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How Jean-Marie Le Pen permanently reestablished the far right in France

How Jean-Marie Le Pen permanently reestablished the far right in France

Mathias Bernard, Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA)

a slice of smoked salmon on a black plate

Champagne, caviar or salmon: are luxury foods becoming more accessible?

Nathalie Louisgrand, Grenoble École de Management (GEM)

An illustration of a little robot performing tasks on a computer.

Brain implants, agentic AI and answers on dark matter: what to expect from science in 2025 – podcast

Elsa Couderc, The Conversation; Gemma Ware, The Conversation; Paul Rincon, The Conversation et Signe Dean, The Conversation

Jimmy Carter: president, pastor and prophet

Jimmy Carter: president, pastor and prophet

Jérôme Viala-Gaudefroy, Auteurs historiques The Conversation France

Image d'un marché en plein air avec un étal de fruits et légumes avec des ardoises sur lesquelles sont écrites des prix

Sustainable consumption: too expensive for the poor, not enough for the wealthy

Benjamin Boeuf, IÉSEG School of Management

Un cerveau au milieu d’un halo de lumière et de couleurs

Hallucinogens approved for treating psychiatric disorders: what does the science say?

Florian Naudet, Université de Rennes 1 - Université de Rennes

Is it time to recognise the Taliban government in Afghanistan?

Robert Kluijver, Sciences Po

Is it time to recognise the Taliban government in Afghanistan?
Beyond checking a box: how a social licence can help communities benefit from data reuse and AI

Stefaan G. Verhulst, New York University

A lit corridor in a data centre with servers with blinking lights on either side.
Learning from the withdrawals of UN peacekeeping missions in Mali and the DRC

Chiara Lanfranchi, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID); Margaux Pinaud, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID) et Sara Hellmüller, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)

Départ de feu devant un portail sur lequel se trouve le sigle de l'ONU et l'inscription "MONUSCO"
Why personalised gifts are the real winners during the holiday season

Isabella Soscia, SKEMA Business School; Diletta Acuti, University of Bath et Marta Pizzetti, EM Lyon Business School

presents at the foot of a christmas tree. the light is golden.
Gabrielle Chanel: the untold story of a pioneering self-made woman

Gabrielle Chanel: the untold story of a pioneering self-made woman

Séverine Le Loarne-Lemaire, Grenoble École de Management (GEM)

Mathieu Blazy at the end of a runway show, dressed in a white t-shirt and black pants, striking a playful pose.

Chanel is in search of a creative revival. Is Mathieu Blazy the right person for the job?

Delphine Dion, ESSEC

A satellite in space with Europe visible below

IRIS²: the new satellite constellation aimed at ensuring communications autonomy for the EU is launched

Jean-Pierre Diris, Centre national d’études spatiales (CNES)

Can the UK’s ‘Online Safety Act’ tame the hidden violence in leisure communities?

Kristine De Valck, HEC Paris Business School; Marius K. Luedicke, Vienna University of Economics and Business et Olivier Sibai, University of Bath

Can the UK’s ‘Online Safety Act’ tame the hidden violence in leisure communities?
Reconciling technology with humanism: the future of education in the age of generative AI

Massol guillaume, Université de Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier

A person seated at a table or desk it touching a digital image of a lightbulb with a graduate's cap on top.

Notre-Dame

People watch Notre Dame Cathedral burn.

Notre-Dame reopens in Paris 5 years after fire – its reconstruction preserves the past and illuminates France’s modern ambitions

Irit Kleiman, Boston University

A view of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris from the left bank on an overcast day.

The cost of heritage: Notre-Dame rises from the ashes, but will it remain free for all?

Chloe Preece, ESCP Business School

Notre-Dame cathedral

Notre-Dame’s bells have been blessed as the cathedral reopens – a tradition that dates back to the middle ages

Madeleine Burgess, Bangor University

Plastic pollution

Young people are seen collecting or sorting discarded plastic bottles, which lie in piles.

Market-driven approaches to plastic pollution won’t end inequalities – and waste pickers are speaking up

Manisha Anantharaman, Sciences Po

Plastic pollution: Why doing nothing will cost us far more than taking action

Mateo Cordier, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ) – Université Paris-Saclay

A bird is walking on a beach strewn with plastic waste.
Plastic in the ocean and on our plates: What are the risks to human health?

