Category: Science

To help monitor fishing activities in the southern seas, researchers have relied on albatrosses. And it works. Over 800 million people worldwide depend on fishing for their livelihood. Unfortunately, these resources are increasingly threatened by illegal activities. Indeed, it is estimated today that illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing accounts for 12 to 28% of […]

The Chinese national space agency has just shared new photos on the other side of the moon, just over a year after the mission landed. On January 3, 2019, the Chinese mission Chang’e-4 made history by becoming the first in history to perform a soft moon landing on the far side of our satellite. The […]

New analyzes confirm that 2019 was the second hottest year on record since 1880. Our planet is evolving at an accelerated rate, both at sea and on land. A few days ago, a study showed that the temperatures of the world’s oceans had reached a record level in 2019. But we have also transpired a […]

As an intern you want to show the back of your tongue. You want to get the most out of your internship and show your supervisors that you are an asset to the team. And whether 17-year-old Wolf Cukier is an asset. The boy is doing an internship at NASA and was given the task […]

After saving his species from extinction, Diego, a giant Galapagos tortoise, will be released on his native island next March. About 50 years ago, only two males and 12 female giant tortoises (Chelonoidis hoodensi) were found on the island of Española, in the Galapagos. These reptiles were too few and too dispersed to ensure the […]

The TESS satellite recently discovered a terrestrial planet evolving in the habitable zone of its star. NASA’s exoplanet hunter – TESS – has been active since April. In orbit around the Earth, its main objective is to detect the presence of planets evolving around 200,000 nearby stars. Several worlds have been discovered in recent months, […]

New research suggests that ants on Kangaroo Island in South Australia use vertebrate urine to extract nitrogen from it. Three years ago, while camping on Kangaroo Island in South Australia, environmentalist Sophie Petit noticed something surprising. Near her tent, hundreds of ants were rushing to the very spot where she had urinated a few minutes […]

About 480 million animals may already have died in the fires that are ravaging in Australia. At least five million hectares have been destroyed by fire since September in Australia. The human toll is heavy – nine dead so far – but what about the animal world? Difficult to date to communicate exact figures, but […]

Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient city that represented a great center of one of the future first great civilizations in Africa. This is Beta Samati, part of the Kingdom of Aksum. A new ancient city The Kingdom of Axum was a very important state in the Horn of Africa. Covering the north of present-day Ethiopia, […]

Researchers have successfully extracted a complete human genome from a 5,700-year-old piece of chewing gum found in Denmark. One day in the Neolithic, a person threw his chewing gum made from birch tar in a shallow lagoon on the island of Lolland. Almost 6,000 years later, when construction work begins on the Fehmarn tunnel to […]