In the southwest corner of the Antarctic continent, there is a river of ice known as "the world's most dangerous glacier". On Monday, American and British scientists officially launched a venture to study the Thwaites Glacier. Their goal: to determine whether it is heading towards a catastrophic collapse in a
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May 1st is Labour Day! On this occasion, we make the bridge, we take a rest or we parade. You grumble a little or a lot against your employer, but compared to what happens in China, you can consider yourself very happy. You probably have
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Facebook was brought into the media spotlight during the Cambridge Analytica affair. The scandal showed how the social network was accumulating unprecedented masses of personal data that were then used by pharmacies to target specific audiences and distort, in particular, elections. During the hearings
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A flutter of butterfly wings could trigger a tornado halfway around the world. Everybody knows this image intended to popularize chaos theory. The discovery just made by researchers at Stanford University is of a similar nature. They have shown that from
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The fight against doping in sports competitions has become a truly global sport. Not a Tour de France, a vintage of the Olympic Games, a world championship, without mentioning doping. The hunt for cheating athletes often makes the headlines, but that is not always the case.
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Michael Spence, the Nobel Prize winner in economics, has just signed an op-ed that warns us about what the Internet could become. As the entire global economy is inextricably linked to the Internet and digital technologies, the need for regulation is becoming more pressing every day. However, according to him
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Tous les voyants de l’état du climat sont au rouge vif. Il ne se passe pas une journée sans qu’un chercheur, un scientifique, un climatologue n’écrive un article alarmiste sur la dégradation du climat. Les journalistes n’en reprennent qu’une infime partie tant la masse d’informations sur le sujet est abondante.
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Des gouvernements, des compagnies pétrolières, des industries puisant dans les énergies fossiles… Les procès se multiplient contre eux, partout dans le monde. De simples citoyens, des ONG ou des stars de cinéma comme Arnold Schwarzenegger conjuguent leurs efforts pour faire plier, devant les tribunaux, ceux qui menacent le climat. En
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Economic researchers have found a systematic link between periods of drought and the outbreak of riots in sub-Saharan Africa. The scientific community has been hypothesizing for several years that there is a link between droughts and the outbreak of riots. In order to formally verify this hypothesis
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You like to take yourself as a selfie? You are not reluctant, far from it, to publish photos of yourself on social networks? Are you a bit of a narcissist? What Facebook has in store for you: a personal paparazzi robot that'll take pictures of you all day long, never tired of your
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China has resolutely embraced new technologies. We often talk about it in our columns. It wants to establish itself as a world leader, dethroning Americans and Europeans alike. But these very advanced technologies are not only intended to improve the lives of its citizens and competitiveness.
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Ten years ago to the day, on February 26, 2008, the giant attic of the planet was inaugurated. Situated in Svalbard, in northern Norway, in an icy landscape, the building seems to have come straight from a distant planet. A freezer of extraordinary proportions, capable of storing all the food in the freezer.
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According to a recent report, the number of wild animals on Earth has halved over the past 40 years. The sixth mass extinction of species is now underway. Not since the end of the dinosaurs have so many animal species disappeared from the Earth. The causes of this situation are indeed
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Let us not celebrate victory too soon and let us not raise undue hopes. The long-awaited cancer vaccine is not going to be on the pharmacy shelves tomorrow morning. But researchers at Stanford University have completed some very promising experiments that they have just published. Their
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A new type of brain implant that works much like a pacemaker could increase memory by 15%. Neural implants that claim to stimulate memory function are not new, but an innovative approach to the problem has led to a device that sends electrical impulses to help the
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Parmi les ressources naturelles il en est une des plus fondamentales car elle est la source de la vie, c’est l’eau. Notre planète regorge d’eau douce mais pourtant elle subit une crise qui ne fait que s’aggraver avec le changement climatique. L’eau est inégalement répartie, mal utilisée, souvent gaspillée. De
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Saviez-vous que 75% de l’alimentation mondiale est générée par seulement 12 plantes et 5 espèces animales ? L’association Agronomes et Vétérinaires Sans Frontières (AVSF) tire la sonnette d’alarme face à l’érosion de la variété des plantes et des animaux utiles à l’alimentation humaine. L’ONG lance donc une campagne pour sensibiliser le
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Climate change could release millions of tonnes of mercury trapped in the permafrost. And that's not good news. It could even be catastrophic for human health and ecosystems around the world. According to a study published on February 5th in the journal Geophysical Research
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While the ozone hole tends to close over Antarctica, scientists observe that this is far from being the case at lower latitudes, where sunlight is strongest and billions of people live. In these regions, ozone
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While the president of Carrefour, Alexandre Bompard, announces the elimination of 2400 jobs and the injection of 2.8 billion euros in digital, at the same time, Amazon, the world leader in e-commerce opens its first mini-mart. Not just any mini-mart; a sensor-covered mini-mart in which customers make
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