Ecology

How international telephone codes were decided and what they are: history

How international telephone codes were decided and what they are: history

Map of international dialing codes. Credit: Credit: Maximilian Dörrbecker, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. The international telephone prefix it is a code that must be added before a national telephone number to be able to make calls abroad: every country has one, for example Italian mobile numbers have the prefix +39 (or 0039), those of the USA (and Canada) ...

How organ transplantation works and how to become a donor in Italy

How organ transplantation works and how to become a donor in Italy

What really happens when an organ leaves a donor’s body to save another? It’s a race against time involving surgery, biology and complex logistics. In this in-depth study we take you “behind the scenes” of the operating room to understand how doctors challenge cell death through thermal shock and the perfusionfundamental techniques to keep the heart, liver and kidneys alive ...

Who evades taxes the most in Italy? Restaurants and nightclubs in first place: the ranking

Who evades taxes the most in Italy? Restaurants and nightclubs in first place: the ranking

According to the Finance Department of the Treasury Ministry and the latest investigation by Il Sole 24 Ore the categories that escape the most they are restaurateurs, hoteliers and bakers. Let’s see the complete updated ranking. On the contrary, pharmacies and doctors’ offices are among the categories that evade the least. According to the report, the worst affected would be ...

Because the A23a iceberg, as big as Rome, has turned blue and is disintegrating

Because the A23a iceberg, as big as Rome, has turned blue and is disintegrating

The A23a iceberg in late December 2025. Credit: NASA The A23a iceberg, one of the largest and longest-lived ever observed in the world, melting it became blue and after 40 years of its formation it is on the verge of disintegrate completely. After breaking away from Antarctica in 1986, it ran aground for a long time and several times on ...

Snow and cold wave, airports closed in Europe: why planes don't fly in ice

Snow and cold wave, airports closed in Europe: why planes don’t fly in ice

Different European airports they remained closed temporarily due towave of cold and frost which affected parts of central and eastern Europe: among these also the airport of Viennaone of the busiest on the continent, as well as those of Budapest (Hungary), Bratislava (Slovakia) and some airports in France and the United Kingdom. But why can’t planes fly in ice? As ...

Digital school books are a flop, only 16% of students use them for school: the causes

Digital school books are a flop, only 16% of students use them for school: the causes

Although the 2012 reform had laid the foundations for a massive technological transition within Italian school classrooms (at least on paper), the data emerging from the recent fact-finding survey ofAGCM (Competition and Market Guarantor Authority) photograph a very different and decidedly static reality. Although on paper over 95% of Italian classes have adopted mixed format textbooks, i.e. which provide for ...

How to recognize woodworms and why finding marks on antique furniture can be a good sign

How to recognize woodworms and why finding marks on antique furniture can be a good sign

Small round holes that hide tunnels under the surface: wormholes, as well as ruining the appearance of the wood, they can hide structural damage not recently. These holes are produced by woodworms, small ones xylophagous beetles (wood eaters) who have found an invaluable source of nutrition in our domestic furniture and in the beams of ancient houses. Since most of ...

Train accident in Thailand: a crane collapses on a moving train, causing it to derail

Train accident in Thailand: a crane collapses on a moving train, causing it to derail

Today January 14th, at Around 9.30am (3.30 am in Italy), one was consumed railway tragedy in Thailand, when one crane collapsed on a moving traindoing it derail and causing a fire inside the stricken carriage. According to what was reported by the international media, there is talk of at least 22 victims and of 79 injured out of a total ...

Apple will improve the new Siri with Gemini, Google's AI: why and what impact it will have

Apple will improve the new Siri with Gemini, Google’s AI: why and what impact it will have

Image generated with AI. Apple And Google they made one official multi-year partnership For integrate Gemini AI in new versions of the voice assistant Siri by the end of 2026. This strategic collaboration aims to empower the so-called Foundation Modelsthe Apple framework that serves as the “engine” of Apple Intelligence. This agreement will lay the foundation for a new version ...