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Yakutia: The History of an Indigenous People Confronted with the Colonial Experience
In northeastern Siberia, centuries of Russian imperial expansion initiated by the Cossacks slightly altered the biology of the Indigenous populations…
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The 2025 Innovation Medal: The CNRS reveals the four talents behind the advances of the future
The 2025 CNRS Innovation Medal has been awarded to the linguist Alda Mari, the biologist Aziz Moqrich, the physicist Pascale Senellart, and the…
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Le Journal
Science one step ahead
Imagining and preparing for the future in order to guide research and public policy is the very purpose of foresight. A perilous exercise, scientists…
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Ten years after, mixed results for the Paris Agreement
In 2015, the historic Paris Agreement, signed by 195 countries, sought to limit global warming to 2 °C. Ten years later, the results have yet to…
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Colonialism in green camouflage
The myth of Africa as a wild, enchanting continent conceals a reality of nature under glass orchestrated by Western experts, to the detriment of…
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Le Journal
Cervantes, an influencer of his time
A previously unpublished sonnet by Cervantes, recently discovered in an account of Neapolitan festivals, reveals the exceptional socio-professional…
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The myth of energy transition
The concept of an “energy transition” is misleading, states the CNRS science historian Jean-Baptiste Fressoz. He explains why coal and oil never…
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