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#MeTooGarçons: ‘In France, 80% of violent acts against men affect those under 18’

#MeTooGarçons: ‘In France, 80% of violent acts against men affect those under 18’

Lucie Wicky, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED)

What makes voatsiperifery the world’s best pepper

Jérôme Queste, Cirad et Harizoly Razafimandimby, FOFIFA

Grappes de voatsiperifery frais avant transformation dans la main d’un récolteur
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?
From Twitter to X: one year on, are white supremacists back?

Sarah Rodriguez-Louette, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3 et Divina Frau-Meigs, Auteurs historiques The Conversation France

Photo of a phone with a tweet from Elon Musk: "the bird is freed".

Life and art

‘Pretty privilege’: attractive people considered more trustworthy, research confirms

‘Pretty privilege’: attractive people considered more trustworthy, research confirms

Astrid Hopfensitz, EM Lyon Business School

Debate: The amorality of ‘Oppenheimer’

Paul Ham, Sciences Po

Debate: The amorality of ‘Oppenheimer’
Why retranslate the literary classics?

Enrico Monti, Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA)

Retranslated classics
Mental workload: how can we prevent our brains from overheating?

Stéphane Perrey, Université de Montpellier

Une jeune femme assise à un bureau, devant un ordinateur portable, consulte son téléphone et écrit en même-temps dans un carnet.
How witches went on to become modern feminist icons

Maxime Gelly-Perbellini, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)

Femmes accusées d'être sorcières brûlées sur le bûcher à Derenburg en 1555

Environment

Une femme faisant face à la mer

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

Victor Court, Université Paris Cité

‘Transformative change’: idea will be key in fight for climate and wildlife

‘Transformative change’: idea will be key in fight for climate and wildlife

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

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

Michelle Mielly, Grenoble École de Management (GEM)

Woman standing by a swimming pool.
The deep Mediterraneen: a temporary refuge for gorgonian coral forests facing marine heat waves

Lorenzo Bramanti, Sorbonne Université

The deep Mediterraneen: a temporary refuge for gorgonian coral forests facing marine heat waves
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)

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

Life in the Anthropocene

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
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

Illustration of a tardigrade in front of the Moon.

Could tardigrades have colonized the Moon?

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

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
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.
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

Health

An elderly woman smiling

Could protecting our proteins help us prevent ageing?

Miroslav Radman, Inserm

Economics and business

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

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

Matthias Efing, HEC Paris Business School

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

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

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

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

Training to reduce cognitive bias may improve decision making after all

Training to reduce cognitive bias may improve decision making after all

Anne-Laure Sellier, HEC Paris Business School; Carey K. Morewedge, Boston University et Irene Scopelliti, City, University of London