The June 4, 1903in the theater of Royal Institution in London, an event took place that we now recognize as the first documented hacker attack in history, carried out by Nevil Maskelyne to the detriment of the wireless telegraph of Guglielmo Marconi. The Italian inventor was about to demonstrate his system’s ability to transmit messages securely over long distances. Marconi ...
Due to its particular evolution, Homo sapiensunlike other hominid species, has lost almost all of its body hair. Consequently, for human beings, since Prehistory, it has been essential cover yourself to protect yourself from Freddofrom rain and sun. It is not known when exactly the first garments were made, but the oldest archaeological finds associated with linen clothing that have ...
On days traditionally associated withIndian summerthis year they are actually in a large part of Italy temperatures dropped with the arrival of the first winter cold, a drop in temperature that will remain on the Peninsula until Friday 15 November. The reason is the descent of two “cold drops” from high latitudes, that is, two closed pockets of cold area ...
THE’Italy is experiencing a evident demographic decline: as Istat reports, the births I am less and less every year that passes (in 2023 they dropped to 379 thousand) and on 1 January 2024 it is estimated that the population of our country was 58 million 990 thousand people. In this regard, the different Italian regions experience very different trends: in ...
Credits: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM, CC BY–SA 2.0 Landing on a comet may seem like a feat from science fiction books, but in reality this is what happened exactly 10 years ago, the November 12, 2014when at 17:05 UTC the Philae lander of the probe Rosette landed on the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. These solitary travelers who ply the expanses of the cosmos, crossing the ...
THE’Italy is experiencing a evident demographic decline: as Istat reports, the births I am less and less every year that passes (in 2023 they dropped to 379 thousand) and on 1 January 2024 it is estimated that the population of our country was 58 million 990 thousand people. In this regard, the different Italian regions experience very different trends: in ...
The “Esc” key (short for “escape“, that is to say “escape”) is without a doubt one of the most long-lived and iconic keys on our computer keyboards. Always located in the upper left corner, its story begins in 60s thanks to the inventiveness of Bob Bemera programmer working for IBM, was looking for a solution that would break down communication ...
Regardless of seasonsome plants always have a beautiful canopy of green leaves: they are the plant evergreen. Even if it seems like they never lose them, in reality, evergreens also lose their leaves, but they do it gradually and not every year, so as to optimize available resources. In fact, all evergreens, from conifers to tropical plants passing through the ...
The city with multiple buildings clad in marble to the world it is not found in Italy as some might think, but in Asia: we are talking about Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan. To give you an idea, let’s talk about over 4.5 million m2 Of white Carrara marble. This is a gigantic sum, so much so that the city ...
The paper version of the so-called white recipe – the prescription for class C drugs, i.e. those which are paid for by citizens, as they are not granted by NHS (National Health Service) – will soon become a thing of the past. Starting from 2025the Italian Government plans to implement theitem no. 54 of the 2025 Budget Lawthus completing the ...