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La sélection scientifique de la semaine (numéro 98)

vendredi 29 novembre 2013 par Pierre Barthélémy — Actualité, Environnement, Improbablologie, Science, Sélection, Antibiotiques, Archéologie, Champ magnétique, Champignons, Chromosome Y, Diabète, Espace, Hémophilie, Jupiter, Lune, Maladie d'Alzheimer, Médicaments, OGM, Police scientifique, Robots, Thérapie génique, Virus du sida

Question à suspense : après son passage au plus près du Soleil, que reste-t-il de la comète ISON, qui devait être la "comète du siècle" ? Réponse au cours des heures qui viennent... (en anglais) - Dotée de trois satellites, la mission européenne … Continuer la lecture (...)

Passeur de sciences

« Passeur de sciences » a deux ans

mercredi 27 novembre 2013 par Pierre Barthélémy — Journalisme scientifique, Science, Weblogs, Blog, Passeur de Sciences

Voilà, une deuxième boucle est bouclée. Lancé fin novembre 2011, "Passeur de sciences" fête ses deux ans. Tout comme l'an passé, c'est le moment du bilan. Au cours des douze derniers mois, j'ai publié un peu plus de 140 billets … Continuer la lecture (...)

Passeur de sciences

Nothing To Gobble At: Social Cognition in Turkeys

mercredi 27 novembre 2013 — Evolution,Mind & Brain

“For the Truth the Turkey is in Comparison a much more respectable Bird and withal a true original Native of America…” wrote Ben Franklin in a 1784 letter to his daughter.... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Thanksgiving and the Myth of the Savage Savage

mercredi 27 novembre 2013 — Evolution,Health,More Science

The approach of Thanksgiving, that quintessential American holiday, has me brooding over recent scientific portrayals of Native Americans as bellicose brutes.* When I was in grade school, my... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

How China's Pet Dogs Might Save Wild Tigers

mardi 26 novembre 2013 — Energy & Sustainability,Evolution,Health,More Science

A tiger mulls life at the Shanghai Zoo. (C) J. Patrick Fischer On the streets of Beijing, little old ladies coax even littler dogs to do their business. Some even bear the little plastic bags ... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

The golden age of computational materials science gives me a disturbing feeling of d j vu

mardi 26 novembre 2013 — Energy & Sustainability,Evolution,Technology,More Science

Graphene, a wonder material which was made by scientists using a version of Scotch tape (Image: Wikipedia) I was a mere toddler in the early 1980s when they announced the “golden age of... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Have We Saved the Sharks?

mardi 26 novembre 2013 — Evolution,Environment,Society & Policy,Ecology,More Science,Energy & Sustainability,Biology,Everyday Science

“In China victory for wildlife conservation as citizens persuaded to give up shark fin soup.” This October 19 headline in the Washington Post was one that marine... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Mushrooms Create Their Own Breeze

mardi 26 novembre 2013 — More Science,Physics,Everyday Science,Ecology,More Science,Evolution,Evolutionary Biology,Biology

Mushrooms must scatter their spores to make little mushrooms. And we've long assumed that they rely on a friendly breeze for spore spreading. But a new study shows that mushrooms can create their... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Good Microbes make Good Pets

mardi 26 novembre 2013 — Energy & Sustainability,Mind & Brain,Space,More Science,Evolution,Health,Technology

THIS is good scicomm. Why? Well, for many reasons – good writing, good sound, good editing – but by far the most apparent, the reason most people will sit up and take note is because of... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

`Forest Giraffe' Now Endangered: Okapi Populations Drop 50 Percent in 18 Years

lundi 25 novembre 2013 — Energy & Sustainability,More Science,Evolution

Better late than never? This week the International Union for Conservation of Natural Resources, which publishes the IUCN Red List of threatened species, listed the rare and iconic okapi ( Okapia... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American