Perhaps it will be necessary to remember this day on Monday, October 8, 2018. It began with the publication of a 400-page paving stone: the report of the IPCC, the international organization that monitors our climate. Its verdict is a wake-up call: the climate is getting out of control and if nothing is done we are going to
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The U.S. military is studying the possibility of creating a new type of biological weapon. It would involve insects selected to carry a genetically modified virus. The objective of this plan, deployed through DARPA, the U.S. Army's research agency, is to rapidly deploy this armada if critical crops for
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A US government report reveals that the Trump administration is fully aware of the devastating effects of climate change but that nothing will be done to stop the trend. On the contrary. A chilling cynicism. For President Donald Trump, climate disruption is a vast and complex problem.
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It can be seen all over the world: the buzzing of bee colonies is dying out and hives are collapsing. Bees, these vital pollinators for our food, are disappearing in a terrifying ecological armageddon: 35 % of the world's food production is directly linked to the free service offered by
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Malaria, Zika, chikungunya... are terrible scourges. Caused by mosquitoes that all the affected countries intend to eradicate. Researchers have long been examining chemical (insecticides), physical (radiation), transgenic solutions... Nothing seems to be effective enough next to a bludgeoning weapon: genetic forcing. It is a
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Imagine your body adorned with flashing light tattoos and a sophisticated circuit network design. Cyberpunk science fiction, you might say. And yet, these new tattoos are coming: they'll give us personalized health advice in real time. They'll connect our biology to the web, and put the Internet of things at the
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The scientific-economic-judicial battle has been raging for ten years. Are organisms (plants or animal species) modified by genetic engineering tools such as CRISPR GMOs or not? The Court of Justice of the European Union has just handed down its verdict, which will henceforth set a precedent: organisms modified by
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President Trump has announced his intention to create a new force: the United States Space Force. At a time when the conquest of space is in full swing and rockets are rushing through the gates of space, when our society is vitally dependent on satellite networks and when precious resources are being lost.
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Nous savions que le Gulf Stream, ce courant océanique qui joue un rôle majeur dans le climat mondial, était en train de se dérégler. Les scientifiques s’accordent aujourd’hui à dire qu’un autre courant, situé cette fois dans les airs, à une quinzaine de kilomètres d’altitude, le Jet Stream, était lui
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The superlatives are going full speed ahead since Google announced the release of its voice assistant capable of making phone calls for you. Awesome or terrifying, this technological feat is undoubtedly remarkable. Because it is a question of imitating the human voice to fill out immense services for you.
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France Stratégie, the General Commission for Strategy and Foresight reporting to the Prime Minister, has just published a timely report on the issue of the blockade. This technology promises programmable transactions without the intervention of a trusted third party. The disruptive potential of such an innovation calls, according to the authors of the
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Let's go for a month. That's all we're gonna talk about now: the World Cup. The fans have taken out their flags and are already seated in front of their TV sets. In the pubs, conversations and predictions are going well. Who's going to win? Everyone is in it.
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They're big bugs, unusually big for viruses. So huge, it's a wonder they could be under the radar of scientists until... 2013. The first "pandoravirus" was spotted on a beach in Chile. Then things accelerated and we started to find one...
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Lundi 11 juin, Carrefour et Google ont scellé un accord « stratégique » : à partir de 2019, l’assistant vocal du géant américain sera utilisé pour commander ses achats chez le distributeur français. Un pacte numérique pour aborder le nouveau monde du commerce et rivaliser avec l’autre géant, Amazon. Mais un pacte de
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The most important thing that came out of the last G7 summit in Canada was Donald Trump's stunt of slamming the door in the face of his allies. What was less noticed was the disagreement over a subject on which the scientific community
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Doctors, scientists, the WHO and all public health organizations keep telling us this. We are on the brink of a devastating global pandemic. The question that no one can answer is that of the source of this expected and almost certain disease. Will it be
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After the approval of the European Union, it is now the turn of the American justice system to validate the marriage between two giants: the American pesticides and seeds giant Monsanto and the German chemicals conglomerate Bayer. A union sealed for the astronomical sum of 66 billion dollars. Plant protection products, seeds,
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There is no shortage of projects, candidates and enthusiasm for going to Mars. This old dream of man, which could, according to Elon Musk, come true in 2025. That's almost tomorrow. But the journey to Mars and life on the Red Planet will not be easy. A great leap
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Chinese scientists are not always bothered by ethical issues and are forcibly moving forward with genetic editing. The molecular scissors CRISPR no longer holds any secrets for them and they use it without complex to transform living organisms. This is what a team of scientists has just achieved by modifying the molecular scissors CRISPR.
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Since the dawn of time, debates and controversies have clashed over the origin of life. Scientists have just published an article accumulating evidence of an extraterrestrial origin for certain species living on Earth. This is the case for certain viruses and cephalopods that have genetic characteristics that we do not know about.
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