How the Internet travels inside very thin underwater glass threads: the history of optical fiber
Much of the Internet travels inside very thin threads of glass. Every message sent on WhatsApp, every TV series watched ...
Moser broke the hour record with a 9.6 kg bicycle: when technology defied the rules
Miguel Indurain’s Pinarello Espada. Credits: pinarello.com On January 19, 1984, at the velodrome in Mexico City, Francesco Moser set out ...
Why a photo can weigh 300 KB or 30 MB: the differences between JPEG, PNG, WebP, HEIF and RAW
Image generated for illustrative purposes only with AI. A digital photograph can occupy a few hundred KB, while another, apparently ...
Gli, li, lo, them: why we get these pronouns wrong and when to use them correctly
“I forced them”; “I’m going to visit my parents and bring them some apples.” These are phrases that you may ...
The yellow post-it was born from a mistake: how a “wrong” glue revolutionized the world
Image generated with AI. In 1968, chemist Spencer Silver, a researcher at 3M in Saint Paul, Minnesota, was trying to ...
Pun abolition, with zonal prices the bill changes from North to South
Arera is moving towards abandoning the PUN, the Single National Price. It indicated this in the Annual Report, proposing the ...
What to do if you find yourself in a forest fire: who to call and how to protect yourself from smoke and flames
In 2026, 47,942 hectares have already burned in Italy, 135% more than the average for the period 2006-2025, when as ...
Do video games change the brain? What studies say about attention, memory and reward
“Video games train the brain”, a cliché, but also a question that neuroscientists have been asking for years: can a ...
War in Iran, 29 billion price increases for families and businesses
In 2026, Italian families and businesses will find themselves having to deal with a new, heavy wave of energy price ...
Lewis Hamilton, all the records of the most successful driver in Formula 1: 7 times world champion
At the Barcelona GP, Lewis Hamilton won his first victory at the wheel of Ferrari, bringing the seven-time world champion ...
