Ecology

The complete Eduscopio 2025 ranking: here are the best high schools in Italy

The complete Eduscopio 2025 ranking: here are the best high schools in Italy

On Wednesday 3 December 2025, the Eduscopio ranking, curated by the Agnelli Foundation working group, published the ranking of the best high schools of Italy. The ranking, now in its twelfth edition, reports updated data regarding secondary schools (scientific, classical, human sciences, linguistic, artistic high schools and technical, economic and technological institutes), evaluating which institutions best prepare young people for ...

The map of submarine cables in Italy: where they are located and why they are important

The map of submarine cables in Italy: where they are located and why they are important

The theme of submarine cables returned to prominence after the island of Lampedusa it remained without internet or telephone connection, with a blackout that began on November 24th and ended only yesterday, December 2nd. The cause is attributable to the damage to a submarine telecommunications cable between Licata, Linosa and Lampedusa which, according to the manager FiberCop, was caused by ...

Earthquake in Messina of magnitude 3.6, shock also felt in Reggio Calabria

Earthquake in Messina of magnitude 3.6, shock also felt in Reggio Calabria

Earthquake in Messina of magnitude 3.6. A strong shock of earthquake Of magnitude 3.6 hit the province of Messina at 11.16pm yesterday, December 2nd. According to what was recorded by INGV, the epicenter was located at Italy7 km north of Messina, while the hypocenter was detected in 49 km deep. The shock was distinctly felt throughout the province and as ...

India wants to force the pre-installation of a government app on all smartphones: because it is controversial

India wants to force the pre-installation of a government app on all smartphones: because it is controversial

The Indian Ministry of Telecommunications It’s making a lot of headlines right now due to a directive that has alarmed security experts and digital rights activists around the world. At the center of the matter is the order sent to the main mobile device manufacturers, including giants such as Apple, Samsung, Xiaomi, Oppo And Livewhich imposed therequirement to pre-install government ...

Italians use social media less and less, X collapses and TikTok resists: what else will change with AI

Italians use social media less and less, X collapses and TikTok resists: what else will change with AI

The Italian social media market is going through a saturation phase and, for the first time, we are also witnessing one overall contraction in the use of some platformshighlighted by the data of Audicom-Audiweb analyzed by the expert Vincenzo Cosenzawho spoke about it atHANDLE. According to Cosenza «there is an unprecedented contraction in the use of some social networks that ...

What does “Rage Bait” ​​mean, the word of the year 2025 according to the Oxford dictionary

What does “Rage Bait” ​​mean, the word of the year 2025 according to the Oxford dictionary

If in mid-November the Cambridge Dictionary had chosen “parasocial” as word of the year 2025the Oxford English Dictionary relaunches and chooses “rage bait” (“anger bait”), the use of which has tripled in the last twelve months. Taking the exact definition of the well-known British dictionary, the term is used for online content that is created specifically to cause anger or ...

Campi Flegrei, bradyseism continues at 25mm/month and 137 earthquakes: data from the latest INGV bulletin

Campi Flegrei, bradyseism continues at 25mm/month and 137 earthquakes: data from the latest INGV bulletin

The INGV weekly bulletin on the Campi Flegrei. To the Phlegraean Fields The rise of the ground continues, while seismicity increases slightly. According to the latest weekly bulletin of the Vesuvian Observatory (INGV), between 24 and 30 November 2025, 137 earthquakes, of maximum magnitude 3.3 recorded last November 26th. This is a slight increase compared to 110 events of the ...

The fungus that "feeds" on Chernobyl radiation: a mysterious phenomenon that is also of interest to NASA

The fungus that “feeds” on Chernobyl radiation: a mysterious phenomenon that is also of interest to NASA

In the heart of Chernobyl Exclusion Zoneinside the infamous Reactor 4, protagonist of the 1986 nuclear disaster, in the 1990s, a black mushroom (Cladosporium sphaerospermum) capable not only of surviving at very high levels of ionizing radiationbut even to proliferate precisely thanks to them thanks to a pigment that we human beings also have (la melanin) thanks to an interesting ...