In his review of Walter Isaacson’s The Innovators, Jean-Paul Oury argued that France and Europe had “missed the digital revolution”. The physicist François Vazeille, who spent more than half a
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As traditional aid retreats and private equity and development-bank loans move into cancer care in low- and middle-income countries, Mathieu Morand, Director of the Accelerator Hub at the City Cancer
The UN General Assembly has just recommended the use of equal-area world maps. Andreea Marin, geographer and cartographer at the University of Bucharest, explains why no flat map can render
As climate change pushes temperatures higher year after year, European cities are facing more frequent and more intense bouts of extreme heat. But not everyone in a city feels the
What becomes of the prototypes, software and pilots that European research projects leave behind once the final review is over? Anna Lackner, founder and managing director of the Munich-based Nexuswelt
For years, astronomers have pointed to a handful of unusual stars as evidence of hypernovae after enormous stellar explosions thought to be at least ten times more powerful than ordinary
A winegrower in the Gironde, a former mayor and former president of a community of municipalities, and vice-president of Nouvelle Énergie, David Lisnard’s party, where he is also the spokesman
An Italian study published in Scientific Reports has measured, across some 20,000 works spanning nearly four centuries, a simplification and homogenisation of the melodic and harmonic structures of Western music.
For 19-year-old Mohammad, life used to revolve around hospital visits every three weeks for the blood transfusions to keep him alive. Now, just a few months after receiving a groundbreaking
Relational AI for Minors: Where the Evidence Supports Regulation – and Where It Does Not Yet
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The European Commission’s proposed EU KIDS Act would impose dedicated safeguards on AI companions and chatbots accessible to minors. Medical ethicist Theodoros Zarkos, who has mapped its Article 14 against