Have you ever wondered what happens when we bring the card closer to the POS? Almost certainly yes, and you may also have wondered if it is really safe and why sometimes we are asked for the PIN and other times not. In this video we explain how contactless payments workor those which – as the word itself tells us ...
THE’European Union confirmed it stop imports of Russian gas starting from 2027: it is a historical agreement for our continent, which still depends on Russia on an energy level. The decision, in reality, does not come as a surprise: already at the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, European imports of Russian gas had reduced drastically. According to ...
Buy i flights today for the Christmas period costs consumers up to 900% more than usual. This is what Codacons communicated in recent days in a press release. The association also announces that it has submitted a report to the Antitrust, the Ministry of Transport and Enac regarding the excessive and worrying increase in prices, which sees figures approaching 200 ...
The sampling of marine sediments during the Japanese expeditions. Credit: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) About 9,000 years agowhen global temperatures increased with the end of the Last Ice Age, the ice ofEast Antarctica they suffered one particularly rapid fusion: the cause of this amplification was the effect of melt water on ocean circulation. The researchers ...
Credit: Google. Analyzing the data returned by the campaign “A year of research”the picture that emerges from searches made on Google in 2025 by Italians it is that of a country deeply connected to the global reality but, at the same time, desperately seeking stability in traditions and in “knowing how to do things”, especially in the kitchen. Many users ...
Image generated with AI. Not a day goes by without the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS providing a new surprise. As the closest to Earth on December 19thEarth’s largest telescopes are peering tirelessly at this rare visitor, trying to gather as much data as possible before it vanishes forever into cold interstellar space. The latest discoveries in chronological order suggest that 3I/ATLAS ...
Earthquake in China measuring 6.0. A strong shock of earthquake Of magnitude 6.0 hit China at 1.44pm (local time, 8.44am in Italy) today, December 4th. According to what was recorded by INGV, the epicenter was located in the Xinjiang region, in the county of Akqi, about 138 km from the city of Tumxukwhich has a population of 135,000 inhabitants. The ...
Every year, when the time comes to organize the trip home for the holidays, many of us find ourselves in front of the PC screen consulting ticket prices and choosing whether to take the train or plane. Those who have already done so will have noticed that, this year too, generally, Train tickets cost much more than plane ticketsand Italy ...
The domestic cat (Felis catus) would only arrive in Europe About 2000 years agonot in the Neolithic as had been hypothesized for years. This is the conclusion reached by a new study published in Science in which a team of researchers analyzed 87 ancient and modern genomes. Genetic reconstruction has also found that their origin must be sought in the ...
Many times we find ourselves wondering “But was it that cold last year?” or “But was it this hot in other years?”. These are questions that can be answered by searching through the meteorological archives, and that’s what we did: we bring you the temperatures of December 4th scheduled for Milan, Rome, Naples And Palermocompared with those of the same ...