It is not an aging Italy that is growing across the border, but a young Italy that is leaving. With an average age under 33, expatriates (156 thousand, +36.5% on 2023) push the number of Italian residents abroad to 6 million and 342 thousand residents, an all-time high. The effect of also contributes to inflating the figures sanctions for failure ...
If you think of an alpine skiing race, the speed and noise of the edges on the snow immediately come to mind. Behind what you see on the track, however, lies an often overlooked element: protective device technology. In recent years, skiers’ equipment has transformed into an increasingly sophisticated system: airbags capable of inflating in a few milliseconds, helmets designed ...
Credit: Ookla/Downdetector. There photograph of the major IT downturns of 2025 returns a clear fact: our digital daily life is based on infrastructures that are most often efficient, but also on delicate balances. When these balances are broken, the effects become immediately visible on a global scale. Over the course of the year, we have seen disruptions that have not ...
Italy has a long tradition miningwith the first testimonies dating back to periods prior toEmpire Roman. According to the current regulatory framework, extractive activities on Italian territory are divided into two main categories: quarrying activities And mining activities. In common perception the difference between the two is often associated with the way they appear, the quarries are visible on the ...
Italy has a long tradition miningwith the first testimonies dating back to periods prior toEmpire Roman. According to the current regulatory framework, extractive activities on Italian territory are divided into two main categories: quarrying activities And mining activities. In common perception the difference between the two is often associated with the way they appear, the quarries are visible on the ...
Sumo match; credit: Cesar I. Martins from Jundiai, Brazil, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Sumo (相撲) – Japanese term which literally means “to tug at each other” – is a form of hand-to-hand combat: the purpose of rikishithe fighters, is to knock down the opponent or make him leave the combat zone, said dohyo. Their high weight is achieved ...
Sofonisba Anguissola, Self-portrait with easel, 1556, Museum Castle in Łańcut; via Wikimedia Commons Sofonisba Anguissola, she was a Renaissance “lady painter”, one of the few artists of the time to have achieved international fame and recognition. His fame has come down to us thanks to the quotes of the great art historian Giorgio Vasari in his “Lives”, but also in ...
It is not at all obvious that the New Year’sthat is, the first day of the year, fall on January 1st: after all, it’s a totally arbitrary choice. And in fact it has not always been like this, and in many parts of the world it is not like this even today. Who decided this, and how? The story begins ...
When talking about military engineering, especially in reference to that of the past, it is impossible not to mention the fortification works designed by Antonio da Sangallo the Elder and his nephew Antonio da Sangallo the Younger. With their works, the two architects contributed decisively to marking the transition from defensive military engineering of the medieval tradition to modern fortification, ...
“Ever dream this man?“, did you dream of this man? This phrase at the turn of the 2010s began to become a sort of catchphrase online, thanks also to the association with the strange identikit of a balding man with thick eyebrows. Looking at him, numerous users claimed to have actually dreamed of him at least once in their life… ...