Inspired by the idea of the "black swan" from the financial world, "green swans" are a way of accounting for the certainty of extreme climate events.
Thermal renovation is struggling to accelerate: 17% of the French housing stock, equivalent to 5.2 million homes, are "energy sieves".
Intraplate earthquakes can reach large magnitudes, but they are much rarer than those at plate boundaries.
Scientists who study the biology of the ageing process have been able to show that it is perhaps not so inevitable after all.
In theory, it is possible to build a sail pushed by light to travel through space. But is this thrust sufficient?
The recent occupation of two nuclear sites in Ukraine by Russian forces has highlighted the importance of monitoring such facilities in wartime.
Currently, the consumption of fake news varies between 0.6% and 7% depending on the country, leading us to question the extent of the problem.
A recent study on endocrine disruptors calculated the risk of exposure and predicted a threshold above which children would have been protected from cognitive impairment.
Critical thinking is difficult to teach because it is more than just a skill to learn. To do so effectively it must be seen more as a personal quality that should be nurtured.
A large proportion of employees have developed a taste for remote working, 35% would change employer if their boss forced them to return to the office full-time.
A number of European countries, led by France, are pushing the idea of “strategic autonomy”, which includes cooperative weapons programmes.
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