Solar Impulse, le célébre avion solaire suisse, vole désormais pour l’armée américaine (pour lui permettre de muscler son programme sur les drones en haute altitude) - par @odessib.bsky.social www.rts.ch/info/science...

This is going to make you feel very small. Fly away from the surface of Earth, past the Sun, out of the Solar System, through the closest stars, leave the Milky Way, to the cosmic web of galaxies in the nearby Universe.

Brian Cox ~ The purpose of life?

With this simple but terrible video, anyone easily understands what’s happening in LA, and why the Fire Dept struggles to fight the fire: the Santa Ana winds blowing like crazy on a land left with almost no rain since November, after a very hot Summer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qjT...

Extraire, de la calotte polaire de l’ #Antarctique, de la glace vieille d’1,2 million d’années pour mieux prévoir l’évolution du climat futur: c’est l’exploit de scientifiques du consortium européen Beyond #EPICA, avec forte participation de @unibern.bsky.social. Sur RTS : www.rts.ch/info/science...

Why don’t new memories overwrite old ones? It appears that this is because the brain processes new and old memories in separate phases of sleep, which might prevent mixing between the two. Full details in this nature paper www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Five years ago some infectious diseases experts were starting to grasp that the world was watching the emergence of a new pandemic. #Covid was a painful experience that should have taught us a lot about pandemic preparedness. But we seem to be unwilling to learn. www.statnews.com/2025/01/06/c...

L’IPBES a publié un rapport sur les interactions entre biodiversité, eau, alimentation, santé et changement climatique. Ces crises mondiales sont interconnectées : on ne peut s’attaquer à l’une sans penser aux autres. Lire l'article : reporterre.net/Climat-natur...

It took four days from submission to publication, and nearly five years from publication to retraction. After campaigning by many, many scientists, and an investigation by Elsevier, an infamous paper on hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 treatment has been retracted. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

I also want to break free!!! bas-newsroom.prgloo.com/news/worlds-... @bas.ac.uk

Have a look! Wonders of nature: www.nature.com/immersive/d4... Just wonderful!

Switzerland 🇨🇭 becomes a gravity center for research in #AI. After #OpenAI and #Google in Zurich, #Apple deploys itself at #EPFL in Lausanne. Samy Bengio, its director for research in AI has been named professor, and will co-lead a group on reasoning: www.rts.ch/play/tv/redi...

Une histoire fantastique, même fantasmagorique: celle de #CampCentury, une base américaine de missiles nucléaires construite dans la glace du Groenland, qui vient d'être redécouverte par hasard! Par des glaciologues mesurant la calotte. Mon récit sur @RTS: www.rts.ch/info/monde/2...