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Blog de sciences économiques et sociales de Martin Anota. Traductions, revues de presse.

Le 9 juin dernier, Le Figaro publiait un long « récit » mettant en cause François Héran dans son intégrité scientifique, et le prenant à partie comme ancien directeur de l’Ined. Le professeur au Collè...

Cognitive decline, mental health and heart disease are all shaped by the deep links between heart and brain – with major implications for diagnoses and treatment

Researchers have created the first living synthetic bacterium made from non-living parts by killing a bacterial cell and then transplanting the genome of another species into it, blurring the boundary between life and death

Mushrooms have been used by ancient humans for millennia, but archaeologists have only just uncovered their pivotal role in shaping civilisation

La notion de « France périphérique » est omniprésente dans le débat public. Pourtant, les recherches en sciences sociales en contestent la pertinence.

Mesurer les inégalités dans un espace géographique n’est pas aussi évident qu’il y parait. Quelle échelle choisir ? Quels sont les pièges à éviter ? L’analyse de Louis Maurin.

Dans les régions arides, les usines de désalinisation ont un rôle vital, explique l’économiste Esther Crauser-Delbourg.

Life may have begun when RNA molecules began to replicate themselves, and now we’ve finally found an RNA molecule that is very close to being able to do this

This study shows that rising incomes and hotter climates are driving a boom in air conditioning use, which adds to global warming. This highlights the need for clean, efficient and equitable cooling s...

Fusion nucléaire : la France réalise l'impossible avec le record du tokamak WEST. Découvrez comment ce succès du CEA ouvre la voie à ITER.

Claims that the US economy outperforms Europe largely reflect measurement differences in GDP and productivity, not real economic superiority.

Professional mathematicians have been stunned by the progress amateurs have made in solving long-standing problems with the assistance of AI tools, and say it could lead to a new way of doing mathematics

Mathematicians rely on numbers, but finding words to explain different levels of certainty has stymied everyone from the ancient Greeks to the most famous modern philosophers. Maths columnist Jacob Aron tells the story of how a CIA analyst finally cracked it

Nutritional guidelines released Wednesday by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. emphasizes “real food” high in saturated fat, departing from decades of evidence on healthful diets

Three start-ups are aiming to create gene-edited babies. Columnist Michael Le Page has no doubt that editing our offspring will one day become routine, but not like this

Modelling suggests both carbon taxes and green subsidies will be necessary to decarbonise the US economy, but the inconsistent policies of successive presidents are the "worst case" scenario

It has been claimed that because most of our DNA is active, it must be important, but now human-plant hybrid cells have been used to show this activity is mostly random noise

Do No Harm alleges Utah Department of Health and Human Services "systematic review" misleads on transgender outcomes.