Amélie Châtel, Université catholique de l’Ouest

A person holds a fork over a plate of fish and vegetables.
‘Will you buy fewer plastic bottles?’ A simple question can change our behaviour

Bing Bai, Université de Montpellier; Laurie Balbo, Grenoble École de Management (GEM) et Marie-Christine Lichtlé, Université de Montpellier

Empty plastic bottles in a bag.
The power station at a Volkswagen plant in Germany

Volkswagen: the end of a German industrial myth?

Frédéric Fréry, ESCP Business School

A truck displays a banner calling for Denmark to free the activist Paul Watson.

Paul Watson vs Japan: Disrupting the whaling industry’s logistics – and logic

Gilles Paché, Aix-Marseille Université (AMU)

Reading dark romance: The ambiguities of a fascinating genre

Magali Bigey, Université de Franche-Comté – UBFC

Reading dark romance: The ambiguities of a fascinating genre
What CO₂ ‘jumps’ from Antarctic ice say about climate change

Etienne Legrain, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) et Emilie Capron, Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)

Air bubbles in a piece of ice
Major cybercrime crackdowns signal shift in global cybersecurity strategies

Christine Abdalla Mikhaeil, IÉSEG School of Management; Carin Venter, IÉSEG School of Management et Jennifer L. Ziegelmayer, IÉSEG School of Management

Two computer monitors, one displaying a map of the world, are visible in darkness.
Leading the charge: how regenerative business leadership can improve social, environmental, and economic systems

Eric Coorens, Audencia; Céline Legrand, Audencia et Kaj Morel, Audencia

Leading the charge: how regenerative business leadership can improve social, environmental, and economic systems
An agreement ends resistance to a renewable energy plant in French Guiana… but is it energy justice?

Alicia Phillips, Université de Pau et des pays de l'Adour (UPPA) et Emmanuelle Santoire, Université de Pau et des pays de l'Adour (UPPA)

French Guiana forest
How informing shoppers can help fight inequality

Brian Hill, HEC Paris Business School

Woman doing grocery shopping
How project governance helps navigate public-private ‘coopetition’ tensions

Anne-Sophie Fernandez, Université de Montpellier; Audrey Rouyre, Montpellier Business School et Isabel Estrada, University of Groningen

A part of the Galileo satellite system
‘Noah’s arks’ for fruit trees: How conservation orchards preserve and boost biodiversity

Amandine Cornille, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) et Karine Alix, AgroParisTech – Université Paris-Saclay

Wild apples
Abbé Pierre in front of an Emmaüs banner.

How the Abbé Pierre Foundation and Emmaüs can overcome their founder’s cumbersome legacy

Ludovic Cailluet, EDHEC Business School; Hélène Gorge, Université de Lille et Nil Özçaglar-Toulouse, Université de Lille

Do recruiters truly understand the aspirations of the new generation of students?

Do recruiters truly understand the aspirations of the new generation of students?

Manuelle Malot, EDHEC Business School et Geneviève Houriet Segard, EDHEC Business School

Are managers at risk in an AI-driven future?

Are managers at risk in an AI-driven future?

Wim Vandekerckhove, EDHEC Business School

The Mazan rape trial in France: does literature, with its ‘sleeping beauties’, glorify rape?

The Mazan rape trial in France: does literature, with its ‘sleeping beauties’, glorify rape?

Sandrine Aragon, Sorbonne Université

2024 US presidential election: can we believe the polls?

2024 US presidential election: can we believe the polls?

Jérôme Viala-Gaudefroy, Auteurs historiques The Conversation France

Why do millions of Americans believe the 2020 presidential election was ‘stolen’ from Donald Trump?

Jérôme Viala-Gaudefroy, CY Cergy Paris Université

Why do millions of Americans believe the 2020 presidential election was ‘stolen’ from Donald Trump?
Michel Barnier named French prime minister: ‘Emmanuel Macron just gave the National Rally the keys to the truck’

Frédéric Sawicki, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Michel Barnier named French prime minister: ‘Emmanuel Macron just gave the National Rally the keys to the truck’

ChatGPT in education: breakthrough or disruptive innovation?

