- You don’t have any question to ask ?
- Yes.
Jean-Pol Tassin, researcher in neurosciences, explains his recent discovery to a four years old child. She remembers several words which make us medidate.
ometimes when you least expect it. Its causes are often very difficult to identify. It embarrasses and makes not the best journalists to pursue an interview or comment online. Formidable phenomenon for any speaker, hiccups keep a good share of mystery. Harmless in most cases, it is much less in the most extreme cases: the syndrome of persistent hiccups, which affects one in 100,000, may take several days or even years! How to get rid of them? Everyone has an idea but only one is 100% effective...
Belgians cured cancers! The researchers of Lucas Willems' team of the molecular biology laboratory of Gembloux, found a family of molecules which could perhaps one day cure certain cancers, among which terrifying leukaemias. At the end of a long work, and a series of brilliant intuitions, the researchers were amazed by the full healing of a sheep that was formerly condemned by an enormous cancerous tumour to the neck. The secret? A drug, which until now was used to cure epilepsy, moreover seems to have the ability to force the cancerous cells to commit suicide.
"That's the realisation of an old dream, crossing the North Pole aboard an immobile ship, carried by the movements of the drift of the pack-ice… exposed to marvellous things and to the forces of nature."
How would you start the search? And what if the idea was to explore disciplines such as astrophysics, ethnology, zoology, art or high-tech? This is how Anne Jaffrennou and Marie Cuisset begin every conversation they have. The Internet is their source of inspiration. When the "Search engine" on risks is run, we find the clown Philippe Goudard, the astrophysicist Patrick Michel, the ethnologists Sophie Blanchy and Tina Otten, the IT expert Bill Joy, the artist Gregory Green, the sociologists Laurent Boceno and Frédérick Lemarchand and Charles Frankel from the "Mars Society".
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