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π Energy

Climate change is affecting power grids, here's what to expect

with Philippe Drobinski, CNRS Research Director, Professor at Ecole Polytechnique (IP Paris) and Director of Energy4Climate
Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and modern comput
π Digital

Are World Models set to transform AI?

with Jean Ponce, Professor at École normale supérieure-PSL and Global Distinguished Professor at New York University
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π Planet

Biodiversity credits and certificates: what's the difference?

with Alain Karsenty, Economist and Researcher at Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (Cirad)
π Health and biotech

Cadmium in food: true, false, uncertain

with Géraldine Carne, Toxicologist and Scientific Project Manager in the Food Risk Assessment Unit at ANSES, Yann Le Bodo, Project Manager in the Social Sciences, Economics, and Society Division (DiSSES) at ANSES, Sébastien Denys, Agricultural Engineer, Director of Health, Environment, and Occupational Safety at Santé publique France, Thibault Sterckeman, Research Engineer at INRAE, researcher at the Sols & Environnement laboratory at the University of Lorraine
π Neuroscience

Neither alive nor dead: disembodied human brains put to use in medicine

with Pierre-Marie Lledo, Research Director at CNRS, Head of Department at Institut Pasteur, and Member of the European Academy of Sciences
π Economics

Europe is falling behind, can it pick up the pace on innovation?

with Philippe Aghion, Nobel Prize in Economics 2025, Professor at Collège de France, London School of Economics, and INSEAD
π Science and technology

The reproducibility crisis: is science deceiving us?

with Florian Naudet, Psychiatrist, Professor of Clinical Medicine at Université de Rennes, and Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France, Larry Vernon Hedges, Professor of Statistics and Data Science, Education and Social Policy, Psychology, and Medical Social Sciences at Northwestern University, Thomas Rhys Evans, Psychologist and Lecturer in Occupational Psychology and Open Research at the University of Greenwich
π Energy π Planet

Wired for change? Road transport electrification across the Global South

with Yao Amedokpo, Research Fellow at the LVMT Laboratory at École nationale des ponts et chaussées (IP Paris), Manon Eskenazi, Ph.D. in Urban Planning and Development, and Research Fellow at the City, Mobility, and Transportation Laboratory (LVMT) at the École nationale des ponts et chaussées (IP Paris)
π Digital π Industry

Chips Act: can Europe catch up in the global semiconductor race?

with Pascal Vivet, Ph.D. from the Grenoble Institute of Technology and researcher at CEA-Leti on the technology co-optimization program (design, silicon component partitioning)
π Society

Should there be limits to academic freedom?

with Éric Guilyardi, Climatologist, CNRS Research Director and Member of the Pierre-Simon Laplace Institute