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Anita Vuya is following a Master of Physics at Pwani University in Malindi, Kenya, where she studies the impacts of magnetic storms on wave transmission on Earth. As a woman and an African, Anita has taken up a major challenge: to be a role model for other women who are under pressure to drop out of school and start a family.

As a child, she wanted to become an astronaut... Her studies in applied mathematics and physics have led her to the space field, where she tracks down interesting innovations to be developed, such as an invisibility cloak that deflects acoustic waves from rockets.

This Italian scientist collects data from the meteorological station in the aftermath of a sandstorm. The instruments of the ExoMars program are installed in the desert region of Merzouga in Morocco to study certain parameters common to the Martian surface.

From Noordwijk in the Netherlands, Ana Bolea Alamanac (Esa/Estec) is interested in observing maritime traffic. Thanks to the micro-satellites placed in low orbit, ship beacons are located. Thus, the fight against illegal environmental activities (degassing, fishing...) can get organized!

From space, Ana Martins, head of the oceanography department at the University of the Azores in Portugal, studies ocean colours using the visible spectrum of electromagnetic radiation to observe marine currents and infer properties such as phytoplankton presence, water temperature and salinity. Thanks to satellite oceanography, Ana has reconciled her two passions: space and the ocean.

Marina Rantanen is a young graduate in training at ESA (ESTEC). She likes to work on technologies that will one day be embedded in space.

Quantum physics may be tomorrow's answer to secure sensitive data... unless the hackers themselves become quantum!

One can protect oneself from water thanks to the hydrophobic surfaces like that of the lotus leaf, or thanks to the calefaction. In these two phenomena, the water levitates at almost normal temperatures. That opens up many possibilities! An episode of the series "The black box".

The morpho is a beautiful butterfly from South America whose wings seem to radiate a blue light. Could we imitate the structure of its wings to generate light, too? An episode of the series "The black box".

In the brain, the thalamus regulates pain, but is difficult to access. To treat persistent pain such as fibromyalgia, a non-invasive method is being studied: the use of a magnetic field on a targeted area by a preparatory MRI.

The movements of bacteria seem random. However, from these non-rectilinear trajectories emerges a perfect overall movement when it comes, for example, to joining food, in this case glucose... Other cases are observable in nature, in fish or insects. An episode of the series "The black box".

The adult brain compensates for words that lacked a sentence using experience and context. But what happens in the brain of a 2-year-old child? Will he recognize a sentence with a correct meaning but an incorrect syntax? An episode of the series "The black box".