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Salary transparency, decree in the Official Journal: what changes from 7 June 2026, from job advertisements to sanctions

From 7 June 20026 they enter the new rules come into force on salary transparency, which will apply to all public and private employers. On April 30, 2026 the Council of Ministers had definitively approved the legislative decree (Legislative Decree no. 96/2026) which transposes the European Directive 2023/970 on salary transparency. The declared objective is only one: to reduce the ...

Ibizan snakes swimming in the sea: the horseshoe snake threatens the Pitiusa lizards

Ibizan snakes swimming in the sea: the horseshoe snake threatens the Pitiusa lizards

Horseshoe snake (Hemorrhois hippocrepis) swim in the waters of Ibiza. Credit: Casbas et al., 2026, “Swimming Snakes Wipe out Endemic Lizards from Mediterranean Islets.” Ecology. On the coasts of IbizaThe horseshoe snake (Hemorrhois hippocrepis) – a land snake accidentally introduced to the island at the beginning of the 2000s – has started swimming in the open sea to colonize the ...

Why stainless steel cutlery rusts in the dishwasher: the effect of salt residues and heat

Why stainless steel cutlery rusts in the dishwasher: the effect of salt residues and heat

Just open the dishwasher and find a stained knife rust to discover that even thestainless steel It has its weaknesses. Although this material is designed to resist corrosion, high temperatures, alkaline detergents and salt residues favor chemical reactions which, over time, can affect the stainless steel in various points causing the formation of localized corrosion called, as explained by a ...

Why we can't throw things away: from normal attachment to studies on dysposophobia

Why we can’t throw things away: from normal attachment to studies on dysposophobia

The sensation of physical resistance, almost visceral, that we feel when we have to get rid of something is not an anomaly. It’s a deeply human dynamic that we share with our ancestors, with children, and even with some primate species. From birth we learn to distinguish what is “ours” from what is not. Research on children shows that at ...

“Strong” geomagnetic storm G3 could hit the Earth: aurora borealis possible at mid-latitudes

“Strong” geomagnetic storm G3 could hit the Earth: aurora borealis possible at mid-latitudes

Image created with AI for illustrative purposes only. A category G3 geomagnetic stormclassified as “strong” (on a scale ranging from G1 to G5) could affect the Earth between today, June 4, and tomorrow, June 5, 2026. This is confirmed by NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) based on Three coronal mass ejections (CME, Coronal Mass Ejection) ...

What does Ikigai mean and how do you find your "reason for living" according to the Japanese method

What does Ikigai mean and how do you find your “reason for living” according to the Japanese method

There is a question that crosses cultures and centuries without ever losing urgency and without finding a single answer: What makes a life “worth living”? And how do you achieve happiness? In this scenario, some notions coming from other cultural traditions and distant philosophies become new and disruptive points of reference, such as the Japanese method of the ikigai (literally ...

Why more and more users are using DuckDuckGo instead of Google and what the differences are

Why more and more users are using DuckDuckGo instead of Google and what the differences are

The growth of the search engine born in 2008 DuckDuckGo that we have witnessed recently is a symptom of a significant change in the way in which some users perceive the ongoing evolution of search engines. At the center of the debate is not so much the overall quality of the results, but the increasingly invasive role of artificial intelligence ...

Why Google wants to free 64 million mosquitoes: the plan against disease-carrying species

Why Google wants to free 64 million mosquitoes: the plan against disease-carrying species

The Culex quinquefasciatus mosquito. Credit: PICRYL There is no animal in the world more lethal than mosquitoes (the Anopheles more than other species), which secured the Guinness World Record award in 2017 with the words “Deadliest animal”, causing the death of approximately 725,000 to 1 million people each year. The diseases they bring with them (from dengue to yellow fever, ...

How pasta is made: the phases of the industrial process from semolina to packaging

How pasta is made: the phases of the industrial process from semolina to packaging

Water and flour, right? It seems like the simplest thing in the world, yet making pasta is a process in which engineering and biochemistry are intertwined in a surprising way. We stayed in the Garofalo pasta factory of Gragnano to show you every stage of industrial production: from the dough to the packaging. But let’s start from the beginning: the ...