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Omar Pene, 50 years of artistic and civic engagement!
In 1972, the young Omar Pene joined the Kadd Orchestra which would soon become the Super Diamono of Dakar, one of the emblematic formations of “The Epic of Black Music”.…
The first bricks of life were already on Earth more than 3.8 billion years ago!
How did life and the first biological molecules emerge from the primitive prebiotic soup? A new study on the original proteins takes a small step forward in understanding our origins.…
NASA maps global lightning strikes over 25 years
A sensor installed on the ISS allows NASA to have a global map of lightning strikes across the globe from 1995 to 2020. It highlights the most struck areas in…
Covid: Five things we’ve learned two years after the pandemic
It has been exactly two years since China announced to the world that it had discovered a new coronavirus. Since December 31, 2019, when this statement was made, the world…
eleven years later, Anders Breivik requests his release
In Norway, eleven years after the Utoya massacre which killed 69 people, Anders Breivik, sentenced to life imprisonment, has applied for parole. The 42-year-old extremist took the opportunity to make…
It turns out: Apple thought about it years ago! If it was for sale it would run on battery
Apple, which took a step in the smart speaker by launching the HomePod, finally unveiled the HomePod mini. As far as we know, the company has not thought of producing…
Origin of life on Earth: the first bricks were already there more than 3.8 billion years ago
How did life and the first biological molecules emerge from the primitive prebiotic soup? A new study on the original proteins takes a small step forward in understanding our origins.…
The building blocks of life on Earth were already present more than 3.8 billion years ago
How did life and the first biological molecules emerge from the primitive prebiotic soup? A new study on the original proteins takes a small step forward in understanding our origins.…
Fifteen years of iPhone, new folding smartphones, Wordle… The summary of the tech news of the week
The iPhone, already fifteen years old! It was January 9, 2007. In what will undoubtedly remain one of the best keynote in history, Steve Jobs unveils the iPhone, a phone…
400 years Molière [2/2], both “African” and star in the digital age
Even 400 years after his birth, Molière seems to resist everything. Long spearhead of French cultural colonialism, he then became the voice of the revolutionaries. An emblem of classical theatre,…