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Jupiter has more than 80 moons, the largest of which were discovered by Galileo. Many will be studied in depth by the scientific instruments of ESA’s JUICE mission. ESA, NASA, JPL, ATG, DLR, University of Arizona, University of Leicester

Scientists launch JUICE mission to explore Jupiter’s icy moons

One of Jupiter’s moons, Ganymede, could contain more water than the Earth.
‘Les Demoiselles d'Avignon’, by Pablo Picasso, 1907. MoMA / Wikimedia Commons

How even the young Pablo Picasso was already foreshadowing cubism

In various sketches and pencil sketches that Picasso made during his formative years, the most important plastic, perceptive, communicative and expressive revolution of the 20th century was being foreshadowed with absolute clarity: Cubism.
Croat leaders Jadranko Prlic, Bruno Stojic, Slobodan Praljak, Milivoj Petkovic, Valentin Coric and Berislav Pusic stand trial at the Hague in 2013. Creative Commons

I met 60 suspects of war crimes committed in Rwanda and Yugoslavia: what they had to say reveal cracks in our international justice system

The International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda (ICTR) and for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) have tried dozens of individuals. An investigation looks at how the accused experienced these trials.
Drawing of the premises of a data annotation company made with the AI Midjourney. Généré par MidJourney CC-BY-4.0

How low-paid workers in Madagascar power French tech’s AI ambitions

An investigation has revealed that French tech firms, seeking to create an AI “à la française”, have turned to one of the country’s former colonies, Madagascar, for low-cost labour.
“I’m just a bit tired, dad”. Shutterstock

Why children misbehave when they are tired

When we are tired, bored or something is bothering us, children and adults behave worse. All because the brain’s control tower, the prefrontal cortex, is not working at full capacity.
Watching this one-year old going to sleep might make you want to go to sleep too. Shutterstock

These neurons are the reason you yawn when you see others do it – and they could help us teach children more creatively too

Mirror neurons play a fundamental role in learning by imitation and observation or empathy. This is why we should take them into account when developing new educational tools.

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