The surge of artificial intelligence and the all-digital world is creating, as a corollary, a concern about employment. All analyses agree that a considerable number of workers will be replaced by machines in the near future. But what is less well known is the mass of new jobs that the
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Emails revealed under freedom of information rules by The Guardian prove that DARPA, the US agency for advanced defence research, has become the largest funder of gene drive research. This gene forcing technology is officially intended
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Two groups of scientists have revealed a new, more precise arsenal of genetic editing techniques that could one day help us eradicate genetic diseases through highly chemically targeted surgery. New adaptations of CRISPR-Cas9 allow DNA base pairs to be modified on
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A research project developed by British scientists from the University of York and the University of Leeds has established how to write code that can govern the assembly of viruses. In other words, the researchers claim to be able to write code to control the
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In fairy tales, only a magic wand could turn a frog into a prince or a mouse into a horse! But in the real world, turning one living being into another is not so easy. Whatever... In fact, in recent years, scientists have discovered
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Since this Thursday, September 14, on the radio, on TV, in the newspapers, we only talk about that: the NGO Future Generations would have discovered glyphosate residues in our corn flakes and about thirty foods of our daily life. This product, which is considered carcinogenic, is a widespread herbicide.
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Already at the beginning of the year, UP' Magazine was interested in a series of big maneuvers that were shaking up the Facebook empire and more particularly its young but nonetheless multi-billionaire president, Mark Zuckerberg. There were several signs of his ambition to become the next president of the United States. Signs that have multiplied in recent months.
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Inspire nature rather than enslave it. Doesn't that make more sense? Since antiquity man has observed nature for inspiration. During the Renaissance, the great Leonardo encouraged his contemporaries to take lessons from nature because that is where our future lies. Today, with our language
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Do you know that there is a "clean" nuclear energy, without danger, almost without waste, without risk, without pollution? This "green nuclear" would be thorium. This is not a new thing because this fuel has been known since the end of the 19th century. And yet, this magical energy has never succeeded.
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Scientific knowledge is progressing every day. Every morning we discover a new exoplanet, a new way to produce energy, change our environment or improve our health. Yet researchers have just discovered a terra incognita. And not the least because it's lodged within our bodies,
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Nous savons depuis longtemps qu’à l’heure du numérique omniprésent, notre vie privée était sérieusement menacée. Nos données personnelles se baladent gaiement dans les arcanes du big data et le moindre de nos comportements sur le web est décortiqué par des data scientists de tous poils. Mais l’enquête qu’a menée notre
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Les scientifiques veulent créer génétiquement des vaches résistant à la chaleur pour survivre aux changements climatiques. L’Institut des sciences de l’alimentation et de l’agriculture de l’Université de Floride a proposé un plan pour rendre les vaches plus résistantes à l’augmentation de la température causée par le réchauffement climatique. La
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As medical advances in robotics, implants and other assistive technologies continue, will we, as humans, eventually evolve into a kind of cyborg? What does this mean for society as we know it? Cyborgs: a word that
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Alors que Thomas Pesquet rentre tout juste de son long voyage autour de la Terre et que les projets de tourisme spatial se multiplient, une information publiée cette semaine dans la revue scientifique NPJ Microgravity fait froid dans le dos. Les bactéries placées en situation de microgravité mutent à toute
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Coup de tonnerre dans la communauté CRISPR ! Des centaines de mutations génétiques apparaîtraient là où on ne les attendait pas. C’est l’information que viennent de communiquer des médecins qui se sont penchés sur l’impact de l’utilisation de CRISPR sur des organismes vivants en général et sur l’homme en particulier.
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Aujourd’hui, nos données sont stockées essentiellement sur des supports magnétiques. Imaginons un instant qu’elles puissent être conservées dans de l’ADN, tout comme le sont les données génétiques des organismes vivants. Leur archivage serait alors illimité et tiendrait dans un volume extraordinairement restreint. C’est le pari que fait Microsoft dont les
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The right to cognitive freedom, the right to mental privacy, the right to mental integrity and the right to psychological continuity are the four new laws proposed by researchers to protect themselves from a future that will be dominated by neuroscience. New rights of
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While Elon Musk announces, with much media buzz, the launch of his company NeuraLink, intended to develop an implant that would allow our brain to communicate with an Artificial Intelligence, the French government is thinking. It has commissioned a report from 500 experts, researchers and representatives of the world of
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All gardeners, even Sunday gardeners, know that to obtain beautiful flowers, you must occasionally clean your plants and remove withered stems, leaves and buds. Well, it's a little bit the same for the human body. Researchers at the Erasmus Medical Center at the
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Technological innovations are always full of promise: they will change the world, they are often "disruptive", they will defeat hunger and poverty and lead us into old age, in full health, they will, thanks to nanomachines and other robots, ease our pain at work... Their prowess and
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