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Climate Change or Pure Oversight? Unexpected Baby Whales Are Born in Unlikely Places

Along the vast southern ribs, the humpback whales further punctuate the seasons cycle by their spectacular migrations. Known to give birth in the hot northern waters, they nevertheless seem to upset the established rules. In recent years, the birth of humpback whales has been documented much further south than expected, even in the temperate waters … Read more

Resistant, Mutant, Promising: Discovery of an ‘Unknown’ Microbe on the Chinese Space Station

A clandestine passenger at 400 km altitude It all started in May 2023, when the crew of the Shenzhou-15 mission, orbit for six months aboard Tiangong, takes microbial samples from the internal surfaces of the station. The goal: mapping and monitoring microorganisms present in their confined environment. The samples are carefully frozen, brought back to … Read more

Severe Thunderstorms: The Saragossa Supercell Issues a Climate Alert for the Iberian Peninsula

On the vast trays of the Iberian Peninsula, climatic contrasts have been accentuated for several years, alternating between prolonged droughts and brutal precipitation. Within this growing instability, a rare and spectacular meteorological phenomenon recently struck the province of Zaragoza. The supercellular storm that fell on the region surprised by its power, its rotating structure and … Read more

Reviving the Terracotta Army of Cyprus: Navigating Heritage Justice and Colonial Legacy

At the crossroads of Mediterranean history and contemporary heritage tensions, a major discovery of the 20th century remains largely unknown to the general public: that of more than 2,000 terracotta statues uncovered in 1929 in the village of Agia Eirini, northwest of Cyprus. These figurines, dated from the 7th and life BC. AD, constitute the … Read more