THE’Iceland will organize a referendum to decide whether apply for membership of the European Union: The decision was confirmed by the Icelandic Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttirwhich had included it in its political program for the 2024 elections. The government of the volcanic island, in reality, had already submitted an application for EU membership in 2009after the effects of the financial ...
Not all smokers consume the same amount of cigarettes. Some stop at a few a day, others smoke many more. Some of this difference may be written in DNA. In a study published yesterday on Nature CommunicationsDr. Rajagopale and colleagues performed genetic analysis of 37,897 smokers Mexico City Prospective Study and they identified a rare variant of the CHRNB3 gene ...
On the left the Carpathian Basin area, on the right an artistic reconstruction of the Gomolava event. Credit: Fibiger et al. In the heart of the Balkans, in the north of Serbiaan archaeological site is rewriting what we know about violence in the European prehistory. TO Gomolavain the Carpathian Basin, archaeologists have unearthed a large mass grave dating back to ...
In this riddle there are 16 matches willing to form five squaresas in the figure. Our goal is to get it exactly right six squares moving a single match. There are, however, two rules: each match must be part of at least one square. We cannot, therefore, simply eliminate a match or leave it isolated; every match must be entirely ...
THE’Crusca Academy is considered the highest reference body for the Italian language. Its noble intent is to remove all doubts about morphology, syntax, spelling, neologisms, lexicon and many other aspects of our speech. Among the many doubts to be removed from readers there is also the one connected to the origin of its name: why “bran”? It’s one food metaphor ...
The most up-to-date photograph of mobile Internet performance in Italy, taken byAGCOM through some surveys carried out between September and December 2025, it tells us that today we navigate on average at speeds that until a few years ago were the prerogative of the most advanced fixed networks. If we look at the data collected in the main Italian cities, ...
Written language is among the few elements that distinguish our species from other animals: although complex communication systems have evolved in many animal species, none have developed the association between written concepts, words and symbols corresponding, typical of our civilizations. But there are some cases of animals with high cognitive abilities that learn to recognizeif properly trained, even written human ...
Even today many people think that preserving stacks in the refrigerator help to prolong it durationbased on the advice handed down by grandparents over the years. But is it really like that? Not really, though grain of truth there really is a “trick” behind this. As in the case of aluminum foil to improve the performance of the freezer, the ...
It is underway today afternoon February 25, 2026 a down to the online services of Intesa Sanpaolo. According to the portal Downdetectoras of 1pm numerous customers have reported problems with the app of the banking institution (41%), with i banking services for smartphones (39%) and with the online bank (20%), with a peak of over 2200 reports around 3pm. At ...
The bill on the bill stops in the House equal leavedesigned to extend the paternity leave until five monthsmaking it largely obligatory and fully paid, and at the same time strengthening the economic protections linked to maternity. The Budget Commission expressed negative opinion after the State General Accounting Office deemed the financial coverage provided by the provision to be “unsuitable”. ...