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Concluding a two-year series of lectures on the energy transition, this colloquium aims to shed further light on this perspective through, on the one hand, discussion of topical political and economic issues that cannot be ignored and, on the other, …

With " Agir pour l'éducation ", the aim of the professors at the Collège de France is to understand, advise and act in all their areas of expertise, in a scientific approach open to dialogue between disciplines, in contact with those involved in education …

Painting by Henri Testelin depicting Colbert presenting the members of the Académie des Sciences to Louis XIV. Echoing the title of this year's lecture , the title of the seminar is a double-entendre  : it will address both " droit en science " and …

Can there be scientific and technological practice and progress without a public international law of science and technology, and without corresponding international institutions  ? What, for example, should a public international law on artificial …

Russian Bible engraved by Vassili Koren (1696). The legend in Russian reads : " On the seventh day he rested from all the work he had done. And God blessed the seventh day, sanctifying it, for on it he rested from all the work of creation that he had …

Peccot Lecture Series Since 1885, thanks to an endowment from the family of mathematician Claude-Antoine Peccot, the Collège de France has awarded annual prizes to young mathematicians under the age of 30 who have distinguished themselves in theoretical …

flora i Fauna de magrove , (detail) 2021, Miquel Barceló. …

From the cover of Time Europe, January 15, 1979, drawing by Douglas Johnson. On December 2   1978, in a weekly report to President Carter, his National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzeziński spoke of a "   arc of crisis   " stretching from Bangladesh to …

An artist's view of the protoplanetary disk where the planets and comets of the Solar System were born. …

Dryness of the last Mediterranea summer, Effects of the drought of 2017 in the Mediterranean (Italy, Lago della Duchessa - 1788 m above sea level), Pamela …

Dryness of the last Mediterranea summer, Effects of the drought of 2017 in the Mediterranean (Italy, Lago della Duchessa - 1788 m above sea level), Pamela Trisolino. The urgent challenge of anthropogenic climate change has motivated the study of …

Jacquard control unit for looms. …

Images : page from a Coptic schoolbook (© Cotsen Children's LibraryCotsen Children's Library, Princeton University Library) ; White Monastery (© Barbara Emmel) We continue our exploration of the world of teaching in late Antiquity : after having noted the …

The 2024 lecture discusses the physical parameters that determine cell volume, taking into account osmotic, mechanical, chemical and metabolic aspects. An important aspect concerns the validity of what biologists call cellular scaling laws, which relate …

Over the past few years, the world of battery manufacturers and electric car makers has been abuzz with interest in "   all-solid   " batteries, as have our institutions, judging by their roadmap, which predicts that this technology will reach maturity by …

Over the past few years, the world of battery manufacturers and electric car makers has been abuzz with interest in "   all-solid   " batteries, as have our institutions, judging by their roadmap, which predicts that this technology will reach maturity by …

A Shadok …