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Seeing the very big picture of the French 2017 presidential election: Social media, fake news, and political communities
CNRS and EHESS researchers analyzed nearly 60 million political tweets posted during the 2017 presidential election in France. They noted that fake…
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Discovery of the earliest drawing
The oldest known abstract drawing, made with ocher, has been found in South Africa’s Blombos Cave—on the face of a flake of siliceous rock retrieved…
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Halting biodiversity loss : political actions are required, not additional scientific knowledge
Over 15 years, almost 13,000 scientific papers have been published in the leading conservation science journals. Yet biodiversity remains threatened…
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Clown fish : Whence the white stripes ?
Scientists from the Banyuls-sur-Mer Oceanographic Observatory (CNRS / Sorbonne University) along with colleagues from the University of Liege and the…
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Pathology and social interactions: Safety in numbers
What if social behavior affected the progression of even noncontagious diseases? This is precisely what has been demonstrated by French CNRS…
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2018–2022 expected to be abnormally hot years
This summer’s world-wide heatwave makes 2018 a particularly hot year. As will be the next few years, according to a study led by Florian Sévellec, a…
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Parker Solar Probe: French research takes off for the Sun
Parker Solar Probe will soon become the spacecraft to travel the closest to the Sun, by positioning itself a little over 6 million kilometers from…
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