The latest available Istat data shows that, in 2023, 334 murders 117 were women and 217 were men, with a homicide rate of 0.57% per 100,000 inhabitants. Seeing these data, you might think: so why are we talking more and more often about feminicides and so little about male murders? Well, they are the motives to get people talking above ...
The lifesaver: we all have it at home, but do we really know what it protects us from and how it works? In reality its technical name is differential switchand he is not the only one to defend us from the dangers of electricity. As we see in this video, in fact, they exist several protection switcheseach designed to stop ...
In 2024 almost the 7% of newborns in Italy they have acquired the double surname from their parents, a figure that has almost tripled since 2020. The latest report tells us so Istat on Birth rate and fertility of the resident population – year 2024, where it is reported that the share of births with a double surname has reached ...
The eruption of the Hayli Gubbi volcano in Ethiopia. Credit: Space Tracker, via The volcano Hayli Gubbilocated in the Afar region of northeastern Ethiopia, erupted for the first time after a period of inactivity almost 12,000 years. The eruptive episode, which began yesterday 23 November, lasted several hours and produced a column of smoke which reached i 14/15 km in ...
Have you ever imagined getting lost among the streets ofancient Rome? Well, now you can do it thanks to Itiner-ea sort of “Google Maps of ancient Rome” launched by a group of historians, cartographers, archaeologists and computer scientists who reconstruct 300,000 kilometers of roads of the Roman Empire, transforming your browser into a historical atlas. Just like the famous navigation ...
The system implemented byAGCOM (Communications Regulatory Authority) is producing concrete effects: almost 10 million spam and fraudulent calls are intercepted and rejected every day which simulate Italian mobile numbers despite coming from abroad. This result is the result of the technical adaptation of Italian telephone operators to second AGCOM antispoofing filterwhich went into effect on November 19, designed to recognize ...
In the United Kingdom, Spain and France they can already be found on the streets, but in Italy they have not yet arrived: we are talking about road signs with the green border and the white background, which in the center indicate a precise speed just like in the classic speed limit signs which however have a red border. But ...
There dot-com bubblewhich occurred between 1995 and the 2000represents one of the most emblematic phenomena in the history of modern financial markets and the Internet revolution. Adding “.com” to a company’s name in those days could turn it into a rising stock market star, even if it didn’t have a solid business model or tangible profits. That’s how the Nasdaqtechnologically ...
What remains of the C–117 abandoned on Solheimasandur beach, Iceland. Photo credits: Blair Fraser It was November 24, 1973 when a transport plane Douglas C-117D of the US Navy crashed on the black volcanic beach of Solheimasanduralong the southern coast of Iceland, as it flew over the glacier Vatnajökull to return to the base of Keflavik . Incredibly, all five ...
The eruption of the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii. Credit: USGS There was a new eruption of the volcano Kilauea in Hawaiia few days after the last episode. As reported by the USGS (US Geological Survey), the eruptive activity began around 8.33pm (Italian time, 09:33 local time) yesterday Sunday 23 November, and was characterized by overflows lava periodicals – lasting 5/15 ...