Concrete is absolute one of the most used materials in the world and, in fact, it is estimated that approximately 10000000000000000000000000000 are produced every year 4 billion tons. But which country produces the most of them today? The primacy – as also confirmed by the latest annual report drawn up byUnited States Geological Survey – is in the hands of ...
There Crans-Montana tragedywhich saw the death of over 40 people due to a fire in a restaurant in the Swiss town during the New Year celebrations, has reignited attention on the issue of fire safety. A commitment that not only includes knowing what to do in the event of a fire but which starts from the beginning prevention. The Fire ...
For Equitable and Sustainable Wellbeing (BES) we mean a broad vision of social progress that goes beyond mere economic growth, also including social and environmental dimensions. Istat measures it with a set of 12 large dimensions that include over 150 indicators that allow us to understand how Italy is really doinggoing beyond GDP numbers. A country can in fact grow ...
The explosions that occurred in Caracas on the night of January 3, 2026. photo credits: Mohamad Safa on During the early hours of the night of January 3, 2026 several explosions and fires hit the military areas of Caracas. The attack was claimed by American President Donald Trump on his X profile at 4.30 local time (10.30 am for Italy), ...
How many times, while making a request to the artificial intelligence, do we use “Please”? And how many more do we thank language learning models for their response? Our tendency to “humanize” AI has a price: reply “thank you” or “please” to ChatGPT, Gemini or other similar models has a significant energy impactboth in terms of electricity and water consumed ...
Never so close to the Sun, at least for this year: at 6.15pm Italians of January 3, 2026 the Earth will reach the perihelionthat is, the point of its orbit at the minimum distance from the Sun. We are talking about a distance of 147,099,894 kmi.e. 4.98 million km less than the maximum distance from the Sun, theaphelionwhich this year ...
Aaah… how nice, having guests at home and bringing out the most refined set we have, the porcelain one given to me by my great-aunt many years ago. We take the cups, the teaspoons but… everyone stop! Here comes a very old tea stain that makes us look bad. It’s the fault of the gods polyphenols: Stubborn molecules contained in ...
The Crans-Montana tragedy, during which they lost their lives at least 47 people remained trapped in a fire on New Year’s Eve, shone a spotlight on the importance of evacuation plans in case of fire: knowing immediately how to behave in front of flames can prove essential, allowing us to act as quickly as possible, especially in emergency situations where ...
Underwater canyons. Credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute On the seabed of Antarctica they are found well 332 canyons, deep up to 4000 m: to show its existence is one map recently published, the most detailed that has been created so far, with five times the number of canyons than previously identified. The map, together with the related catalogue, was drawn up ...
The SPID with PosteID becomes paid. Credit: Poste Italiane The SPID with Poste Italiane officially becomes paid: this is what the company announced to its users with an email, which confirms what had already been hypothesized last October. The annual fee will be 6 euroswhich must be paid within 30 days of the deadline under penalty of suspension of digital ...