Tag: Science and Health
Covid-19: will the peak of the ninth wave be crossed before Christmas?
The peak of the ninth wave could be reached before Christmas. The third, already, in Covid times. While the contamination curve has continued to point upwards for the past three…
What are these “nanomaterials” found in 20 everyday products?
Twenty-three products tested and nanomaterials detected in twenty of them. The Avicenn association published, this Thursday, December 15, its nano investigation report in everyday products. The tests revealed the presence…
Sleep: when the quality of our nights becomes a political issue
“Let’s wake up to the importance of sleep”, recently headlined the prestigious scientific magazine The Lancet. Humans devote a third of their life to sleep, but this activity is barely…
“It’s going to be a tsunami of prescriptions”: French people invent the anti-insomnia pill
It hasn’t happened for more than thirty years. For the first time since the invention of benzodiazepines and z-drugs (stilnox…), a new family of sleeping pills is about to hit…
Snow, ice… Why we are not all equal in the face of the cold
All-out battle this Wednesday morning in Ile-de-France, in the Meuse, the Vosges or even the Haut-Rhin. Météo France has placed 18 departments on orange alert due to the snowfall and…
Sleep: what science says – Le dossier de L’Express
Where did our restful nights go? According to the Coviprev barometer published by Public Health France, 71% of French people complain of sleeping poorly, ten points more than in 2020.…
How to overcome insomnia? The only effective method (and validated by science)
A badly heated room, the walls covered with cupboards overflowing with medical files. Here is Simon, a young computer scientist with disturbed sleep since the Covid. Anita and Yolande, two…
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…