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Topless sunbathing remains a daring act even for European women

Topless sunbathing remains a daring act even for European women

Thelma Bacon, Université d'Angers

Why Africa’s slums are among the world’s most vibrant business hotspots

Why Africa’s slums are among the world’s most vibrant business hotspots

Philip O'Donnell, Dublin City University; Colm O'Gorman, Dublin City University; Eric Clinton, Dublin City University et Margot Leger, Utrecht University

The problems with climate scenarios, and how to fix them

The problems with climate scenarios, and how to fix them

Riccardo Rebonato, EDHEC Business School

Green northern lights in the night sky.

How solar storms play havoc with our lives

Elisa Robert, Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA) et Mathieu Barthélemy, Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)

Maritime commerce and climate change: how effective would a carbon tax on shipping be?

Maritime commerce and climate change: how effective would a carbon tax on shipping be?

Vianney Dequiedt, Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA); Audrey-Anne de Ubeda et Édouard Mien, Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA)

Does hosting the Olympics, the World Cup or other major sports events really pay off?

Does hosting the Olympics, the World Cup or other major sports events really pay off?

Ivan Savin, ESCP Business School

Pink passion: rosé on the rise as millennials dictate new wine codes

Richard C. Delerins, ESSEC

Pink passion: rosé on the rise as millennials dictate new wine codes
Where do side stitches come from?

Clément Naveilhan, Université Côte d’Azur et François Dernoncourt, Université Côte d’Azur

Illustration d'un homme souffrant d'un point de côté.
Grand Slam tennis: how economics shed light on champions’ performances

François Lévêque, Mines Paris - PSL

Grand Slam tennis: how economics shed light on champions’ performances
ChatGPT in education: breakthrough or disruptive innovation?

Fanny Verrax, EM Lyon Business School et François Scheid, EM Lyon Business School

ChatGPT in education: breakthrough or disruptive innovation?

Politics

Pro-Russian breakaway region Transnistria shows limits of domino theory in international relations

Florent Parmentier, Sciences Po

Une assemblée de personnes brandissent leur mandat électoral
#MeTooGarçons: ‘In France, 80% of violent acts against men affect those under 18’

Lucie Wicky, Ined (Institut national d'études démographiques)

#MeTooGarçons: ‘In France, 80% of violent acts against men affect those under 18’
Why do millions of Americans believe the 2020 presidential election was ‘stolen’ from Donald Trump?

Jérôme Viala-Gaudefroy, CY Cergy Paris Université

Why do millions of Americans believe the 2020 presidential election was ‘stolen’ from Donald Trump?
Israel-Hamas War: What political consequences for Joe Biden?

Jérôme Viala-Gaudefroy, CY Cergy Paris Université

Israel-Hamas War: What political consequences for Joe Biden?

Life and art

Burnt out? This is how your employer can help you return to work for the better

Burnt out? This is how your employer can help you return to work for the better

Lode Godderis, KU Leuven

Have smartphones killed the art of conversation?

David Le Breton, Université de Strasbourg

Have smartphones killed the art of conversation?
Do subtitled films really help you learn languages?

Xavier Aparicio, Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne (UPEC)

Do subtitled films really help you learn languages?
Why retranslate the literary classics?

Enrico Monti, Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA)

Retranslated classics
Dating apps: marketing experts’ research reveals pitfalls to look out for, and tactics for success

Alisa Minina Jeunemaître, EM Lyon Business School; Jamie Smith, ISC Paris Business School et Stefania Masè, IPAG Business School

Man using online dating app.
Meet Paris’ black dandies, the Sapeurs

Meet Paris’ black dandies, the Sapeurs

Daouda Coulibaly, EDC Paris Business School

Environment

Bananes

How the genome diversity of major crops tells the story of their evolution

Jean Christophe Glaszmann, Cirad; Claire Billot, Cirad et Claire Lanaud, Cirad

Faced with dwindling bee colonies, scientists are arming queens with robots and smart hives

Faced with dwindling bee colonies, scientists are arming queens with robots and smart hives

Farshad Arvin, Durham University; Martin Stefanec, University of Graz et Tomas Krajnik, Czech Technical University

Climate: can young activists still sway the outcome of COP negotiations?

