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After millennia of very slow evolution, the world's population has experienced accelerated growth since 1800. Will it continue to grow? Will it stabilize? Is there a risk of decline? This Ined animation explores several scenarios.
Fraudulent articles “pollute” science. Guillaume Cabanac wants to clean it up. To this end, this teacher-researcher designed software that sifts through scientific publications looking for signs of fraud, such as copying unduly paraphrased passages of articles.
Created in Normandy in 1999, Cirale, dependent on the Maisons Alfort veterinary school, specializes in musculoskeletal problems in horses. Patients admitted for veterinary care also enable research. The center recently acquired an aquatic area, unique in Europe.
How did Australopitecus, Homo habilis and our other ancestors or “cousins” move? Biomechanists and computer scientists model the walking of human specimens and baboons...
Today, much of a researcher’s career is international. A meeting with Jean-Jacques Hublin, a palaeoanthropologist at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, Germany. A pioneer in the field.
Near Geneva, at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN), 2,500 engineers and technicians from more than a hundred countries work to ensure the proper operation of the great machine on a daily basis.
Graphene – a single-layer carbon allotrope – is attracting European investment. Fine, light, strong and a conductor of electricity, the new material is revolutionising many technological sectors, such as energy and telecommunications.
What is left of the scientific relationship between the Europeans and British, so productive before Brexit? The need for visas and the end of access to European funds are jeopardising joint research projects.
To halve the use of synthetic pesticides by 2030 in compliance with the ‘Green Deal’, the scientific communities of a number of European organisations are coming together to optimise support for farmers
With a main mirror 39 metres in diameter, it will be the largest earth telescope in the world. The European Southern Observatory’s ELT (Extremely Large Telescope) is currently under construction in Chile’s Atacama Desert.
The Posidonia meadow is a marine plant native to the land. This immense meadow traps CO2 and is home to numerous species. In Corsica, in Calvi, the Stareso oceanographic station has set up a system for analysing the health of this precious plant, which is endangered by human activities and climate change.
In Uganda, Agnes Kirraga is an infectious disease specialist working on malaria, syphilis, HIV... and these days the coronavirus. In particular, she tries to merge the science of big data and machine learning in order to exploit healthcare big data.
