Tag: Science
what science says – L’Express
Psychoanalysis: a misunderstood discipline or an outdated practice? This week, La Loupe questions “talk therapy”. In this latest episode, Victor Garcia, a journalist in the Science and Health department, confronts…
Bill Gates’ call against child malnutrition – L’Express
It is a silent tragedy that rich countries and their citizens prefer to forget. They look elsewhere, caught up as they are in their current concerns: war in Ukraine, Israeli-Palestinian…
Screaming while exercising is much more useful than you think, three effects proven by science
Some athletes are known for shouting on tennis courts or in stadiums, sometimes bordering on ridicule. However, shouting has a beneficial effect according to some scientists… Does screaming improve athletic…
“Neuroscience is too often the pretext for a scientific veneer” – L’Express
The brain is the least known organ in the human body. Yet it is the one that fascinates the most. How does it work? Can revealing its mysteries help us…
Iceberg collapse triggers mega-earthquake that shook Earth for nine days
It is an enigma that has left seismologists around the world baffled for almost a year: an earthquake, detected in September 2023 by instruments all around the planet, which lasted…
Two passengers from SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission venture outside the spacecraft
A crew carried out the first-ever private spacewalk on Thursday, September 12, by non-professional astronauts aboard a SpaceX spacecraft, owned by billionaire Elon Musk. A new milestone has been reached…
Overweight and obesity have gained ground in 20 years
The French Public Health Agency conducted a study on the evolution of adult corpulence from 1996 to 2017 (based on weight and height data reported by participants during several telephone…
Behind the scenes of an improbable battle – L’Express
A hall more imposing than a cathedral. Shelves as far as the eye can see, a ballet of forklifts. The French drug manufacturer Upsa stores here, in the suburbs of…
the real reasons to worry, by Professor Gilles Pialoux – L’Express
We were expecting other health alerts at the end of summer 2024. We might as well confess, like the author of this column, that the health risk specialists were wrong.…
Boeing’s Starliner capsule successfully returns to Earth despite uncertainties
Boeing’s Starliner capsule, whose adventures have given rise to a real soap opera, successfully landed on Earth on Saturday, September 7, but without the astronauts who had taken it to…