In a sector where competition is played out with attractive tenders and cascading gigas, the rules change quickly, sometimes without making any noise. This is precisely what happened at Free, whose subscribers have recently discovered a new pricing deal. Freebox termination costs, long contained at a symbolic level, have an increase that no longer distinguishes … Read more
[Un article de The Conversation écrit par Nicolas Rascovan – Chercheur à l”Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité – Charlotte Avanzi – Assistant Professor, Colorado State University – et Maria Lopopolo – Chercheur à l’Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité] Leper is an ancient chronic disease that manifests itself in lesions of the skin, peripheral nerves, the mucous membrane … Read more
In the Peten region, north of Guatemala, the jungle still hides many traces of the first Mayan cities, often invisible to the naked eye. These forgotten sites provide essential information on the beginnings of a complex civilization that developed long before the major metropolises of the classical era. Recently, Guatemah and Slovak archaeologists have uncovered … Read more
Thousands of kilometers from their ancestral lands, the Mayan languages invite themselves in the streets of Oakland, the audience rooms of San Francisco and the radio waves of California. Worn by migratory waves from southern Mexico and Guatemala since the 1990s, they have been making their way in the American urban fabric, far from the … Read more
From turquoise bays from Sunshine Coast to the waves of Gold Coast, the Queensland beaches are among the most popular in Australia. But behind this postcard hides a more disturbing reality. For several years, shark attacks have been supplying the fear of bathers and local authorities. Faced with this growing pressure, a new anti-resistant plan … Read more
The megalodon, a fallen star of the prehistoric ocean With its 20 meters long estimated and its teeth over 15 centimeters, Otodus megalodon remained for a long time the archetype of the sailor superpredator. A beast that we readily imagined tracking the primitive whales in the warm waters of Miocene, reigning without sharing on the … Read more
When a public building collapses, we often speak of losses. In Sisak, in Croatia, the opposite happened. Following the 2020 earthquake, renovation work in the town hall brought to light a perfectly preserved Roman theater, buried for almost two millennia. This unexpected vestige redraws the map of the old Siscia, revealing its scope, its complexity … Read more
Since space, the earth reveals shows that the human eye cannot grasp from the ground. Among them, lightnings seen from space fascinate as much as they intrigue. When a thunderstorm breaks out under the space station, the night atmosphere is briefly ignited, offering astronauts a tiny window to capture the moment. At 420 kilometers above … Read more
Unicorns, when you quote this word, you quickly have the image of this white horse with a spiral horn on the forehead. A fantastic animal that populates our tales, our films and our imagination. It is true that there is very little chance of meeting a horn horse … However, unicorns, we can see on … Read more
Why does helium-3 fascinate scientists so much? On earth, this isotope of helium is extremely rare. But on the Moon, it could be in abundance, trapped in the upper layer of the lunar soil after billions of years of exposure to solar wind. A simple handful of regolith could contain exploitable quantities of helium-3, enough … Read more
