Atmospheric circulation. Credit: Severe Weather Europe With the recent drop in temperatures, even in Italy we have started talking about “polar vortex” and its weakening as possible cause of the harsh winter that awaits us. But what does all this mean? The polar vortex is a sort of permanent cyclone over the Earth’s polespowered by very low temperatures. When this ...
When winter arrives, the usual boxes full of citrus fruits. At first glance they all look the same: small, orange, fragrant. Then you open one, then another, and you realize that they change a lot. One is very sweet, another is more pungent, yet another smells of resin. But why are they so different if they look the same? In ...
A sophisticated new wave of scams is specifically targeting employees Public Administration Italian, taking advantage of the institutional reputation of the portal NoiPA. The mechanism underlying this digital offensive is subtle but technically well tested: the victim receives an apparently authentic communication via email which reports alleged registry anomalies and explicitly threatens the failure to credit increases to the pay ...
Today, Thursday 27 November 2025we celebrate the Thanksgiving Daya holiday that has been celebrated in America every year since 1621the year in which i Pilgrim Fathers they celebrated together with the tribe Wampanoag their brotherhood and the prosperity of the harvest obtained thanks to the collaboration of the Native Americans. But the date of this celebration changes every year, because ...
The Skyscraper Intempoin the city of Benidorm in Costa Blanca, holds the record of tallest residential building in Spain and, with his 192 meters high, one of the highest in Europe. The design of the structure is one of a kind thanks to two towers joined by a cone structure, reminiscent of a diamond and the letter “M“. A construction ...
Who among us, when we go to the bathroom, doesn’t take our phone with us? Let’s face it: practically everyone. It happens when we wait for the subway, when a friend is late at the bar. It happens in every single, tiny pause in our day. Our breaks turned into “phone breaks”. We often realize that by doing so we ...
The ESA Ministerial Council 2025 in Bremen. Credit: Philip We are at Bremenin Germany, where the Ministerial Council 2025 of the European Space Agency. Two days in which the top management of ESA, together with the ministers for space policies of the member countries – including Italy – are deciding the future of Europe in space in the next 15 ...
An image of the Antarctic Peninsula taken by the Sentinel–1D satellite. Credit: ESA We are at Ministerial Council 2025 of the European Space Agency, where the very first images of Sentinel-1Dthe new member of the European constellation Copernicus for terrestrial monitoring, launched on November 4th from French Guiana. The images – obtained in record time – show the Antarctic Peninsulathe ...
Have you ever wondered which Italian cities you can park in blue stripes is it more expensive? Although there is no official ranking in this regard, we observed the prices of the blue car parks in the 10 most populated cities in Italy (respectively: Rome, Milan, Naples, Turin, Palermo, Genoa, Bologna, Florence, Bari and Catania), and discovered which ones have ...
On the day dedicated to the elimination of violence against womenthe House voted unanimously to introduce the crime of femicide, the gender-motivated killing of a woman, as a specific crime, punishable by life imprisonment. The new article of the penal code creates a category of crime “based on the characteristics of the victim“, according to the explanatory report of the ...