Laura Bullon-Cassis, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)

Climate: can young activists still sway the outcome of COP negotiations?
Why the Pyrenees’ mountain lakes are turning green

Dirk S. Schmeller, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)

aerial view of a green mountain lake
Seeing green: some older-car owners show that there’s more than one way of being eco-friendly

Gaëtan Mangin, Université de Bourgogne

Seeing green: some older-car owners show that there’s more than one way of being eco-friendly
How industrial agriculture is disturbing the nitrogen cycle and undermining conditions for life on Earth

Gilles Billen, Sorbonne Université

Un immense champ où s'affaire une vingtaine de moissonneuses batteuses

Life in the Anthropocene

Earth in the Anthropocene: how did we get here? Can we limit the damage?

Victor Court, Université Paris Cité

Une femme faisant face à la mer
How agriculture can make the most of one of the world’s biggest carbon stocks, soil

Rémi Cardinael, Cirad; Armwell Shumba, University of Zimbabwe et Vira Leng, Université de Montpellier

Farmer standing in the fields next to plants.
Measuring the invisible: the tough job of calculating the carbon stocks and fluxes of a forest

Nicolas Barbier, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD); Bonaventure Sonké, Université de Yaounde 1; Le Bienfaiteur Sagang, University of California, Los Angeles; Pierre Ploton, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD) et Stéphane Momo Takoudjou, Université de Liège

Measuring the invisible: the tough job of calculating the carbon stocks and fluxes of a forest
‘Legal animism’: when a river or even nature itself goes to court

Diego Landivar, ESC Clermont Business School

Aerial view of a waterfall in the valley of Vilcabamba, Ecuador, where an historic lawsuit was won by a river in 2011.

Science and tech

The summit of Olympus Mons on Mars, with frozen water visible in the crater.

Water frost on Mars: on the top of immense volcanoes, a briefly icy landscape

Frédéric Schmidt, Université Paris-Saclay et Adomas Valantinas, Brown University

Euclid telescope: A scientist tells us of his quest to understand the nature of dark matter and dark energy

Euclid telescope: A scientist tells us of his quest to understand the nature of dark matter and dark energy

Henk Hoekstra, Leiden University

Are crows really that clever?

Mélissa Berthet, University of Zurich et Sonya Kaiser, Sorbonne Université

A crow stands on a fence post
Is scientific discovery driven by great individuals or by great teams?

Denisa Mindruta, HEC Paris Business School

Equipe de recherche
Could tardigrades have colonized the Moon?

Laurent Palka, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (MNHN)

Illustration of a tardigrade in front of the Moon.
The sticking point: why physicists are still struggling to understand ice’s capacity to adhere and become slippery

Philippe Brunet, Université Paris Cité et Pierre-Brice Bintein, Université Paris Cité

Un homme tient un bloc de glace.

Health

Could protecting our proteins help us prevent ageing?

Miroslav Radman, Inserm

An elderly woman smiling
How air pollution can affect athletes

Valérie Bougault, Université Côte d’Azur

While jogging through town, a young woman rests with her hands on her knees and a protective mask over her face.
Walking or running: for the same distance, which consumes more energy?

