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Les neurones miroirs sont des cellules nerveuses particulières qui s’activent aussi bien lorsqu’un individu exécute une action que lorsqu’il observe quelqu’un d’autre réaliser la même action. Découverts dans les années 1990 chez les macaques, puis confirmés chez l’humain, ces ...

En raison de la situation actuelle au Moyen-Orient, j’ai été momentanément bloqué à l’étranger, ce qui m'a empêché d’enregistrer de nouveaux épisodes pour cette semaine. Je suis contraint de vous proposer des rediffusions jusqu'à vendredi. Veuillez m'en excuser. Hébergé par Acast ...  Show more

If you took a fly into a really tall elevator and let it out at the top, would it still be able to fly? And what’s the absolute highest an insect could possibly go? It’s a question that’s been bugging CrowdScience listener Chee for a while, but presenter Alex Lathbridge is on ...

When CrowdScience listener Eric spotted a few gnats flying around on a milder day in mid-winter it really surprised him - Eric had assumed they just died out with the colder weather. It got him wondering where the insects had come from, how they had survived the previous cold ...

When CrowdScience listener Eric spotted a few gnats flying around on a milder day in mid-winter it really surprised him - Eric had assumed they just died out with the colder weather. It got him wondering where the insects had come from, how they had survived the previous cold ...

#051 Rebroadcast

This week, Melissa and Jam begin a multi-faceted topic: mosquitos. Now of course mosquitos are insects, so studying them would mostly fall into biology. But there's a lot of chemistry here too. The first question, why do mosquitos bite ...