Published on : 16/02/2022 – 12:27 Does the brain really decide our food choices? Is it the guardian of the taste memories of our childhood: from the taste of caramel cream to the smell of chocolate cake? Why do we prefer sweet to salty? How are addictions explained? Why are we hungry or thirsty? Why … Read more
Published on : 14/02/2022 – 11:08 Who was really Neanderthal? A thick brute as we have long portrayed him, a distant cousin adorned with necklaces of shells and feathers as we have imagined him more recently? Or a being endowed with astonishing creativity whose mystery of disappearance 42,000 years ago has still not been solved? … Read more
Published on : 25/01/2022 – 14:46 Welcome to the raft of the peaks, a mind-blowing device, a kind of laboratory placed by inflatable balloon at the top of the tropical forests to study the incredible biodiversity of the equatorial canopy. Viewpoints from the researchers who shared these wonderful adventures. Meet from the top of the … Read more
Published on : 24/01/2022 – 16:10 How to trap atoms by cooling them with laser light? Meeting with a pioneer of quantum simulation, Professor Jean Dalibard, winner of the CNRS Gold Medal and a formidable smuggler of the most complex, exotic and quantum sciences… Let’s explore another world which is also ours, the quantum world … Read more
Published on : 19/01/2022 – 10:22Modified : 19/01/2022 – 10:24 Perspectives on this human and universal tendency to tell us stories to give meaning to our lives. Let’s ask ourselves about our human tendency to be attracted by the paranormal. Why do we love the supernatural so much? Why is our brain somehow wired to … Read more
Published on : 18/01/2022 – 12:01 Let’s question the way we look at others, starting with other animals who only have beasts by the name we have given them. “Are we too stupid to understand other animals”, wondered ironically the famous ethologist Frans de Waal? And if we had to recognize both the beast, the … Read more
Published on : 11/01/2022 – 16:10 How to approach the fabulous world of insects in its incredible diversity and in all its beauty? The entomologist Henri-Pierre Aberlenc tells us about his passion for this micro-cosmos … Replay of July 13, 2021 Let’s explore the fabulous world of insects, more than a million known species and … Read more
Published on : 10/01/2022 – 16:10 How far will chemistry take us – and not just for the worse? To clean up soils, study cloud formation or reproduce organs in 3D: why chemistry has not ceased to amaze us? Chemistry: the science of matter and its transformations, which we love to hate (well, it’s ‘chemical’) … Read more