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Prostate Cancer: Understanding Joe Biden’s Aggressive Form

[Un article de The Conversation écrit par Justin Stebbing – Professeur de sciences biomédicales, Université Anglia Ruskin] Recently diagnosed prostate cancer of a particularly aggressive form. The disease has already reached bones, an evolution that marks a major degradation of the situation. Joe Biden resolved to consult due to a worsening of the urinary disorders he … Read more

What Genetics Reveals About the Height Differences Between Men and Women

From always, the size differences between men and women have struck by their constancy and their magnitude through human populations. Far from being dictated only by hormones or the environment, these deviations also find their origin in a more discreet but formidably effective genetic mechanics. At the center of this architecture, a gene involved in … Read more

AI in Cinema: From “2001: A Space Odyssey” to “Mission Impossible” – 60 Years of Technological Anxiety

[Un article de The Conversation écrit par Mehdi Achouche – Maître de conférences en cinéma anglophone et études américaines, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord ] Since its beginnings, but what can more rigorously be qualified as artificial intelligence (IA) is a theme that dates from the 1960s. While robots and androids are easily used as the metaphor of … Read more