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Rebel with a cause
Sophie Germain’s name will soon be engraved on the Eiffel Tower. A brilliant self-taught mathematician, she had to fight throughout her life to gain…
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Maths is a piece of cake
Mixing cake batter, following a recipe, cutting a Yule log. These everyday gestures in cooking actually conceal complex concepts from mathematics and…
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The magic of sound and light physics
Maïmouna Bocoum, a physicist specialising in acousto-optics at the Paris-based Langevin Institute, develops imaging technologies for the early…
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Are video games to blame for today's violence?
At a time when the game “GTA VI”, whose launch has been postponed to November 2026, is drawing ever-greater attention in the media, a social…
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Maths beyond equations
You may be one of the many students for whom maths has been an ordeal, an uphill struggle. Yet, on closer inspection, a mysterious beauty sometimes…
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Listen! It’s the Week of Sound
During UNESCO’s Week of Sound, meet the scientists who are studying our sound environment…sometimes in very surprising ways.
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Engineering for digital transformation
Engineering creates the physical infrastructure (networks, communication systems, sensors, processors) that supports digital technology.
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Science one step ahead
Imagining and preparing for the future in order to guide research and public policy is the very purpose of foresight. A perilous exercise, scientists…
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Does AI care about us?
In the French-Belgian film "The Residence", recently released in a number of European countries and Brazil, a novelist interacts with an artificial…
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Stéphane Mallat, a pioneer bridging mathematics and computer science
By combining theoretical abstraction with practical impact, Stéphane Mallat has left a lasting mark on mathematics and computer science. From the…
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