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Scientists from the University of Cambridge recreated the face of a Neanderthal woman using a 3D printer. The woman, who was in her forties at the time of her death, must have been 1.52 meters tall. Archaeologists from the universities of Cambridge and Liverpool (England) managed to reconstruct in 3D the face of a Neanderthal … Read more
Jean-Baptiste Colbert was general administrator of finances under Louis XIV. from September 1661 to September 1683. But who was there before him? And after? Colbert was also custodian of the royal buildings and “captain of the hunts of the captain of the election of Tonnerre, Joigny and Saint-Florentin and the county of Auxerre”. He had … Read more
About 624,000 men and 31,000 women are affected, according to a study published Tuesday by Public Health France. Their alcohol consumption exceeds 10 drinks per week. More than 650,000 adults in mainland France, mainly men, suffer from high blood pressure due to alcohol consumption exceeding an average of 10 drinks per week, according to a … Read more
These two soccer players run, walk, go around opponents, fall, get up, shoot and score goals. Nothing very original, except that they are 51 cm tall and 3.5 kg mini-robots from Robotis, equipped with 20 joints and perfectly autonomous. The machines were trained to play soccer by a team at Google Deepmind using a … Read more
“Very surprised!” Rémi Quirion, Science Leader of Quebec and President International Network for Government Scientific Advisory (INGSA) (read box), admits the surprise he felt a few years ago, during his first meeting with Paul Kagame, the President of Rwanda, when the latter told him “you want to build expertise in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of … Read more
This is the kind of subject that fuels academic debate competitions in the United States: “can online learning replace face-to-face learning with equal effectiveness?”, “does social media make people stupid?”, “should the United States provide military aid to Ukraine in its war with Russia ?” Participants have four minutes to present their position, three minutes … Read more
The engineer received her astronaut qualification from the European Space Agency after basic training in Cologne, Germany. A little closer to the stars. French astronaut Sophie Adenot received her diploma from the ESA Class of 2022 this Monday, April 22 at the European Astronaut Center in Cologne, Germany to applause Sophie Adenot was also … Read more
According to a report by the European Court of Auditors the European Union’s target of zero greenhouse gas emissions for new cars from 2035 will be difficult to achieve because three necessary conditions are not met. “Most of the current thermal cars still emit the same amount of CO2 12 years ago” The first … Read more
Fox remains discovered in a human burial site in Argentina dating back 1,500 years raise the possibility that the animal may have been kept as a pet by these hunter-gatherer communities. A fox, man’s best friend? The bones of a now-extinct species of fox have been discovered alongside human remains in a necropolis in Patagonia, … Read more
In 2018, he became the first man in the world to undergo a second face transplant. His doctor described him as “exhausted”. Jérôme Hamon, the first man in the world to undergo two face transplants in 2010 and 2018 and thus have three different faces in his lifetime, died this week at the age of … Read more