Tag: Science and Health
Faced with declining fertility… How will babies be made in the future?
In this episode of La Loupe, Xavier Yvon takes an interest in these new fertility technologies with Alexandra Saviana, journalist at the Société de L’Express service and Robin Rivaton, Tech…
Olivier Soulier, who died after a shamanic session: itinerary of an “all alternative” ayatollah
He was one of the most active representatives of alternative medicine. Olivier Soulier died on the night of June 28 to 29, according to information from There Voice of the…
Heat wave: will our body be able to adapt to the heat in the future?
With the rise in temperatures, the summer season is now dreaded by part of the population. After the heat waves that hit France in July 2022, other records are being…
“Do you accept our cookies?” : how companies try to deceive you
“If it’s free, you are the product.” According to Laurent Chemla, computer scientist and author of the book Confessions of a thief: Internet, confiscated freedomit would be more accurate to…
Human “synthetic embryos”: investigation of a laboratory “revolution”
Imagine: behind closed doors in a laboratory, clusters of cells are bathed in a strange liquid. These are simple cells taken from the skin of a mammal, nothing extraordinary at…
Climate, biodiversity… Let’s not abandon rationality, let’s rebuild it, by Etienne Klein
Four years ago, Michel Serres left us. Cybernetics, communication, religions, history of science, art, mathematics, bodies, symbols, languages, oceans, mountaineering, Tintin, everything interested the philosopher, but it was the persistence…
Glyphosate: “The debate is so divisive that it is difficult to discuss”
Glyphosate, a herbicide molecule used in many commercial formulations aimed at eliminating weeds, does not present a “critical area of concern” in humans, animals and the environment preventing the renewal…
Sunscreens: why ANSES is asking for the withdrawal of octocrylene, a widely used UV filter
Octocrylene, a chemical UV filter present in many cosmetic products, has been the subject, since May 26, 2023, of a request for restriction due to environmental and potentially health risks,…
Tick-borne encephalitis: five questions about this virus which is gaining ground in France
Tick-borne encephalitis is gaining ground in Europe, and, in France: 71 cases have been reported since 2021, with an expansion of the affected areas, according to a first report published…
Shortage of drugs: “The executive gets entangled in contradictory communication”
They scoured the country, looking for answers. In a report of approximately 400 pages, the result of multiple interviews with the governments of the last decades, industrialists and health institutions,…