While stroking newborns’ heads, you may have noticed some soft areaswhich sometimes seem to pulsate. They are the fountainsone of the most elegant solutions that evolution has ever devised for dealing with childbirth and allowing the brain to continue to grow once outside the womb. In fact, newborns are born with their skull bones still not completely mergedbut held together ...
TO Porto Sant’Elpidioin the province of Fermo (Marche) this morning at dawn, a residential building collapsed following an explosion. The requests for help on 112, sent from nearby streets, arrived shortly after 5am. For the moment the toll is one victim, a 47-year-old man, three injured and a woman missing. The causes of the explosion in via Trentino still remain ...
Image generated with AI for illustrative purposes only. In the last few months dozens of WhatsApp accounts have been compromised in Italy through an insidious and disturbing technique, documented by Antonio De BortoliIT technician specialized in computer forensics, whose analyzes complement those of the team Forensic and the expert Paolo Da Checcoconverging on a worrying picture. A definite attack “zero ...
Donald Trump and Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei in a tug of war. Image for example purposes created with AI. Continuously announced and then denied, the final agreement between Iran and the United States still looks like a diplomatic mirage. From the wall to wall on nuclear power to Israeli operations in Lebanon, up to the energy blackmail on the Strait of ...
There are emotions that science can measure and others that can only be felt; some have a precise name, others remain untranslatable, suspended between language and culture. Some words, such as saudade, are now part of psychological literature; others are neologisms which, without claiming to become the subject of science, can boast the fact of having been proven at least ...
The International Space Station. Credit: NASA There NASA he ordered four astronauts aboard the International Space Station to remain sheltered in the Crew Dragon spacecraft and prepare for a possible evacuation, because of one air leak worsened in Russian form Zvezda: at the moment, the alarm went away and the crew returned inside the station. The astronauts had been ordered ...
From 7 June 20026 they enter the new rules come into force on salary transparency, which will apply to all public and private employers. On April 30, 2026 the Council of Ministers had definitively approved the legislative decree (Legislative Decree no. 96/2026) which transposes the European Directive 2023/970 on salary transparency. The declared objective is only one: to reduce the ...
Horseshoe snake (Hemorrhois hippocrepis) swim in the waters of Ibiza. Credit: Casbas et al., 2026, “Swimming Snakes Wipe out Endemic Lizards from Mediterranean Islets.” Ecology. On the coasts of IbizaThe horseshoe snake (Hemorrhois hippocrepis) – a land snake accidentally introduced to the island at the beginning of the 2000s – has started swimming in the open sea to colonize the ...
Just open the dishwasher and find a stained knife rust to discover that even thestainless steel It has its weaknesses. Although this material is designed to resist corrosion, high temperatures, alkaline detergents and salt residues favor chemical reactions which, over time, can affect the stainless steel in various points causing the formation of localized corrosion called, as explained by a ...
The sensation of physical resistance, almost visceral, that we feel when we have to get rid of something is not an anomaly. It’s a deeply human dynamic that we share with our ancestors, with children, and even with some primate species. From birth we learn to distinguish what is “ours” from what is not. Research on children shows that at ...