2026 opens with a new series of price increases which will weigh significantly on the pockets of Italians: according to the survey by Federconsumatori, the increase in average annual spending will be 672 euros per family. Despite the drop in electricity and gas tariffs (-12.7%), the high prices will hit key sectors: from fuel, with diesel undergoing the realignment of ...
The United States may own one of the largest, if not the largest, lithium deposit to the world: this is the McDermitt caldera, whose estimated quantity of lithium ranges from 10 million tons (comparable to the largest deposit currently known, the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia) up to more speculative estimates that even hypothesize 20-40 million tons. If these estimates ...
Map of international dialing codes. Credit: Credit: Maximilian Dörrbecker, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. The international telephone prefix it is a code that must be added before a national telephone number to be able to make calls abroad: every country has one, for example Italian mobile numbers have the prefix +39 (or 0039), those of the USA (and Canada) ...
What really happens when an organ leaves a donor’s body to save another? It’s a race against time involving surgery, biology and complex logistics. In this in-depth study we take you “behind the scenes” of the operating room to understand how doctors challenge cell death through thermal shock and the perfusionfundamental techniques to keep the heart, liver and kidneys alive ...
According to the Finance Department of the Treasury Ministry and the latest investigation by Il Sole 24 Ore the categories that escape the most they are restaurateurs, hoteliers and bakers. Let’s see the complete updated ranking. On the contrary, pharmacies and doctors’ offices are among the categories that evade the least. According to the report, the worst affected would be ...
Novak Djokovic in the Regenesis capsule in Qatar. Credit: Instagram Novak Djokovic is a living example of how taking care of the body is one of the most important aspects for the longevity of an athlete’s career: the Serbian tennis player is approaching 39 years old, but is still No. 4 in the world and confirms himself to date as ...
The A23a iceberg in late December 2025. Credit: NASA The A23a iceberg, one of the largest and longest-lived ever observed in the world, melting it became blue and after 40 years of its formation it is on the verge of disintegrate completely. After breaking away from Antarctica in 1986, it ran aground for a long time and several times on ...
Different European airports they remained closed temporarily due towave of cold and frost which affected parts of central and eastern Europe: among these also the airport of Viennaone of the busiest on the continent, as well as those of Budapest (Hungary), Bratislava (Slovakia) and some airports in France and the United Kingdom. But why can’t planes fly in ice? As ...
Although the 2012 reform had laid the foundations for a massive technological transition within Italian school classrooms (at least on paper), the data emerging from the recent fact-finding survey ofAGCM (Competition and Market Guarantor Authority) photograph a very different and decidedly static reality. Although on paper over 95% of Italian classes have adopted mixed format textbooks, i.e. which provide for ...
Small round holes that hide tunnels under the surface: wormholes, as well as ruining the appearance of the wood, they can hide structural damage not recently. These holes are produced by woodworms, small ones xylophagous beetles (wood eaters) who have found an invaluable source of nutrition in our domestic furniture and in the beams of ancient houses. Since most of ...