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Alongside with milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, wheat, soybeans and fish, shellfish are one of the eight allergens that account for 90% of food-related allergic reactions. What if a vaccine could exist?
In the fight against climate change, cities are now seen as having a major role to play. An ongoing study examines the effectiveness of the adaptation and mitigation plans of 126 coastal cities.
Are the stacks of books in your library still alive? Why keep them if they are not? Why does our attachment to the printed word not waver in the face of its digital counterpart?
Our everyday lives are full of decision dilemmas. To understand why we make particular choices, scientists investigate how our brain deals with uncertainty.
There’s an orderly fashion to so-called disruptive “manifestations”, as they’re called in French. But the “gilets jaunes” didn’t follow the rules. So who exactly broke the rules?
Increase of carbon dioxide in the ocean affects the way fish detect predators, mates or food and could threaten not only individual fish but entire populations.
A scientific question fascinates experts : under which conditions can bird flu virus be transmitted to humans by aerial particles, and what will be the consequences for those who aren’t immune?
Tackling climate change in African cities is difficult but multiple perspectives from all over the continent can help.
The question is no longer how to repel all threats. Instead, it’s how can we organise ourselves as a society to remain ourselves in the face of these multiple threats.
Paradoxically, it is only when I disappear into the digital crowd that my personal data becomes interesting for digital merchants.
Is the impact of refugees in the host country’s economy positive or negative? The real question is really quite different: can the economy really do without refugees?
Although it is unlikely to find a scenario similar to that of the major flood of 1910, France’s national flood forecasting network is closely monitoring the level of the Seine.
In South Africa, Cape Town fears “Day Zero”, when the city will have to ration water drastically. The phenomenon threatens other cities as well but solutions exist.
Weakening the institutional as well as the symbolic functioning of the rule of law has the consequence of introducing new “risks”, and thus creating more insecurity.
Aviation safety has much to gain from neuroscience: studying how our brains become “deaf” to alarms allows us to adapt the pilot’s flight instruments.
Namibia has followed a community based water management strategy.
Gold can be used to make jewelry, but also to fight cancer. Several clinical trials are currently underway in the United States where patients are being treated with gold nanoparticles.
Under some circumstances, people may feel wealthier than they actually are and this makes them psychologically more prone to increase their spending, as well as their borrowing.
In Morocco, bread is not only a symbol for wider demands but also the material basis of affordable and just living conditions.
Principales colaboradores
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Associate Professor, Department of Environmental and Geographical Science and African Climate and Development Initiative Research Chair, University of Cape Town
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Anthropologie, EHESS, CNRS, Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale, Collège de France, Auteurs historiques The Conversation France
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Directeur de recherche CNRS, Expert for Conservation Biology, Axa Chair for Functional Mountain Ecology at the École Nationale Supérieure Agronomique de Toulouse, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
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Professeur, philosophe et politologue, École normale supérieure (ENS) – PSL
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Associate professor, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Digital Sociologist, Sciences Po Paris, Sciences Po
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Hydrologue, directeur de l’unité de recherche HYCAR, ingénieur en chef des ponts, eaux & forêts, Inrae
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Ikerbasque Research Associate, BC3 - Basque Centre for Climate Change
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), United Nations University
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Lecturer in Mathematics, University of Dundee
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Professor of Landscape Ecology, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ
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Associate Professor of Conservation Science, University of Southampton
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Chercheure en Facteur Humain & Neurosciences Sociales, ISAE-SUPAERO
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Assistant Professor, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
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PhD student in nutrition and health economics, Paris School of Economics – École d'économie de Paris
