Les guerres modifient-elles la migration des ...

À première vue, une seconde est une seconde, où que l’on se trouve dans le cosmos. Pourtant, selon la physique moderne, le temps n’est pas un flux uniforme : il dépend de l’environnement dans lequel on se trouve. C’est pour cette raison qu’un même intervalle temporel ne s’écoule ...  عرض المزيد

Ce phénomène étrange, presque comique, mais très courant, porte un nom scientifique : le “pee shiver”, littéralement « frisson de miction ». Beaucoup d’hommes le connaissent, certaines femmes aussi, et les scientifiques ont proposé plusieurs mécanismes complémentaires pour expliq ...  عرض المزيد

The threat to wildlife from invasive species is now one of the greatest across the world and it is growing. Killer shrimp are the latest non-native species to be found in a formerly quiet and respectable area of Cambridgeshire. In the UK we have endlessly debated the problem of t ...  عرض المزيد

The moment scientists had been dreading arrived late last year, when H5N1, or bird flu, was found for the first time in the Antarctic. Last week a king penguin on the island of South Georgia became the first in the region to be suspected to have died from the disease. The Guardia ...  عرض المزيد

Cyprus is one of the main resting stops for songbirds as they migrate between Europe, Africa and the Middle East. For centuries, Cypriots trapped and ate a small number of migrating songbirds, as part of a subsistence diet. But over recent decades, the consumption of songbirds be ...  عرض المزيد

Fear that the highly infectious variant of avian influenza, H5N1, would reach the Antarctic region and put isolated bird populations at risk has finally come to fruition as the first birds on Bird Island in the Atlantic Ocean have come down with the devastating illness. Science m ...  عرض المزيد