Clément Lemineur, Université Côte d’Azur; Clément Naveilhan, Université Côte d’Azur et François Dernoncourt, Université Côte d’Azur

Illustration of two silhouettes, one walking, the other running.
Spa holidays in France: ‘taking the waters’ with a doctor’s prescription

Mazarine Wairy Dupuich, Université de Poitiers

Spa holidays in France: ‘taking the waters’ with a doctor’s prescription

Economics and business

The close links between the worlds of business and sport

The close links between the worlds of business and sport

Fiammetta Cascioli Karivalis, Kedge Business School

Financial sanctions: banks’ reactions depend on their location, research reveals

Matthias Efing, HEC Paris Business School

Financial sanctions: banks’ reactions depend on their location, research reveals
Mumpreneurs: a growing entrepreneurial force in Chinese society

Lisa Xiong, EM Lyon Business School

Mumpreneurs: a growing entrepreneurial force in Chinese society
Sustainability schemes deployed by business most often ineffective, research reveals

Nancy E. Landrum, Ph.D.

Sustainability schemes deployed by business most often ineffective, research reveals
Chinese acquisitions in the Bordeaux vineyards: have their new owners really been neglecting them?

Alexandre Bohas, ESSCA School of Management et Pierre-Xavier Meschi, IAE Aix-Marseille Graduate School of Management – Aix-Marseille Université

Chinese acquisitions in the Bordeaux vineyards: have their new owners really been neglecting them?
Climate disclosures: corporations underprepared for tighter new standards, study of 100 companies reveals

Climate disclosures: corporations underprepared for tighter new standards, study of 100 companies reveals

Diogenis Baboukardos, Audencia; Evangelos Seretis, University of Glasgow; Fanis Tsoligkas, University of Bath; Ioannis Tsalavoutas, University of Glasgow et Richard Slack, Durham University

Education

Un enfant tient un globe terrestre.

How can a baby learn two languages at the same time?

Cameron Morin, ENS de Lyon

A bright-eyed little boy touches a globe as two other children watch on

Is Montessori education all it’s cracked up to be? What science says

Alison Demangeon, Université de Lorraine et Youssef Tazouti, Université de Lorraine

From our archives

Woman standing by a swimming pool.

‘Bluewashing’: how ecotourism can be used against indigenous communities

Michelle Mielly, Grenoble École de Management (GEM)

Un bateau glissant sur une mer d’huile dans laquelle se reflète le ciel étoilé

The study of dreams: scientists uncover new communication channels with dreamers

Başak Türker, Institut du Cerveau (ICM) et Delphine Oudiette, Inserm

Photo de d'une tasse de café.

Job hunting: why taking regular breaks is vital for your well-being and success

Serge da Motta Veiga, Neoma Business School

How science saved the ozone layer

Cathy Clerbaux, Sorbonne Université

Image showing ozone concentration
Why AI software ‘softening’ accents is problematic

Grégory Miras, Université de Lorraine

Why AI software ‘softening’ accents is problematic
AI in the developing world: how ‘tiny machine learning’ can have a big impact

Marco Zennaro, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP); Brian Plancher, Barnard College; Matthew Stewart, Harvard University et Vijay Janapa Reddi, Harvard University

AI in the developing world: how ‘tiny machine learning’ can have a big impact
The ‘Curse of Ham’: how people of faith used a story in Genesis to justify slavery

Paul Ham, Sciences Po

The ‘Curse of Ham’: how people of faith used a story in Genesis to justify slavery
The zaï technique: how farmers in the Sahel grow crops with little to no water

The zaï technique: how farmers in the Sahel grow crops with little to no water

Raphaël Belmin, Cirad; Hamado Sawadogo, Institut de l'environnement et des recherches agricoles (INERA) et Moussa N'Dienor, Institut sénégalais de recherches agricoles (ISRA)

Debate: The amorality of ‘Oppenheimer’

Paul Ham, Sciences Po

Debate: The amorality of ‘Oppenheimer’
‘Transformative change’: idea will be key in fight for climate and wildlife

Dirk S. Schmeller, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)

‘Transformative change’: idea will be key in fight for climate and wildlife
Discovering the world of dolphins and their three ‘super senses’

Juliana López Marulanda, Université Paris Nanterre – Université Paris Lumières

Two dolphins swimming side by side.