In 1977 the skyscraper Citicorp Center – one of the most innovative engineering feats of the 1970s – fit into the already dense Manhattan skyline. However, one year after the inauguration, an alarming fact emerged: a sufficiently intense storm could have caused New York’s iconic skyscraper to collapse, putting thousands of people at risk. This is where the story of ...
Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan president ousted from power by the United States attack on January 3, 2026, is born in Caracas in 1962. Politically close to Bolivarian socialism Of Hugo Chavezbecame president of Venezuela in 2013. He held the office until 3 January 2026, always being re-elected in elections contested by his opponents and Western countries. Despite proposing to follow ...
The President Nicolás Maduro he was captured together with his wife by Delta Forcethe main one US Army special unit, following numerous air raids on the capital Caracas that hit the military base of Fuerte Tiuna and other military objectives. After the US attack the Venezuelan government declared it state of emergency. They had already been going strong for months ...
Concrete is absolute one of the most used materials in the world and, in fact, it is estimated that approximately 10000000000000000000000000000 are produced every year 4 billion tons. But which country produces the most of them today? The primacy – as also confirmed by the latest annual report drawn up byUnited States Geological Survey – is in the hands of ...
There Crans-Montana tragedywhich saw the death of over 40 people due to a fire in a restaurant in the Swiss town during the New Year celebrations, has reignited attention on the issue of fire safety. A commitment that not only includes knowing what to do in the event of a fire but which starts from the beginning prevention. The Fire ...
For Equitable and Sustainable Wellbeing (BES) we mean a broad vision of social progress that goes beyond mere economic growth, also including social and environmental dimensions. Istat measures it with a set of 12 large dimensions that include over 150 indicators that allow us to understand how Italy is really doinggoing beyond GDP numbers. A country can in fact grow ...
The explosions that occurred in Caracas on the night of January 3, 2026. photo credits: Mohamad Safa on During the early hours of the night of January 3, 2026 several explosions and fires hit the military areas of Caracas. The attack was claimed by American President Donald Trump on his X profile at 4.30 local time (10.30 am for Italy), ...
How many times, while making a request to the artificial intelligence, do we use “Please”? And how many more do we thank language learning models for their response? Our tendency to “humanize” AI has a price: reply “thank you” or “please” to ChatGPT, Gemini or other similar models has a significant energy impactboth in terms of electricity and water consumed ...
Never so close to the Sun, at least for this year: at 6.15pm Italians of January 3, 2026 the Earth will reach the perihelionthat is, the point of its orbit at the minimum distance from the Sun. We are talking about a distance of 147,099,894 kmi.e. 4.98 million km less than the maximum distance from the Sun, theaphelionwhich this year ...
Aaah… how nice, having guests at home and bringing out the most refined set we have, the porcelain one given to me by my great-aunt many years ago. We take the cups, the teaspoons but… everyone stop! Here comes a very old tea stain that makes us look bad. It’s the fault of the gods polyphenols: Stubborn molecules contained in ...