The recent discovery of a binary system containing an extremely rare object, the most massive black hole apart from SgrA ever detected in our Galaxy, calls into question the models for the formation of these bodies.

   On our planet, everything is interconnected, from terrestrial and marine ecosystems and biodiversity to ice sheets, rivers and oceans. But a recent report reveals that the dynamics of these different systems is being destabilised by human activities to such an extent that they are reaching points...

   The American Wild West, and especially Arizona, is not just cactuses, mountains and golden plains. Its dramatic landscapes are also audible. Anne Sourdril, a CNRS anthropologist, and her ecologist colleague Luc Barbaro have recorded the sounds of this ecosystem, so different from that in France.

   Research on tinnitus, a recent investigative field, is now enabling a clearer understanding of the causes and effects of this symptom that affects nearly eight million people in France.

   Could the power of the dollar be in decline As BRICS countries openly toy with the idea of creating a common currency, is the global system ready to adopt a new international money Physicists, who analysed the mathematical structure of trade, investigated.

   Winner of the Irène Joliot Curie Prize in the Young Woman Scientist category, this research chemist has developed the very first experimental structure of a human olfactory receptor.

   Galactic archaeology uses state of the art telescopes to reconstruct the history of our Milky Way, from the Big Bang to the present day.

   Building the petroleum society that is now the basis of our prosperity has come at a cost. Gwenola Le Naour and Renaud Bécot, co editors of a book on the topic, bring to light the destruction caused by the petrolisation of our planet, in France and around the globe.

   Initially trained in biology and chemistry, Stéphanie Descroix now works in a highly multidisciplinary research field, that of microfluidics, a technology that enables the creation of mini organs on chips. These tools offer vast perspectives, especially in oncology.

   Whether trainers or batteries, some multilayered objects still resist recycling... not for very long. This report takes you to the ICMCB laboratory where these various elements are separated using supercritical fluids, in the context of Global Recycling Day on March and France’s Recyclablity,...