Toads, fish and nematode worms: the space station's strange menagerie
Published on: January 11, 2019
We call them "model organisms": flies, mice, zebrafish, frogs or...
Planning for better care: the example of myocardial infarction
Published on: December 13, 2018
According to the World Health Organization, every year 17 million people die from...
Alternative pedagogies: a galaxy with varied political aims
Published on: December 11, 2018
Of the twelve million children and teenagers attending school in France, only a few dozen...
The takeover of Ouibus by BlaBlaCar, or the great upheaval in the mobility offer
Published on: December 04, 2018
Since the opening up of the long-distance bus market to competition in August 2015, the...
Slowing down... or finding your own rhythm?
Published on: 08 November 2018
"Stop multitasking to be more productive", "Slow down to succeed", such are the...
Oil at over $80, bad for the economy, good for the climate?
Published on: October 10, 2018
When Nicolas Hulot left the French government, he mentioned among the reasons for his resignation the...
The impact of balls and drops: the same battle
Published on: september 28, 2018
The impact of a drop on a surface has always fascinated mankind: Leonardo da Vinci...
Île de Ré's Baleines lighthouse, a reminder of energy transitions
Published: August 20, 2018
Every summer, the population of the island of Ré, which numbers just over 17,000 in winter,...
Hospital: when caregivers invent their own solutions to their discomfort
Published on: July 16, 2018
Nurse suicides, mass resignations of exhausted emergency doctors, strikes...
Music in the sights of industrial groups
Published on: July 12, 2018
The French music industry is shaken by the unprecedented entry of industrial groups,...
Science invites itself into the world of soccer
Published on: june 20, 2018
Soccer is a game of movement: soccer players generally cover 8 to 12 km...
In France, mosquitoes also transmit the Usutu virus
Published: June 18, 2018
It happened two years ago, but scientists have only just discovered...
A "queer match": ordinary homophobia and enforced heterosexuality
Published on: June 12, 2018
Do you know how many footballers in the world embrace their homosexuality? And how were they...
The secrets of tardigrades, those cosmic Pokémons
Published on: 08 June 2018
They're clawed and mythologically beautiful. Tardigrades, microscopic invertebrates with...
A French "Windrush"? What France has done to its overseas populations
Published on: 07 June 2018
The "Windrush" scandal continues to make headlines in the UK. The...
Ticks and their bacteria: a criminal syndicate
Published on: 06 June 2018
Ticks get a bad press, and this reputation is often justified. These animals...