DECRYPTION – The most worrying hypothesis is that of “seasonal flu”, with a low mortality rate but a considerable number of infected people. –People wearing a preventive mask in Bangkok. Soe Zeya Tun / REUTERS / Only one month has passed since China published the genetic portrait of the new coronavirus that appeared in the … Read more
REPORT – The European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) brings together experts and doctors to monitor the progress of ongoing epidemics, including that of the coronavirus. Through Frédéric Faux –Every morning, a meeting of experts and doctors on the ongoing epidemics takes place at the Emergency Operations Center in Stockholm. European Center for … Read more
Several cases of glioblastoma, a rare and very aggressive type of cancer of the central nervous system, have been observed in the municipalities of Salindres and Rousson. –This type of cancer is relatively uncommon: 3,481 cases were diagnosed in 2018 in France. CAVALLINI JAMES / BSIP / CAVALLINI JAMES / BSIP Salindres, an industrial town … Read more
Updated January 25, 2020, 10:54 p.m. No living thing on earth can do without the element phosphorus. The substance is rare in the universe and was not yet available when our planet was created. Astronomers have now identified a possible way of how it came to Earth. You can find more knowledge topics here Phosphorus … Read more
As a sign of the times, the first global epidemic of the 21st century was not made known by an organic name – plague or cholera – but by a threatening acronym: SARS. A name like an ophidian whistle that had spread via Internet channels emerging in the early 2000s. Since another coronavirus, 2019-nCoV, hatched … Read more
So far, Minister of Health Agnès Buzyn has been reassuring about the potential introduction of the 2019-nCoV Chinese virus in France. “The risk is low but not excluded”, she assured Tuesday. After stays in Wuhan, the cradle of the disease, two suspected cases were in fact“Revealed negative”. The recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO), … Read more
science Group of red dwarfs Clues to Proxima Centauri’s second planet – – As of January 19, 2020 | Reading time: 3 minutes – – – Proxima Centauri exoplanet orbiting the red dwarf star Alpha Centauri C. Credit: Getty Images / Stocktrek Images / Mark Stevenson – – It is said to be a super … Read more
INFOGRAPHICS – The overall volume of alcohol drunk each year in France remains worrying and presents strong regional disparities. –French people over the age of 15 drink an average of 11.7 liters of alcohol per year. 190886345 / gray – stock.adobe.com National and regional figures, released on January 14, 2020 by Santé publique France through … Read more
Wolf Cukier, a 17-year-old boy, discovered a new planet, as announced by the POT, through its TESS satellite (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite). Cukier, a NASA fellow, had the task of examining the “variations in the brightness of the stars” in the images captured by TESS, so the young man realized what his eyes were facing. … Read more
What revive the theories of scientists on the origin of the planet. – Uhe area in the highlands of the southern hemisphere of the planet Mars, an area larger than Europe, has similarities to the Earth’s crust. The new data, published in the journal Nature Geosciences, even suggest that a continent is hiding beneath its … Read more