We're not on Planet of the Apes, but almost. Indeed, scientists have just implanted a gene specific to man that would be responsible for the size of our brain and our so-called advanced cognitive abilities. The result is so spectacular that research was immediately stopped.
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Mars seems to have become the latest fashionable destination. There is no shortage of projects and candidates for the long journey are jostling for the gate. It must be said that the first organized trip is for - almost - tomorrow: 2024. That's what Elon Musk predicts, ready to embark.
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The information was published in China in the Beijing National Science Review on March 27 and revealed to the world by the MIT Review today, April 10. Chinese geneticists are believed to have succeeded in introducing copies of a human gene suspected of playing a role in the development of the brain of monkeys.
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These scientists were shocked when they compared the genomes of humans and monkeys for the first time. The latter evolved at a speed a good third faster than ours! Moreover, while mutations in monkeys accelerated over time, those in
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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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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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De la détente à la production de bois en passant par de nombreux autres services écosystémiques, les forêts sont l’objet de nombreux enjeux notamment dans un contexte de changements globaux. Ouvrant de nouvelles perspectives pour comprendre l’évolution des peuplements forestiers et prédire leur devenir dans le cadre du changement climatique,
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In barely two generations, a new species of bird has appeared on the Galapagos island. This is an incredible phenomenon when you consider that the pace of evolution usually extends over many generations. Darwin would not have believed his eyes! This speed is to be compared to the pressures that the
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Les films hollywoodiens et la littérature de science-fiction alimentent la croyance que les extraterrestres sont des êtres d’un autre monde, ressemblant à des monstres, qui sont très différents des humains. Mais de nouvelles recherches vont à l’encontre de nos idées reçues ou de nos fantasmes et suggèrent que nous pourrions
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La technologie du séquençage de l’ADN aide les scientifiques à élucider les questions que les humains se posent sur les animaux depuis des siècles. En cartographiant les génomes animaux, nous avons maintenant une meilleure idée de la façon dont la girafe a eu son énorme cou et pourquoi les serpents
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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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Les médias parlent beaucoup de CRISPR, une technique révolutionnaire qui permet d’éditer facilement les gènes comme on le souhaite. Mais rares sont ceux qui parlent du « forçage génétique », une application de CRISPR qui court-circuite les lois de l’hérédité et qui nous rend capable d’éradiquer des populations jugées nuisibles,
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It is rare to meet "hard" scientists talking about the immaterial. They surprise themselves: it is not about religion or spirit, they repeat. What Pierre-Henri Gouyon, Jean-Louis Dessalles and Cédric Gaucherel want to talk to us about is information. Not news from newspapers or
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Discovering a new communication system in animals is unusual for the scientific world. But it is also very rare to demonstrate that a communication system between males and females derives from sensory circuits initially used by the species in a context of predator avoidance... Yet this is what
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