ChatGPT in education: breakthrough or disruptive innovation?

Fanny Verrax, EM Lyon Business School et François Scheid, EM Lyon Business School

Eco-anxiety Q&A: how the IPCC’s vice-chair keeps her head cool on a warming planet

Diána Ürge-Vorsatz, Central European University

Eco-anxiety Q&A: how the IPCC’s vice-chair keeps her head cool on a warming planet
Breathing may introduce microplastics to the brain – new study

Michael Richardson, Leiden University et Meiru Wang, Leiden University

Microplastics next to the nib of a pen for comparison
The ESA’s Hera mission takes flight toward the asteroid deflected by NASA’s DART probe two years ago

Patrick Michel, Université Côte d’Azur

Artist's impression of the moment when the ESA's rocket opens to release Hera
As the oceans warm, deep-living algae are thriving – with major potential effects for the marine ecosystem

Johan Viljoen, University of Exeter; Bob Brewin, University of Exeter et Xuerong Sun, University of Exeter

Ocean surface viewed from below
In Lebanon, foreign investment soars despite ongoing challenges

In Lebanon, foreign investment soars despite ongoing challenges

Wissam Samia, Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV)

Five reasons why French business schools should value international students

Manuelle Malot, EDHEC Business School et Geneviève Houriet Segard, EDHEC Business School

Five reasons why French business schools should value international students
How universities can unlock their entrepreneurial potential

Valérie Mérindol, PSB Paris School of Business et David W. Versailles, PSB Paris School of Business

photo nocturne de l'université de Berkeley en Californie

Gangs’stories

Gangs’stories : A glimpse of hard lives around the world

Gangs’stories : A glimpse of hard lives around the world

Dennis Rodgers, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)

Gangs’stories: Soraya, the ‘real’ Queen of the South in Nicaragua

Dennis Rodgers, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)

Gangs’stories: Soraya, the ‘real’ Queen of the South in Nicaragua
Gangs’stories: Danny’s tales of machismo in Glasgow

Alistair Fraser, University of Glasgow et Angela Bartie, University of Edinburgh

Gangs’stories: Danny’s tales of machismo in Glasgow
Gangs’stories: The Sierra Leonian gangster who gave up violence and drugs for poetry

Kieran Mitton, King's College London

Gaz in the dark, looking off-camera
Gangs’stories: From the streets of Dhaka to human-rights advocacy in Bangladesh

Sally Atkinson-Sheppard, University of Westminster

Boys in a field in Sylhet, Bangladesh 8 March 2014.
Gangs'stories: Marwan, or how to find redemption in Cape Town

Steffen Bo Jensen, Aalborg University

People living in the blocks of flats in Hanover Park, Cape Town, 2022.
Gangs'stories: How 15-year-old Jennifer became Honduras’ first female gang leader

Ellen Van Damme, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)

Gangs'stories: How 15-year-old Jennifer became Honduras’ first female gang leader

Environment

Climate crisis sees rise in illegal water markets in the Middle East

Climate crisis sees rise in illegal water markets in the Middle East

Christian Klassert, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ et Samer Talozi, Jordan University for Science and Technology

Maritime commerce and climate change: how effective would a carbon tax on shipping be?

Maritime commerce and climate change: how effective would a carbon tax on shipping be?

Vianney Dequiedt, Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA); Audrey-Anne de Ubeda et Édouard Mien, Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA)

The problems with climate scenarios, and how to fix them

Riccardo Rebonato, EDHEC Business School

The problems with climate scenarios, and how to fix them
Why the Pyrenees’ mountain lakes are turning green

Dirk S. Schmeller, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)

aerial view of a green mountain lake
How the genome diversity of major crops tells the story of their evolution

Jean Christophe Glaszmann, Cirad; Claire Billot, Cirad et Claire Lanaud, Cirad

Bananes
What I learned about eco-anxiety after listening to the climate stories of 1,000 people from around the world

Emma Lawrance, Imperial College London

What I learned about eco-anxiety after listening to the climate stories of 1,000 people from around the world

Life in the Anthropocene

Earth in the Anthropocene: how did we get here? Can we limit the damage?

