You have surely heard the sentence that “Oil is made up of dinosaurs liquefied bones”. And if you were quite small, you surely believed it and you continued to transmit this idea to the young generations and so on. However, all this is false!
[Un article de The Conversation écrit par Yvonne Ryan – Professeur associé en sciences de l”environnement, Université de Limerick] Electric bikes make cycling easier, faster and more accessible. They already play an important role in reducing the environmental impact of transport, especially when they replace a individual car trip. But when you put an electric bike … Read more
On the occasion of the release of Dracula by Luc Besson on July 30, the interest in the famous vampire returns to the front of the stage. However, behind this character who has become a symbol of popular culture, hides an Irish writer whose journey remains largely unknown. Bram Stoker, author of the novel published … Read more
[Cet article a initialement été publié le 14 mai 2024] An intriguing “hand of God” At the end of October, NASA celebrated Halloween in its own way by publishing the image of a “ghostly cosmic hand”. It was actually a neutron star, the remains of a giant star which collapsed on itself after consuming its … Read more
[Cet article a initialement été publié le 27 avril 2024] At the beginning of March, a probe had immortalized an object that looks like a surfboard above the moon. It was actually a Korean spacecraft. This time, it is the European probes Mars Express and Exomars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) who sent clichés of “spiders” … Read more
[Article déjà publié le 29 août 2024] On July 9, 2024, Ariane 6 made her very first flight and gave Europe the opportunity to come back to the front of the international space scene. But let's go back a little and leave the heavens to go to sea and more precisely in the Atlantic Ocean. … Read more
[Un article de The Conversation écrit par Cyril Mergny – Chercheur postdoctoral, Université Paris-Saclay – & Frédéric Schmidt – Professeur, Planétologie, Université Paris-Saclay]
At the dawn of the 1st century, the Roman Empire seemed invincible. His legions, disciplined and feared, had submitted territories ranging from the Mediterranean to the Channel. However, during the summer of the year 9, an ambush in the heart of the Teutobourg forest upset this conquering momentum. Three whole legions were destroyed by Germanic … Read more
[Cet article a initialement été publié le 12 octobre 2024]
[Cet article a initialement été publié le 28 mars 2024] The Amazons, these enigmatic warriors of ancient Greece, described by Homer and immortalized in epics, have long oscillated between myth and possible historicity. Recently, excavations led by a team led by historian Betany Hughes in Azerbaijan have uncovered burials dating from the Bronze Age. These … Read more
