Almost 80% of world trade travel by sea. Not by ideological choice, but purely economy: a ship carries in a single voyage an amount of goods that would require thousands of trucks or planes to transport by land or air. The consequence is that geography still decides the flows, with global trade being forced to pass through a few maritime ...
Purely illustrative image created with AI. Everything is fine immersion underwater it forces our body to operate in physical conditions far from those for which it evolved, and the deeper we go, the more the behavior of the gases distances itself from what we are used to on the surface. The reason is that the more we dive the more ...
Image created with AI In April 2026, Istat reported a rise in inflation in Italy, with an increase of 2.7% on an annual basis and an increase in1.1% on a monthly basis, with prices rising not only for energy, but also for basic necessities: such high trend increases have not been recorded since the end of 2023, while the monthly ...
An Ebola epidemic is underway in the Democratic Republic of Congo, caused specifically by the species Bundibugyo (BDBV, Orthoebolavirus bundibugyoense), one of the four types of Ebola so far identified as pathogenic for humans. On 16 May 2026, the Director General of the WHO, based on the provisions of the International Health Regulations, declared the situation a public health emergency ...
Photo of Halley’s comet obtained by the Yerkes Observatory during the flyby in the spring of 1910. Credits: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The passage of Halley’s comet of 1910 it was one of the most astronomical events spectacular and discussed of the first part of the twentieth century. The comet in fact passed into the sun 0.15 astronomical units from ...
Domestic wind power refers to wind turbines under 20 kW designed to transform wind energy into clean energy for use in individual homes, farms and small communities. These turbines are not yet as widespread as photovoltaics, but they are experiencing a growth phase. The updated data of GSE, Terna, RSE, IEA And IRENA show that, thanks to more compact vertical ...
Photo credit: from “The Basketball Dream – Marco Belinelli” While i 2026 NBA Playoffs they come to life and keep millions of fans glued to the screen even in Italy, we met someone who experienced those Playoffs as a protagonist and a champion. Marco Belinellithe only Italian to have ever lifted the Larry O’Brien trophy, has hung up his boots ...
THE’laser hair removal exploits a principle of selective photothermolysis, a monochromatic light beam it selectively affects the melanin contained in the hair, heats it in a few milliseconds and damages the germinal matrix, i.e. the “factory” of cells found in the bulb and which allows the hair to regrow. Unlike the razor, which only cuts the shaft, and waxing, which ...
Jean–Louis Trintignant and Vittorio Gassman in a scene from “Il sorpasso” by Dino Risi, considered a portrait of Italy in the years of the economic boom. With the expression “economic boom”, often combined with post-war economic miraclewe mean a season of unprecedented growth in Italian history, particularly concentrated among 1958 and 1963. Italy changed profoundly in the space of a ...
Image generated with AI. The most iconic feature of the planet Saturn, its ring systemmay have formed from destruction of one of its natural satellitesrenamed by astronomers with the name of Chrysalis. Although this hypothesis has been circulating since 2022, what shed new light on the genesis of the iconic rings was a recent article published by researchers from the ...