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An increasing number of patients hospitalized for severe abdominal pain has highlighted a phenomenon that the British health authorities are now taking very seriously. Since the beginning of 2025, several hundred cases of pancreatitis have been reported in people who used injectable treatments facilitating weight loss. These drugs, long hailed for their effectiveness, are today … Read more

[Un article de The Conversation écrit par Pascale Ezan – professeur des universités – comportements de consommation – alimentation – réseaux sociaux, Université Le Havre Normandie – Emilie Hoëllard – Maître de conférences en sciences de gestion, Université Le Havre Normandie]

In the dark depths of the Moluccas archipelago, a fish that was forever believed to be relegated to the archives of evolution resurfaced. The coelacanth, long considered disappeared, always evolves discreetly in the underwater faults of Indonesia. Observed alive at more than 140 meters deep, this animal with a prehistoric look embodies a form of … Read more

England is full of sites where the traces of past civilizations are still reflecting under the surface of the fields. Each year, excavations reveal clues to the way in which Celts and Romans have coexisted, fought or merged over the centuries. Between the Iron Age and the Roman Conquest, the Cotswolds region was the scene … Read more

Under the wet meadows in the north of England, archaeological excavations reveal unexpected fragments of the Roman presence. In Magna, a Hadrian wall fort, researchers have uncovered 32 remarkably well -preserved leather shoes, many of which reach extraordinary dimensions for the time. These artifacts, dated nearly two millennia, testify to the diversity of individuals who … Read more

[Un article de The Conversation écrit par Maoli Duan – Associate Professor, Senior Consultant, Karolinska Institutet] It is estimated that nearly 3 in 1,000 newborns have a unilateral or bilateral hearing loss when they come to the world. If the installation of cochlear implants can improve the situation of these children, it is at the cost of … Read more

At the time when the first locomotives crisscrossed Europe and the combustion engine had just been invented, the atmosphere already reacted to human activity. Long before the major conferences on the climate or modern temperature readings, signs of imbalance began to register in the high layers of air. Thanks to the current tools, researchers retraced … Read more

On a simple sheet placed flat, a needle that turns on itself does not seem to upset anything. However, behind this elementary movement hides one of the most feared puzzles of modern mathematics. For more than a century, Kakeya's conjecture has been challenging researchers and intuitions, asking an apparently banal question but with dizzying ramifications. … Read more

Under the peaceful surface of an ancient German lake, archaeologists have uncovered the vestiges of a human activity of unexpected complexity. There, between the sediments of Neumark-Nord, accumulate thousands of broken bones, witnesses of meticulous know-how deployed 125,000 years ago. These fragments tell a story of survival and precision, in which the fatty bone marrow … Read more

[Article initialement publié en avril 2024] Profile of the species With a size up to 20 meters long, the whale shark (Rhincodon Typus) is considered to be the longest current shark. If we can use the current term, it is because the megalodon was the same size during his lifetime, between 23 and 3.6 million … Read more