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07.24.2025
Steven Spielberg’s "Jaws" is back in cinemas worldwide 50 years after its original release. The specialist Éric Clua talks about the negative image of sharks conveyed by the film and a new...
07.22.2025
Digital cemeteries, deadbots… Is the development of digital tools changing the way we cope with death and mourning, as depicted in David Cronenberg’s latest film "The Shrouds"?
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07.05.2025
Researchers have shown that dogs had a place in the first agricultural societies of Central and South America more than 5,000 years ago. But the arrival of European settlers brought about a drastic...
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06.18.2025
Sign languages are languages like any other. A new platform called Sign-Hub documents their diversity around the world and shows the importance of learning them at an early age, as with any oral...
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04.21.2025
Prehistoric sites across France, such as the famous Chauvet Cave or L’Ile d’Yeu, are being closely monitored so as to understand how they are being endangered by climate change, and avoid the...
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04.16.2025
Arthur is a new submersible ROV (remotely-operated vehicle) designed for underwater archaeology. Offering unprecedented performance and versatility, it is able to explore shipwrecks for treasure and...
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04.14.2025
In "Mickey 17", the latest film by the South Korean director Bong Joon-ho, the main character is recruited as an “Expendable” as part of a mission to colonise an exoplanet. Each time he...
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04.10.2025
Mycoses resistant to antifungal drugs are on the increase. Not least because treatments against pathogenic fungi are used in agriculture as well as in human and animal health.
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03.27.2025
At the Musée de l’Homme anthropology museum in Paris, an exhibition traces the movements of Homo sapiens across the long history of humanity. To address this complex topic, often the subject of...
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03.26.2025
The metabolism of astronauts, the behaviour of plants, the reactions of living beings to radiation and of foams to weightlessness… The International Space Station does not only observe Space, as...