Ming Clams, Glass Sponges: When Life Spans Millennia
Published on: March 14 , 2019
Hop aboard a time machine to catch a glimpse of a prehistoric mammoth or…
Raphaël, age 8: “What are chromosomes for?”
Published on: January 17 , 2019
Our body is made up of a collection of cells. Inside each one is a small “…
Toads, fish, and nematode worms: the space station's quirky menagerie
Published on: January 11 , 2019
They are called “model organisms”: flies, mice, zebrafish, frogs, or…
The Impact of Beads and Drops: Same Battle
Published on: September 28 , 2018
The impact of a drop on a surface has always fascinated people; even Leonardo da Vinci…
Did the Romans hunt whales in the Mediterranean?
Published on: July 11 , 2018
Commercial whaling, which until now has been considered to have begun with the…
Geology students, high school students… Let's all go to Iceland!
Published on: June 21 , 2018
Students in the master’s programs in “Earth Dynamics and Natural Hazards” and…
Science Makes Its Way into the World of Soccer
Published on: June 20 , 2018
Soccer is a high-intensity sport: generally, soccer players cover 8 to 12 km…
The Secrets of Tardigrades: These Cosmic Pokémon
Published on: June 8 , 2018
They are clawed and mythically beautiful. Tardigrades, microscopic invertebrates with…
Ticks and the Bacteria They Carry: A Dangerous Combination
Published on: June 6 , 2018
Ticks have a bad reputation, and that reputation is often well-deserved. These creatures…
Chronic Pain: Why It Persists, Even When the Cause Has Disappeared
Published on: April 18 , 2018
Certain types of pain, caused by an accident, a fall, or surgery, …
[LUM#7] Beauty Revealed
Published on: March 27 , 2018
Faces, landscapes, works of art… Both universal and relative, beauty holds many…
[LUM#6] Citizens and Scientists
Published on: October 3 , 2017
A citizen science project to measure air quality: when researchers and…
[LUM#6] Flowers at the Planet's Bedside
Published on: September 19 , 2017
To remediate contaminated soil and polluted water, Claude Grison and his ChimEco laboratory…
[LUM#6] After the Trauma
Published on: August 29 , 2017
Life sometimes throws brutal events our way… Far from being trivial, they lead to…
[LUM#6] The Restored Body
Published on: August 22 , 2017
Replacing damaged or diseased cells with healthy ones… That’s the principle…
[LUM#6] The Origins of Speech
Published on: July 25 , 2017
Baboons produce sounds that are quite similar to human vowels. And this is despite their…