"Dancing, graceful, fascinating, strange, delicious, painful, deadly, jellyfish are all of these things. For fishermen, they are potential nuisances; for swimmers, the fear of a painful, sometimes dangerous sting" (1). Yet jellyfish collagen is set to revolutionize in vitro cell culture and medicine.
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Silence éloquent. Pendant deux heures d’intervention sur TF1 ce 15 décembre, le président de la République a abordé tous les événements qui ont marqué son quinquennat et donné les grandes lignes de sa « vision » pour la France. Mais durant toute cette interview, pas un mot sur le climat,
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Au XIXe siècle, on mesurait les crânes et les cerveaux pour justifier la hiérarchie entre les sexes, les races et classes sociales. Le XXe siècle découvre et admet comme critères modernes les tests cognitifs, l’imagerie cérébrale et les gènes.  Que sera le XXIe siècle, depuis la découverte de la plasticité
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Sailing cargo is booming. While traditional maritime freight accounts for nearly 3% of CO2 emissions in Europe (1), with more than 90,000 merchant ships in circulation, a French startup, NEOLINE, has found an innovative response to the universal environmental challenge while remaining
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The effects of urbanization and climate change are converging in a dangerous way. Cities are highly vulnerable to climate change and will need to adapt. According to the UN, hundreds of millions of people in urban areas around the world will be affected by rising sea levels, rising
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Is the Covid-19 crisis the marker of an imminent collapse of our civilization? The crisis linked to the pandemic has brought a wind of collapse that would have convinced new followers. What if the story of the future collapse of our civilisations was the new avatar of French pessimism?
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Floods, marine submersions, storms, land movements, coastal erosion, forest fires, heat waves, avalanches, earthquakes, ... the list continues to grow but above all to be repeated, leading to more and more risks for populations. And - as we have just learned - six French people out of ten are
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La question de la nature en ville a déjà fait un bon bout de chemin… Ecologues, urbanistes, architectes, acteurs publics, de nombreuses démarches avancent pour revoir nos modèles urbains. Une de ces démarches a le vent en poupe : l’écopâturage urbain. Après les écoquartiers, ce concept un peu fou est
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A qui se fier ? De la crise de confiance institutionnelle à la crise sanitaire, d’Antoine Bristielle – Editions de l’Aube (Collection Monde en cours) / Fondation Jean Jaurès – 18 mars 2021 – 93 pages La nature des mesures adoptées lors de la crise sanitaire, mais aussi leur succès
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Véritable célébration du lien qui unit les créateurs de mode à la danse, l’exposition au CNCS de Moulins rouvre ses portes à compter du jeudi 21 mai.  Entre les prestigieuses créations de Coco Chanel, avec les ballets russes, celles signées par Gianni Versace pour Maurice Béjart ou Christian Lacroix puis
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In our post-viral world, major issues concerning the environment, education, and international relations arise. UNESCO has invited leading women thinkers, specialists in fields ranging from climatology to international relations, physics and African studies, to express their vision of the challenges and opportunities.
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"The French will be able to go on holiday in France in July and August": it's official, Edouard Philippe has just announced this Thursday, May 14th. The deconfinement seems to be on the right track. Even if the Minister of Ecological Transition, Elisabeth Borne, has announced the creation of a
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We know the opinion of the French on the state of the public hospital: 88% of them consider it to be in "danger" and 94% are in favour of increasing the means. Thus, to improve the operation of the public hospital, 87 % suggest more staff and 77 % more budget.
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In order to anticipate and prevent the massive use of private cars at a time of deconfinement, the Climate Action Network is asking the Government to release an emergency fund for bicycles of 500 million euros, which is essential to support communities and ensure the deployment of temporary bicycle paths throughout the country.
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According to its own definition, the online platform MyOwnDocumenta is "a virtual object not identified by the artists themselves", who pose, during their infinite residencies, the traces of their ongoing projects. A collective logbook where each artist or author regularly posts, at his own pace, some of their works.
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Régis Marcon, a starred chef (1), signed an op-ed published in Le Figaro on Monday 20 April to call for "a partial deconfinement of responsible catering". Surrounded by 17 of the most renowned chefs in French catering (2), he calls for saving "more than a million jobs". A platform at the
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Most true inclusive, humanistic and progressive innovations are born in times of acute crisis, under the pressure of urgency and need, which accelerates everything and makes it possible to put technology at the service of know-how and real needs. The Innovation Tuesdays offer two reformatted videos and
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In order to support businesses in the face of the crisis caused by the coronavirus epidemic, the French government has announced a number of measures. Innovative companies believe that the measures are a step in the right direction but that the recovery will have to be thought through over the long term, according to a study by the Committee.
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Public Health France makes available indicators for monitoring the COVID-19 epidemic by department, in order to follow the day-to-day evolution of hospitalisations in our regions and monitor the intensity of the epidemic. UP' offers you the graphs of Public Health France, revealing a national epidemic with variable geography. From
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On April 5, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that a tiger at the Bronx Zoo in New York City was found to test positive for COVID-19, along with six other tigers and lions, with symptoms consistent with the disease. This detection of the new coronavirus in a wild animal is an important step in the fight against the disease.
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