Science & Tech

The human brain is made up of two distinct organs

In the brain, nervous structures that come from different progenitors coexist and have evolved independently: the discovery will be useful ...

An airport without air conditioning in the Tropics: the (won) bet of the island of Réunion

Built from scratch and inaugurated in 2024, the arrivals terminal of Roland Garros airport on the island of Réunion, near ...

When did the Earth become habitable? The turning point 4.3 billion years ago

The time window in which the Earth stopped being a meteorite hell has been identified, creating the first stable zones ...

Lung cancer: a rare genetic mutation increases the risk in those who have never smoked

There is an inherited variant that significantly increases the chance of adenocarcinoma even in those who have never smoked. A ...

Self-driving cars: what happens if a robotaxi gets a fine?

Between regulatory gaps and international experiments: this is what a self-driving car risks when it commits an infringement of the ...

There is new hope against hepatitis B: it’s called epigenetic editing

Silencing the gene activity of the hepatitis B virus appears to prevent it from reproducing: the approach could affect latent ...

A neural interface interprets gestures and words simultaneously

Classic brain-computer interfaces like Neuralink help paralyzed people communicate or move prosthetics just by thinking, but they can’t do both ...

A radio signal from an exoplanet has been detected for the first time: but aliens have nothing to do with it

Researchers managed to isolate the signal coming from the exoplanet Beta Pictoris b: however, it was not an extraterrestrial civilization ...

First autonomous coast-to-coast flight: an unmanned Cessna crosses the USA for over 5,000 km

A modified Cessna has completed a historic 5,150 km crossing across the United States, flying completely autonomously and paying homage ...