Tag: Science and Health
Pedagogical Innovation Fund: 13 “good ideas” for teachers and establishments
In an address to rectors delivered on August 25, 2022, President Emmanuel Macron announced the creation of an educational innovation fund. Endowed with 500 million euros, its aim is to…
Nuclear fusion: is the new American breakthrough a game-changer?
Major scientific breakthroughs sometimes hide a mountain of difficulties to come. So much so that it is not always easy to assess its scope. As such, the latest results from…
Coffee and sleep: two sworn enemies, really?
It is sometimes consumed excessively to compensate for the yawns that accumulate, but is coffee dangerous for sleep? The chemical mechanism is well known: when we are awake, our brain…
Smoking is on the rise again in France… A “Covid” effect?
The French smoke more and more. According to the results of a Public Health France study, published on Tuesday, tobacco consumption started to increase again in 2021 after having stagnated…
The benefits of the siesta, between myths and reality
It can be a temporary abandonment, a padded parenthesis, or a discreet snooze in the middle of the day. Whether wanted or necessary, the siesta is increasingly seen as a…
Covid-19: vaccination is on the rise again as the holidays approach
The Minister of Health François Braun had launched, at the beginning of December, a “solemn appeal for vaccination”, while the recall campaign launched in the fall for the most fragile…
“The Covid scares me less”: these French people who are reluctant to take the 4th dose of vaccine
It is a “solemn call for a burst of vaccination” that launched, this Friday, December 9, the Minister of Health, François Braun. While Public Health France reports, in its weekly…
Better sleep: advice from scientists to get back to sleep
What if the quality of our nights predicted the moment of our death? This is the amazing discovery – worrying, some will judge – specialists from the sleep center at…
Fight against AIDS: a poorly monitored and poorly controlled epidemic
A worrying silence now surrounds the AIDS epidemic, made invisible by other emergencies – the health crisis, the hospital crisis, the war in Ukraine, the power cuts… December 1st was…
Covid-19, Mpox, avian flu… The decline of biodiversity threatens us all
Animals of all kinds locked up in a market, a confined city, an invisible enemy raging, the world soon to its knees… The beginning of the script for a disaster…