Cit� des Sciences : Science news

REACH: towards a cleaner chemical Europe?

Fri, 1 Jun 2007 00:00:00 +0200

Europe finally seems to have reached a compromise on a new regulatory framework for the registration, evaluation and authorisation of chemicals (REACH). But we will still need to make sure that the tests imposed on industry to assess chemical toxicity are reliable. (ONLY IN FRENCH)

Hormonal treatments against menopause: What are the risks?

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0200

Initially presented as a panacea against the effects of ageing in women, substitutive hormonal treatments are accused (since 2002) of increasing the risk of breast cancer. New results from French research teams confirm this excess risk and define it according to treatment type.(Only in french)

Did you say "happy pills"?

Fri, 19 May 2006 00:00:00 +0200

More than fifteen years after the launch of Prozac, France still heads the field of European countries in its consumption of antidepressants. Are the French more depressive and better treated than their neighbours, or are these drugs being used improperly?

Remedies for the taking

Fri, 19 May 2006 00:00:00 +0200

When we browse the shelves of pharmacies, health stores and specialised shops, what products do we find to improve our performance or simply maintain it? What is their real efficacy? From dietary supplements to hormone replacements, from "better living" to "better ageing", the "optimiser" market is booming... although the rejuvenation pill remains a myth.

To the limits of performance

Fri, 12 May 2006 00:00:00 +0200

In the daily life of France's top female badminton players, this film shows the extent to which high-level sport now treads the intangible but very real line marking the human body's physiological limits.

KILLIKAIKE: the Argentinian monkey with a large brain

Tue, 2 May 2006 00:00:00 +0200

The discovery in the Argentinian region of Patagonia of a fossil monkey from the Miocene provides precious information about the evolution of primates in the Americas. Above all, its cranial capacity shows that another primate line experienced drastic brain growth well before humanity's African ancestors. (Only in french)

CHERNOBYL: an impossible assessment

Mon, 24 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0200

On 26th April 1986, one of the reactors of the Chernobyl nuclear power station exploded, releasing an exceptional quantity of radioactivity into the atmosphere. Twenty years later, the argument over the real extent of the greatest civil nuclear catastrophe in history is still far from over...

Le sacrifice, un documentaire de Wladimir Tchertkoff

Mon, 24 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0200

Lorsque la centrale de Tchernobyl explose le 26 avril 1986, les autorit�s sovi�tiques d�p�chent une v�ritable arm�e pour tenter d'�teindre l'incendie. Sans l'intervention de ces centaines de milliers d'anonymes, le volume d'�l�ments radioactifs dispers� dans les airs aurait pu �tre beaucoup plus important. Le journaliste Wladimir Tchertkoff, sp�cialiste de Tchernobyl, leur rend hommage.

VENUS EXPRESS: in orbit around the morning star

Thu, 20 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0200

After a five-month journey through space, the European probe Venus Express has successfully gone into orbit around Venus. Over more than 550 days, it will attempt to find out why Earth's "sister" did not turn out like our planet.(Only in french)

AIDS: What access to medication in the South countries?

Mon, 10 Apr 2006 00:00:00 +0200

Current status regarding access to antiretroviral drugs in the South countries, one year after the application of the OMC agreements on intellectual property, which prohibit developing countries from copying new drugs.(Only in french)