Peut-on combattre le feu par le feu ?

On entend souvent parler de “mémoire photographique”, cette capacité presque magique à se souvenir d’une scène dans les moindres détails, comme si notre cerveau prenait une photo parfaite du réel. En réalité, ce concept relève largement du mythe. La science, elle, parle plutôt de ...  Show more

Ce n’est pas un hasard, mais un petit chef-d’œuvre de chimie… et de biologie sensorielle.Tout commence avec le dentifrice. La plupart contiennent des agents moussants appelés tensioactifs, notamment le sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS). Leur rôle est de disperser les résidus dans la bo ...  Show more

Year after year, wildfires have swept through Northern California’s wine and dairy country, threatening the region’s famed agricultural businesses. . Evacuation orders have become a way of life in places like Sonoma County, and so too have exemptions to those orders. Officials ...

Last year wildfires in the Amazon made headlines news. This year we've hardly heard about them - but that doesn't mean they're not happening. In fact the number of rainforest fires in Brazil rose by almost 20% in June, reaching a 13 year high, according to government data. Some e ...  Show more

We've all heard the saying "fight fire with fire," but could it actually work? Tune in as Robert and Allison break down the ways in which firefighters actually do use fire and explosives to fight fires in this episode.

After a prescribed burn became the largest wildfire in New Mexico history earlier this year, the U.S. Forest Service put a ninety day ban on controlled burns.But while these kinds of burns do carry risk, very few escape, and they are a crucial tool in reducing the risk of catastr ...  Show more