Tag: Science
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…
Riots: when neighborhood renovation is just as safe
The toll is rather light: a disused neighborhood house and burnt out cars. Despite the scorched smell, the Parc aux Hares has not been totally swept away by the riots…
What are NGTs, these “new GMOs” whose use the European Commission wants to facilitate?
Varieties requiring less pesticides, seeds that are more durable, more productive or more resistant to drought and disease, wheat low in gluten… Here are the promises of “NGT”, the “new…
“Essential” drugs: duplicates, omissions and molecules of little use, by Pr Gilles Pialoux
Antidiabetics, antibiotics, anticoagulants, antidepressants, antipsychotics… More than two weeks after its publication, the list of 450 so-called “essential” drugs presented by François Braun, Minister of Health, and Roland Lescure, Minister…
In Tanzania, fear of a rice “Covid”
In Tanzania, a disease is ravaging rice crops. An epidemic that is gaining momentum, about 20% of the country’s rice fields would be affected according to the Tanzanian agricultural research…
Bac reform: ministries need scientific advice, by Franck Ramus
The school year that is ending has made it possible to measure the impact of the last reform of high school and the baccalaureate, launched in 2018: early final exams,…
Euclid, the European telescope in pursuit of the dark side of the Universe
Successful takeoff. This Saturday, July 1 at 5:12 p.m. (French time), Euclid, a revolutionary space telescope, took off from Cape Canaveral (United States) in the direction of space in order…
Toxic substances in senators’ hair: the gray areas behind the publicity stunt
The announcement caused a stir. Twenty-six socialist senators, who in July 2022 entrusted a lock of their hair to the private laboratory ToxSeek to screen for 1,800 organic pollutants and…
At the CNRS, the bureaucracy heats the spirits: “You have to stamp everything triple”
“Administrative obstacles” to the CNRS? Pierre laughs yellow. “I have an anecdote, you will quickly understand,” slips this sociologist in his sixties, who preferred to remain anonymous. The researcher works…