You put your smartphone on charge, come back after an hour… and the battery is still zero. What are you thinking? The failure of an internal component? A defect in the cable or in the transformer itself? Although these explanations may sometimes be plausible, there could actually be a much less “serious” cause: the charging port – by now USB-C ...
If you play sports you will most likely have heard of the creatine to improve your performance. In fact, there is a kernel of truth! And there are also well two claims approved by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) which concern creatine and its use in sport for the adult population onlyestablishing the maximum daily limit a 3 grams ...
The volleyball we know today, with quick sets to 25 points and matches of overall predictable duration, has not always existed. For much of its history the scoring system was completely differentand that change had a profound impact on the game, the tactics and the public’s perception of it. The “classic” system: the ball change For decades, volleyball has adopted ...
Study, work, resign. This seems to be the parable of thousands of Italian women who every year are forced to leave their jobs to dedicate themselves to their family and children. The annual report on the validation of resignations and consensual resolutions of working mothers and working fathers of theNational Labor Inspectorate speaks clearly: in the last year analyzed, 2024, ...
Image generated with AI. In the Pacific Ocean, over 1000 km from Papua New Guinea, there is an island of about 12,000 inhabitants which, during the 1970s, was the Country with the highest GDP per capita in the world. That same island, Nauru, has now fallen from grace and hosts detention centers for refugees on behalf of Australia. But how ...
Generated with AI for illustrative purposes only. A Scorpio has two weapons: the sting on the “tail” (metasome), with which it injects the poison, and the frontal clawswith which it grabs and crushes prey. Both contain heavy metals such as zinc, manganese And iron incorporated directly into the exoskeleton. This is not an environmental contamination but an evolutionary choice refined ...
The entrance to Caffè Florian – Credits: Kent Wang from Barcelona, Spain, CC BY–SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons The oldest historic café still active in Italy and among the oldest in the world, was inaugurated on 29 December 1720 in St. Mark’s Square to Venicewith the name of “To Triumphant Venice“, but was immediately called “Florian“, from the name of ...
The distribution of major seismic events between 1999 and 2024 in southern Italy. Credit: INGV A new study by INGV (National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology), published on the “ISI – Italian Seismic Engineering” portal, shows how seismicity has changed over time in southern Italy. Before 1908, the year of the Messina earthquake, they occurred few earthquakes but very strong ...
Credit: Google. Google decided to bring in Italy some of the most anticipated features of Geminihis AI-based assistant. This is a significant update that points in a very specific direction: making Gemini an increasingly personalized assistant, capable of remembering who we are, what we like and how we communicate, instead of responding the same way to everyone. Among the most ...
2026 holds a small astronomical gift for us: in May we will have two full moons in the same monththe first the May 1st and the second the May 31stwhich will also be a so-called “micromoon”, that is, it will appear slightly smaller and less bright than usual in the sky. In general, the full moon in a month has ...