Ecology

Every year Italians travel on average 10,231 km by car

Every year Italians travel on average 10,231 km by car

The car is the preferred means of transport for Italians, used for almost two thirds of our trips (64.7%). According to the latest ISTAT data, in 2021 the 41.9 million vehicles in Italy traveled a total of approximately 420 billion kilometers. The average distance for a private car is around 10,231 km per yearbut this figure varies based on some ...

What is the difference between mind and brain and what is the relationship between the two: scientific theories

What is the difference between mind and brain and what is the relationship between the two: scientific theories

Mind-brain dualism has very ancient and controversial origins: today there is agreement in representing, at least in conceptual terms, the mind as the set of psychic and cognitive functions (such as thinking, remembering, perceiving…) and the brain as the biological organ that makes these processes possible through neuronal activity. Some philosophers of the past thought that the seat of the ...

Israel and Hamas, ceasefire agreement: what the peace plan provides and possible future scenarios

Israel and Hamas, ceasefire agreement: what the peace plan provides and possible future scenarios

Celebrations in Gaza for the peace agreement reached between Israel and Hamas. Two years after the attacks of October 7, 2023in which 1200 Israeli civilians were killed, today 9 October 2025 an agreement was signed ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas and the acceptance of one first phase of the peace agreement. The negotiations took place in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt, ...

Gmail Won't Have AI Automatically Read Emails From October 10th: How to Turn Off Intelligent Features

Gmail Won’t Have AI Automatically Read Emails From October 10th: How to Turn Off Intelligent Features

An alleged piece of news has circulated in recent days regarding the introduction starting from October 10th by Google of a new feature on Gmail, called AI Enhanced Classification and Reviewwhich would have allowed Gemini-based artificial intelligence to automatically analyze the contents of our emails without explicit user permission. Naturally the news has caused some concern regarding the violation of ...

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Here are the images of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in its close passage to Mars

Comet 3I/ATLAS observed by ExoMars. Credits: ESA/TGO/CaSSIS, CC BY–SA 3.0 IGO. The European Space Agency (ESA) has released the first awaited images of the close passage of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS to the planet Marsalone 30 million km away. ESA attempted to image the comet using all the instruments on board the ExoMars and MarsExpress probes, normally used to study ...

Antarctica, the mystery of the hole that opens and closes in the ice has been solved: the causes of the chasm have been discovered

Antarctica, the mystery of the hole that opens and closes in the ice has been solved: the causes of the chasm have been discovered

Antarctic sea ice hole in 2017. Credit: NASA In Antarcticain the Weddell Sea, for decades a huge “hole” in the sea icemore or less the size of Switzerland, opened several times and then closed again without apparent regularity, in the presence of temperatures well below zero. Its origin, after remaining unknown for a long time, has finally been clarified by ...

Instant bank transfers, what changes from October 9th: pros and cons of the new rules

Instant bank transfers, what changes from October 9th: pros and cons of the new rules

THE instant transfersbecome a right for all European account holders from October 9, 2025. In fact, starting from this date banks and post offices will be obliged to offer the service of immediate money transfer — available 24 hours a day, every day of the year — and to guarantee a automatic check between the name of the beneficiary and ...

The Vajont disaster 62 years later: what led to the tragedy on the night of 6 October 1963

The Vajont disaster 62 years later: what led to the tragedy on the night of 6 October 1963

The evening of October 9, 1963over 260 million cubic meters of rock detached from Monte Toc, on the border between Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Veneto, hitting the artificial basin produced with the waters of the Vajont torrent from what was there at the time largest dam in the worldcausing a tsunami of 50 million cubic meters of water which went over ...