No one sleeps exactly the same way, and behind this variability lies more than just nighttime preferences. While some quickly fall into a restful sleep, others continue to have restless nights without understanding the cause. Long confined to a measurement of time spent in bed, research is now exploring the diversity of sleep profiles to … Read more
Some illnesses disrupt life as soon as they appear, without giving the body time to adapt. Type 1 diabetes is one of those which, within a few weeks, requires lifelong treatment. But researchers may have just shaken things up. For the first time, treatment of type 1 diabetes administered at diagnosis appears capable of slowing … Read more
[Un article de The Conversation écrit par Marie Chédru – Enseignante-Chercheuse, Sciences Humaines et Sociales, UniLaSalle & Mariia Ostapchuk – Enseignant-Chercheur en Sciences de Gestion, UniLaSalle] What does it mean to be intelligent? Pass a logic test? Solve an equation? Have a good memory? Intelligence has long been reduced to an IQ score. However, as early … Read more
The fight against malnutrition no longer comes down to a question of caloric intake or allocated budget. On a global scale, approaches are evolving, guided by a better understanding of the links between dietary diversity, local roots and sustainable health. In India, this development takes a unique form through school feeding, now seen as a … Read more
Human beings have always sought to soothe both their physical pain and their inner torment. However, advances in pharmacology have often separated these two dimensions, treating the body on one side and the mind on the other. Today, a substance from the fungal kingdom seems to be shaking up this boundary. Coming from hallucinogenic mushrooms, … Read more
Electricity is at the heart of global climate, economic and geopolitical issues. Its production represents nearly 40% of energy-related greenhouse gas emissions, mainly from coal. For decades, calls to decarbonize the sector have multiplied without the facts really following. But 2025 marks a turning point: for the first time, renewable energies generated more electricity than … Read more
European rural landscapes sometimes hide fragments of memory that neither the texts nor the traditions have been able to preserve. Where the words have disappeared, the earth retains the traces of ancient beliefs, of ritual gestures erased by the centuries. It is at the crossroads of archeology and the invisible that an unknown part of … Read more
[Un article de The Conversation écrit par Ted Powers – Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis] Called with the native name of the island, Rapa Nui, rapaamycin was initially used as immunosuppressant, in order to prevent the rejection of organ transplants and improve the success rate of the establishment of stents, small … Read more
Sleep has long been perceived as a neutral territory, devoid of bias, where everyone can recover their strength free from judgment. However, even in nocturnal intimacy, certain symptoms remain marked by stereotypes. Snoring remains associated with a virile, sonorous, almost caricatured image, far removed from what we imagine in a woman. This cultural prism has … Read more
Over the decades, rapid urbanization has reshaped the face of many African cities, attracting millions of people to rapidly expanding centers. But beneath this apparent dynamic, another movement, more discreet and more worrying, works the soil in depth. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, a long-ignored geomorphological phenomenon now threatens the balance of several metropolises. … Read more