Victor Court, Université Paris Cité

Une femme faisant face à la mer
How agriculture can make the most of one of the world’s biggest carbon stocks, soil

Rémi Cardinael, Cirad; Armwell Shumba, University of Zimbabwe et Vira Leng, Université de Montpellier

Farmer standing in the fields next to plants.
Measuring the invisible: the tough job of calculating the carbon stocks and fluxes of a forest

Nicolas Barbier, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD); Bonaventure Sonké, Université de Yaounde 1; Le Bienfaiteur Sagang, University of California, Los Angeles; Pierre Ploton, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD) et Stéphane Momo Takoudjou, Université de Liège

Measuring the invisible: the tough job of calculating the carbon stocks and fluxes of a forest
‘Legal animism’: when a river or even nature itself goes to court

Diego Landivar, Clermont School of Business

Aerial view of a waterfall in the valley of Vilcabamba, Ecuador, where an historic lawsuit was won by a river in 2011.

Science and tech

Neanderthal remains found in France reveals there were not one, but at least two lineages of late Neanderthals in Europe

Neanderthal remains found in France reveals there were not one, but at least two lineages of late Neanderthals in Europe

Ludovic Slimak, Université de Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier

Seeing green: some older-car owners show that there’s more than one way of being eco-friendly

Gaëtan Mangin, Université de Bourgogne

Seeing green: some older-car owners show that there’s more than one way of being eco-friendly
Water frost on Mars: on the top of immense volcanoes, a briefly icy landscape

Frédéric Schmidt, Université Paris-Saclay et Adomas Valantinas, Brown University

The summit of Olympus Mons on Mars, with frozen water visible in the crater.
How science saved the ozone layer

Cathy Clerbaux, Sorbonne Université

Image showing ozone concentration
How solar storms play havoc with our lives

Elisa Robert, Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA) et Mathieu Barthélemy, Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)

Green northern lights in the night sky.

Could tardigrades have colonized the Moon?

Laurent Palka, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (MNHN)

Illustration of a tardigrade in front of the Moon.
Euclid telescope: A scientist tells us of his quest to understand the nature of dark matter and dark energy

Henk Hoekstra, Leiden University

Euclid telescope: A scientist tells us of his quest to understand the nature of dark matter and dark energy
Is scientific discovery driven by great individuals or by great teams?

Denisa Mindruta, HEC Paris Business School; Janet Bercovitz, University of Colorado Boulder; Maryann Feldman, Arizona State University et Vlad Mares, INSEAD

Equipe de recherche
Are crows really that clever?

Mélissa Berthet, University of Zurich et Sonya Kaiser, Sorbonne Université

A crow stands on a fence post

Health

Why do our muscles ache after a workout?

Why do our muscles ache after a workout?

François Dernoncourt, Université Côte d’Azur et Clément Naveilhan, Université Côte d’Azur

Illustration d'un homme souffrant d'un point de côté.

Where do side stitches come from?

Clément Naveilhan, Université Côte d’Azur et François Dernoncourt, Université Côte d’Azur

Could protecting our proteins help us prevent ageing?

Miroslav Radman, Inserm

An elderly woman smiling
How air pollution can affect athletes

Valérie Bougault, Université Côte d’Azur

While jogging through town, a young woman rests with her hands on her knees and a protective mask over her face.
Walking or running: for the same distance, which consumes more energy?

Clément Lemineur, Université Côte d’Azur; Clément Naveilhan, Université Côte d’Azur et François Dernoncourt, Université Côte d’Azur

Illustration of two silhouettes, one walking, the other running.
Why do we yawn when we see someone else yawn?

Astrid Thébault Guiochon, Université Lumière Lyon 2

Why do we yawn when we see someone else yawn?

Deep dive

Financial sanctions: banks’ reactions depend on their location, research reveals

Financial sanctions: banks’ reactions depend on their location, research reveals

Matthias Efing, HEC Paris Business School

Un bateau glissant sur une mer d’huile dans laquelle se reflète le ciel étoilé

The study of dreams: scientists uncover new communication channels with dreamers

Başak Türker, Institut du Cerveau (ICM) et Delphine Oudiette, Inserm

Photo de d'une tasse de café.

Job hunting: why taking regular breaks is vital for your well-being and success

Serge da Motta Veiga, Neoma Business School