MYSTERIOUS: 2 - What They Never Told You

‘Noah’s arks’ for fruit trees: How conservation orchards preserve and boost biodiversity

The COP16 biodiversity conference opened on October 21, 2024. The UN conference is an opportunity to highlight that biodiversity is crucial for ensuring a sustainable food system. However, it is directly threatened by climate change and its side effects, such as the emergence of parasites. These disruptions, which reduce crop…

The Conversation · Oct 30, 2024

Weird magnetic 'skyrmion' quasiparticle could be used as a bit in advanced computing memory

Scientists want to replace electrons with so-called 'nanobubbles' — or skyrmions — to store data more densely and efficiently in advanced memory components that would replace RAM and flash storage.

LiveScience · Apr 18, 2024

Meet Gaia-BH3, The Largest Stellar Black Hole Ever Spotted And The 2nd-Nearest To Earth

Analysing data from ESA’s Gaia mission, scientists made a remarkable discovery - they spotted Gaia-BH3, the largest ever stellar black hole. The post Meet Gaia-BH3, The Largest Stellar Black Hole Ever Spotted And The 2nd-Nearest To Earth first appeared on Bored Panda.

Bored Panda · Apr 17, 2024

French cheese on "verge of extinction"

Gorgonzola and Roquefort are also at risk of dying out due to a prolonged decline in fungi diversity

Salon · Feb 20, 2024

Skulls in Ukraine reveal early modern humans came from the East

How did our species, Homo sapiens, arrive in Western Europe? Published in Nature Ecology Evolution, our new study analyses two skull fragments dating back between 37,000 and 36,000 years to conclude that our ancestors came from Eastern Europe and migrated westwards. These two individuals interbred with Neanderthals and with the very…

The Conversation · Nov 9, 2023

Breakthrough for French researchers with discovery of Neolithic village

Archaeologists working a vast Neolithic site in northeast France have uncovered traces of a permanent settlement they say is the last piece of the puzzle in research that began 150 years ago.

Radio France Internationale · Aug 29, 2023

New X-ray scans of 3,000-year-old Egyptian paintings reveal pharaoh’s ‘hidden mysteries’

Headdress, necklace, and sceptre in Ramses II painting appear to be ‘substantially reworked’ but reasons remain unknown

The Independent UK · Jul 13, 2023

Record surface heat could turn oceans into global warming 'time bomb'

With sea surface temperatures swelling to new highs in recent weeks, scientists warn that humanity's carbon pollution has the potential to turn oceans into a global warming "time bomb".

Radio France Internationale · May 4, 2023

Heating oceans a climate ‘time bomb’

PARIS: With sea surface temperatures swelling to new highs in recent weeks, scientists warn that humanity’s carbon pollution has the potential to turn oceans into a global warming “time bomb”.

Bangkok Post · May 4, 2023

Adapting to climate change is like climbing a slippery slope: IPCC author

A major UN report dubbed a "survival guide for humanity" this week said the Earth would reach 1.5 degrees of warming by the early 2030s unless deep and rapid action is taken to slash emissions across all sectors. RFI spoke with Gerhard Krinner, head of CNRS research at France's Institute…

Radio France Internationale · Mar 22, 2023