Making sense of science
As the development of artificial intelligence (AI) demands ever more energy, how can its impact on climate change be limited?
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11.29.2023
In an effort to gain a better understanding of the development of multiple sclerosis and diagnose it before the first symptoms appear, scientists are designing statistical and artificial intelligence (AI) methods to build models of the evolution of brain...
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11.29.2023
How can one study a criminal organisation that, as one of its most basic principles, denies its own existence? To this end, the political anthropologist Deborah Puccio-Den has developed a new paradigm: the anthropology of silence.
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11.24.2023
10.26.2023
Behind its easy-going, accessible appearance, Silicon Valley is a black box that is difficult to grasp. The sociologist Olivier Alexandre provides some keys for doing so, after spending several years...
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09.26.2023
As the volume of digital data increases at dizzying speed, the Genesis project is exploring new avenues for reducing its energy impact.
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09.13.2023
A team of researchers focused on the benefits of drafting for a marathon runner preceded by a “pacer”.
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09.05.2023
Marie-Paule Cani sculpts 3D forms and creates animated virtual worlds. Her intelligent systems for visual creation can be used for research, as well as for producing video games, animated films, and...
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05.22.2023
Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies have been criticised for the huge amounts of electricity required to make them secure. Researchers are exploring new pathways towards more virtuous blockchains.
04.27.2023
Sensors and artificial intelligence are now part of electrical grids, creating more “intelligent” networks known as smart grids. The researcher Nouredine Hadjsaid explains the issues and challenges...
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04.11.2023
Games on mobile phones collect all kinds of personal information without our knowledge. The computer science researcher Pierre Laperdrix and his team have studied this surveillance ecosystem and its...
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03.13.2023
As part of the Climatoscope project, David Chavalarias and his colleagues are studying the structure, tactics and arguments of climate change sceptics on Twitter. The goal of these highly-organised...
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02.09.2023
Fog computing, which is based on reduced computing resources situated as close to users as possible, can avoid reliance on large data centres. This approach is particularly adapted to the Internet of...
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01.26.2023
A CNRS research team is developing a computer program to calculate the risk of collision between a satellite and orbiting debris in real time.
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01.23.2023
Tested this year in Venice, the Maelstrom project's seabed cleaning platform uses a robot to recover marine litter. The robot is controlled by a system of cables and can operate down to a...