In Italy, over one in three adults is unable to understand and analyze complex texts. This is one of the results of the new survey on adult skills carried out as part of the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) of the OECD, which measures the skills of adults between 16 and 65 years in 31 countries ...
The ISBN code – International Standard Book Number – it’s a 13 digit number standardized internationally that identifies one specific book, paper or digital: even an ebook publication has a different code than the same paper publication, since they are different book types. ISBNs are sold to publishing houses by designated bodies, in Italy specifically by the Italian Publishers Association. ...
The passage of Commodus. Credit: Colosseum Archaeological Park. The direction of Colosseum Archaeological Park announced that, starting from the end of October, the so-called “Commodus Passage”a sort of corridor in the underground of the large amphitheater which has not been visited until now. The restoration and accessibility works, which lasted from October 2024 to September 2025, were conducted by Dr. ...
A satellite image of Hurricane Melissa. Credit: NOAA Hurricane Melissa of category 5 hit the coast of Jamaica near New Hope with sustained winds up to 295 km/has reported by National Hurricane Center. The landfall by Melissa is probably the most violent recorded in the Atlantic Oceanleaving 240,000 people without electricity and threatening around one and a half million people ...
THE’hydroelectric energy it is one of the oldest and cleanest forms of electricity production: it exploits the force of water to generate renewable, constant and emission-free energy. But how does a hydroelectric plant really work? To find out and understand step by step how water becomes electricity, we entered inside a real mini hydroelectric power plant in Piedmont, along the ...
Increase in both seismicity that of soil lifting at Campi Flegrei in the last week of monitoring (20-26 October 2025). The INGV Vesuvian Observatory reports in its latest bulletin 178 earthquakes (maximum magnitude 2.8), up compared to 135 the previous week, and a bradyseism speed that rises to a preliminary value of approximately 20 ± 5 mm/month (from 15 ± ...
Credits: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The world of witches it is made up not only of potions and spells, but also of silent black, winged or furry companions: i families. But what does this evocative word really mean and why has it always been associated with witches? The term derives from the Latin familiaris ...
Abraham Hondius’ 1677 painting of the frozen Thames. Credit: Museum of London To cause the Little Ice Agethe period of intense cold that mainly affected Europe from the 16th to the 19th century approximatelythey would have been two almost simultaneous volcanic eruptions: that of Kuwae volcano in Vanuatuin Oceania, and of another volcano in the southern hemisphere which has yet ...
The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS imaged by the Gemini South telescope in Chile. Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Shadow the Scientist, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons For the first time, NASA would have activated a planetary defense protocol in response to the passage of an interstellar object in the Solar System, in this case the comet 3I/ATLAS: well, if you’ve read something ...
An image of Hurricane Melissa preparing to make landfall in Jamaica. Credit: NOAA THE’Hurricane Melissa is about to make landfall in Jamaica as a Category 5 hurricane, with winds expected up to 280 km/h and torrential rains with accumulations estimated between 380 and 762 mm. According to what was reported by National Hurricane Center, Melissa is currently moving in a ...