Ecology

Car tax on the IO app: how to check the deadline and pay everything from your smartphone

Car tax on the IO app: how to check the deadline and pay everything from your smartphone

Image created with AI. THE’IO appthe official platform of the Italian Public Administration, available free of charge for Android and iOS, allows you to receive reminders about the expiration of your car tax and pay it directly from your smartphone. This system exploits PagoPAthe digital payment platform for the PA, to allow quick transactions with card or current account. The ...

Canceled flights and expensive fuel, the new EU Commission guidelines on ticket refunds

Canceled flights and expensive fuel, the new EU Commission guidelines on ticket refunds

There European Commission he published new guidelines for the transport sector, hit by the crisis in the Middle East: the closure of Strait of Hormuz in fact, it is also having direct repercussions on the airline sector and, as the summer season approaches, consumers’ concerns about possible cancellations of flights. However, after some airlines asked their passengers to supplement the ...

An artificial island perhaps older than Stonehenge discovered in Scotland: it is a 5000-year-old crannog

An artificial island perhaps older than Stonehenge discovered in Scotland: it is a 5000-year-old crannog

Overview of Loch Bhorgastail, with the crannog. Credit: Blankshein et al. In the Loch Bhorgastailon the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, in Scotlandthere is a small island that at first glance seems like a natural accumulation of stones. It is instead a so-called “crannog“, aartificial island built by man beyond 5,000 years agoIn the Neolithic. The archaeologists ofUniversity ...

All the gold in the world: how much we have mined and where it is today

All the gold in the world: how much we have mined and where it is today

About 219,890 tons of gold were extracted throughout the entire history of humanitystarting from beyond 6000 years ago until today. Of these, beyond the80% it has been undermined over the last century. If you stacked every single coin, jewel, ingot or any other form of gold, you would get a cube with a side of approximately 22 meters. Gold has ...

The geometric magic of the Noperthedron: why this figure cannot pass through

The geometric magic of the Noperthedron: why this figure cannot pass through

There is a new geometric figure, the Noperthedron, a convex polyhedron that defies the laws of geometry because it cannot pass inside itself. In mathematics, it is said that the Nopethedron has disproved the Rupert’s propertywhich we will see shortly. But what does it mean that it can’t pass through? Let’s try to understand it with an example. Let’s imagine ...

When nodding means “no”: why do gestures sometimes deceive us?

When nodding means “no”: why do gestures sometimes deceive us?

There human communication it is a complex interweaving between words and the gestures of body. Much of what we transmit, in fact, does not pass through the voice, but through postures, head movementsfrom the hands and of body entire. However, what it may seem spontaneous and universal in a culture it can be interpreted completely different in another. In general, ...