Ecology

Transferring data from iPhone to Android and vice versa will be easier: what changes from June 1st with the DMA

Transferring data from iPhone to Android and vice versa will be easier: what changes from June 1st with the DMA

Credit: European Commission. Changing smartphones without losing data, settings and functionality has always been more complicated than Big Tech has told us. Those who switched from an iPhone to an Android phone (or vice versa) often found themselves faced with incomplete transfers, disappeared chats, passwords that had to be re-entered from scratch and services that stopped working as before. From ...

Smartworking in crisis and return to the office: causes, Eurostat data and silent dismissal of companies

Smartworking in crisis and return to the office: causes, Eurostat data and silent dismissal of companies

The pandemic six years ago triggered a mass adoption of work remotelyit smartworking. In the first years of application, projections suggested a structural and permanent change towards a flexible and decentralized working model. However, between 2023 and 2025, labor market dynamics showed a progressive trend reversalwith a growing number of companies requiring employees to return to headquarters. Here is an ...

Why isn't Malta Italian? The archipelago was part of the British Empire

Why isn’t Malta Italian? The archipelago was part of the British Empire

Representation generated with AI Even though they are alone 90km from the Sicilian coasts, Malta is not Italian: when the Kingdom of Italy was established in 1861, the Maltese archipelago had belonged to theBritish Empire. After all, the archipelago located in Mediterranean he had never been “Italian”: he had been controlled by Kingdom of Sicily for a few centuries in ...

Remoras hide in the cloaca of manta rays: the curious behavior of hitchhiking fish

Remoras hide in the cloaca of manta rays: the curious behavior of hitchhiking fish

Remora attached to a Great Oceanic Manta Ray (Manta birostris). The hesitations they are those fish that cling to other larger animals such as manta rays, sharks and turtles thanks to a kind of suction cup on their heads to be transported for free across the ocean. A study published in April 2026 in the journal Ecology and Evolution has ...

We have dismantled an automatic mechanical watch: what changes compared to quartz ones?

We have dismantled an automatic mechanical watch: what changes compared to quartz ones?

We all have our eyes on clocks every day but perhaps not everyone knows exactly how they work. For example: why do the second hands move jerkily in some watches while in others they move much more smoothly? And what is the mechanical component responsible for the classic “tic tac”? In this video we clarify these and many other aspects, ...