Columns

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 when it comes to innovation?

with Philippe Aghion, Nobel Prize in Economics 2025, Professor at the Collège de France, the 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, Urban Planning Researcher at LVMT Laboratory at 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, Researcher at CEA-Leti on the Program for Co-optimisation of Design Technologies, Silicon Components Division
π Society

Should there be limits to academic freedom?

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

Beyond rationality: what happens when emotion drives geopolitics?

with Dominique Moïsi, Geopolitical Analyst and Founding Member of the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI)
π Digital

Behind every algorithm: the unseen workers powering AI

with Antonio Casilli, Sociologist, Professor at Télécom Paris (IP Paris), and Research Associate at the Minderoo Centre for Democracy and Technology, University of Cambridge
π Society

The birth of academic freedom in the United States

with Hervé Dumez, Emeritus CNRS Research Director and Professor at Ecole Polytechnique (IP Paris)