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What should be done with our bodies once we die? Should they be burned, buried, or just allowed to decompose naturally? A group of researchers from the CNRS is exploring this third, environmentally friendly option – including in the afterlife, which has been...
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11.03.2026
Surrogacy is on the rise in China, even though it is officially banned. The anthropologist Renyou Hou examines how the technique could alter family relationships while fitting in with traditional practices.
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10.23.2026
As birth rates are declining the world over, economists have studied the impact of environmental concerns on fertility choices.
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10.15.2026
Designated as Women's Health Month internationally, October is dotted with dedicated awareness campaigns and events. Yet health is another area in which women are victims of gender inequalities. Although research is finally taking an interest in the...
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10.12.2026
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10.05.2026
A million years ago, long before mass tourism, the Mediterranean islands were home to dwarf elephants. Although tiny when compared to their ancestors, these animals may have inspired the Greek myth...
09.25.2026
Virtual globes, 2D or 3D representations of the world produced from digital data, can fool us into thinking that we now know everything there is to know about the Earth. But a deluge of data is no...
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09.14.2026
The oldest private correspondence in human history is about marriages and divorces, trade and tax evasion, livestock breeding or weaving… Women’s voices stamped in clay four millennia ago offer...
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08.31.2026
The discovery of a previously unknown village in a region of Saudi Arabia that was thought to be only sparsely populated during Late Antiquity reveals the presence of sedentary Jewish communities...
07.24.2026
Behind the pleasure of listening to a song lies an astonishing brain activity: an anticipatory mechanism that translates simple vibrations into emotions. A phenomenon that is especially used in...
07.23.2026
Holiday-makers cross paths at the beach, but so do multiple facets of physics and mathematics. Three research projects are working to better describe this environment so highly sensitive to climate...
04.28.2026
Maïmouna Bocoum, a physicist specialising in acousto-optics at the Paris-based Langevin Institute, develops imaging technologies for the early detection of breast tumours. She was awarded this year’s...
04.20.2026
The international crisis over Greenland has highlighted the wealth of the Far North's underground resources, but at the same time obscured the role of its inhabitants in their extraction. All...
04.15.2026
At a time when the game “GTA VI”, whose launch has been postponed to November 2026, is drawing ever-greater attention in the media, a social psychology researcher investigates the impact on player...