA artificial intelligence will no longer be called that, but “Super Intelligence”, in short “YES”. On September 29, 2026, Trump signed a executive order requiring federal agencies and departments to use this new name in public communications and official documents. This name change is not tied to any particulars technological improvementbut ...
A new study published in Nature from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai mapped the development of 1.3 million brain cells from 0 to 97 years old, creating the first molecular map High-resolution image of the long dorsolateral prefrontal cortex the entire span of human life. With this study neuroscience has managed to fill a fundamental gap: Before ...
When in Italian we say “my parents”, “the students” or “my colleagues” to indicate a group of people of different sexes, we automatically use the masculine pluraleven though the group is made up of 99 women and only one man. It’s a rule we take for granted, but it’s not universal: it just is the most common solution among the ...
A galvanizing process Steel, despite being among the most used construction materials in industrial and civil sectors thanks to its exceptional mechanical characteristics, it shows notable weakness due to its natural exposure tooxygen and to thehumidityà, which makes it vulnerable to an inevitable degrading phenomenon: corrosion. To protect metal structures from this process, a specific one is widely used surface ...
Image generated with AI for illustrative purposes only. The Trump administration he asked to the European Union and, in particular to Germany and France, of unlock from the stocks strategies of diesel to contain the global price of fuel. Alternatively, according to sources cited by Reuters, the US would apply a ban on the export of diesel fuel lasting 90 ...