How many times, while making a request to the artificial intelligence, do we use “Please”? And how many more do we thank language learning models for their response? Our tendency to “humanize” AI has a price: reply “thank you” or “please” to ChatGPT, Gemini or other similar models has a significant energy impactboth in terms of electricity and water consumed ...
Never so close to the Sun, at least for this year: at 6.15pm Italians of January 3, 2026 the Earth will reach the perihelionthat is, the point of its orbit at the minimum distance from the Sun. We are talking about a distance of 147,099,894 kmi.e. 4.98 million km less than the maximum distance from the Sun, theaphelionwhich this year ...
Aaah… how nice, having guests at home and bringing out the most refined set we have, the porcelain one given to me by my great-aunt many years ago. We take the cups, the teaspoons but… everyone stop! Here comes a very old tea stain that makes us look bad. It’s the fault of the gods polyphenols: Stubborn molecules contained in ...
The Crans-Montana tragedy, during which they lost their lives at least 47 people remained trapped in a fire on New Year’s Eve, shone a spotlight on the importance of evacuation plans in case of fire: knowing immediately how to behave in front of flames can prove essential, allowing us to act as quickly as possible, especially in emergency situations where ...
Underwater canyons. Credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute On the seabed of Antarctica they are found well 332 canyons, deep up to 4000 m: to show its existence is one map recently published, the most detailed that has been created so far, with five times the number of canyons than previously identified. The map, together with the related catalogue, was drawn up ...
The SPID with PosteID becomes paid. Credit: Poste Italiane The SPID with Poste Italiane officially becomes paid: this is what the company announced to its users with an email, which confirms what had already been hypothesized last October. The annual fee will be 6 euroswhich must be paid within 30 days of the deadline under penalty of suspension of digital ...
An underestimated element in the scope of Crans-Montana tragedythe Swiss town where a restaurant caught fire on New Year’s Eve, killing 47 people and injuring 115, is the fact that the flames spread not on the ground, but on the ceiling. At first glance, it might seem that if the ceiling catches fire, people would be safer and have more ...
There Crans-Montana tragedyin Switzerland, is particularly affecting public opinion in light of an apparently very simple question: how can a small localized fire become so large and so quickly as to cause dozens of victims in just a few minutes? In a film that is making the rounds a lot at the moment, and which we attach to this article, ...
The lava flow in the Valle del Bove fueled by the effusive activity of Etna. Credit: Boris Behncke, via Etna gave birth to one new effusive activity inside the Valle del Bovewhich began around 4.30pm on 1 January 2026 at the north-western face (near the Monte Simone, at 2,100 meters altitude), which fed a lava flow that descended to 1,500 ...
I “New Year’s Eve bangs”, in addition to causing victims and injuries and scaring domestic animals, they pollute the environment: despite being a difficult tradition to eradicate, in fact, i firecrackers hey fireworks have a notable impact – even if only for a few hours – on air quality that we breathe and, in particular, on the concentration of fine ...