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Essentially what that says, is, take a chimp brain foetally, and let it go two or three more rounds of divisions and you get a humain brain instead. And outcomes symphonies, and ideologies, and...
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Essentially what that says, is, take a chimp brain foetally, and let it go two or three more rounds of divisions and you get a humain brain instead. And outcomes symphonies, and ideologies, and...
Photo: Serge Brunier (TWAN), depuis la Tour Montparnasse. — Astronomy Picture of the Day. On les voyait clairement depuis ma terrasse avec Max, en attendant le début de Top Chef, je me demandais ce que...
In a study published online today in Science, the researchers show that in mice, exposure to microbes in early life can reduce the body’s inventory of invariant natural killer T (iNKT) cells, which help...
Sur 65 élèves, 51 élèves – soit plus des trois-quart – ont recopié à des degrés divers ce qu’ils trouvaient sur internet, sans recouper ou vérifier les informations ou réfléchir un tant soit peu...
I have difficult news. We’ve learned that Mike Daisey’s story about Apple in China – which we broadcast in January – contained significant fabrications. We’re retracting the story because we can’t vouch for its...
Non seulement ils font grossir, augmentent les risques cardio-vasculaires et sont liés à une augmentation des risques de cancer (du sein, par exemple), mais ils dégradent aussi notre humeur et la qualité de notre...
Gary Marchionini, the dean of the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said the fading of print encyclopedias was “an inexorable trend that will continue.”...
Their special effects can be realistic enough to make us feel like we are right there in the heart of the storm. But frequently, the heroes and heroines of these movies respond to disasters...
But: We live in a world of increasingly networked knowledge. And it’s a world that allows us to appreciate what has always been true: that new ideas are never sprung, fully formed, from the...
Alberto Giubilini, from Monash University, and Francesca Minerva, from the University of Melbourne, say a foetus and a newborn are equivalent in their lack of a sense of their own life and aspiration. They...