C’est votre sexe qui fait la différence – Quand la science démolit les idées reçues, de Claudine Junien et Nicole Priollaud – Editions Plon, 16 février 2023 – 336 pages Certaines maladies – Alzheimer, dépression – touchent plus les femmes. Mais, on trouve quatre fois plus d’autistes chez les garçons,
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Nous pressentons déjà que nous allons tous perdre quelque chose que nous aimions. Je ne parle pas ici des malheurs personnels, des chagrins, des pertes inconsolables que vivent ou vivront de nombreux êtres humains en ces temps épidémiques. Je songe à autre chose de beaucoup moins brutal mais de tout
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Deconfinement is progressing in most Western countries affected by the coronavirus pandemic. An unprecedented period is coming to an end, and once the astonishment is over, languages are being loosened. Some twenty-fifth hour workers are coming to give lessons and rewrite history, while others had always put in
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Freedom regained! headlines. After two and a half months of confinement, little by little, people come out, get together, relive, a little haggard, at the end of this strange period. The health crisis is dissipating, but it is giving way to a crisis.
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We can read and rethink everything through the Covid crisis: our institutions, our economic dynamics, our ecological and social policies. We can also read contributions from almost all sciences. Much has been said about the role of certain mathematical applications related to artificial intelligence.
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L'Oréal, the world leader in cosmetics, prides itself on being a model of social and environmental responsibility. It is even one of its most advanced marketing arguments. However, if we look a little further than the fine words of the firm's communicators, we see that the leader in beauty products
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The International Coordinating Council of UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere Programme, meeting in Palembang (Indonesia) from 23 to 28 July, added 24 new sites to the World Network of Biosphere Reserves. These special sites, known as "Supporting Sites for Science for Sustainability", are
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Science et impact social - Vers une innovation responsable de Mélanie Marcel et Eloïse Szmatula - Avec la collaboration d'Anaïs Bon Edition Diareino, Juin 2017 - 232 Pages A quoi sert la science ? To whom is innovation useful? In the face of the challenges of the century, can scientific progress still
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Taking advantage of advances in mathematics and the growing computing power of computers, "computational sciences" help to reduce the complexity of problems. And to address new questions that were previously inaccessible to scientists. The result is a major potential impact in a wide range of fields. Medical imaging
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Michel Aubier, a renowned lung specialist and former head of department at the Bichat hospital in Paris, appeared on Wednesday for "false testimony". The specialist, who had been heard by a senate committee interested in the cost of air pollution, had forgotten to mention in the Senate his close relationship with the oil company Total.
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The new economic season was spiced up by the controversy initiated by the book by Cahuc and Zylberberg, two economists who claim to be orthodox, on what they call "economic negationism". This negationism would be the tendency of some intellectuals to ignore the results of economic studies or even
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As negotiators prepare an agreement text for COP21, which is expected to establish a new climate regime, the international scientific community is gathering in Paris for four days, from 7 to 10 July, under the auspices of global scientific institutions (ICSU [World Science Council] and FutureEarth [International Programme on Climate Change]).
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