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”. ...
The temporary structure used for Big Air at the Beijing 2022 Olympics – via x.com The moment a city or country obtains the assignment of Olympic Gamesthe public debate almost always follows the same script. On the one hand the enthusiasm for the event, on the other the fear that, once the brazier is extinguished, many expensive infrastructures built specifically ...
In Negrar, in the province of Verona, one building collapsed following aexplosionwhich probably occurred due to a escape of gas: The accident resulted in the death of one person, a 68-year-old man (owner of the house), while three people were injured. Unfortunately, emergencies of this type they are not that rare in our country: this is why the Fire Brigade ...
3D skull model Spinosaurus mirabilis. Credit: Daniel Vidal. A new study published in the journal Science describes a new species of spinosaurid discovered in the desert of Central Saharain Niger. The fossil, attributed to the genus Spinosaurus and named Spinosaurus mirabilisprovides new data on the evolution and lifestyle of these dinosaurs Late Cretaceous (lived 95 million years ago). Spinosaurids are ...
Image generated with AI. Sometimes you may have read or heard that the Earth would be smoother than a billiard ball. In reality this is not true: the roughness of a billiard ball is much lower than that of our planet. The origin of this cliché probably lies in a misinterpretation of the official regulations on the dimensions of a ...