Rubric 'Actuality'

A fish disappears, accused chemistry

By Denis Delbecq • November 25th, 2008 in 9:37

The decimation of the bar scratched in the region of San Fransisco is the consequence of a pollution of environment in PCB.



In Galapagos, six alien earned their certificate of origin

By Denis Delbecq • November 22nd, 2008 in 19:43

The study of old sediments of several thousand years reveals that plants considered as introduced by the man lived in the archipelago long before its arrival.



Beep allots for the scientific hunt for the whale

By Denis Delbecq • November 19th, 2008 in 1:46

On Monday, November 17th, Nisshin Maru went to sea. The indubitable sign which the season of the Japanese hunt for the whale took back. But, contrary in some years, the departure of the ship admiral of the fleet of Japanese whalers was made in the biggest discretion.
Once again, supporters and adversaries of [...]



The American West reinvents its quotas of peach

By Denis Delbecq • November 15th, 2008 in 15:58

For some, it will return to privatise the rights of peach. But for many experts, it is undoubtedly the best means to struggle against the surpêche. The American advice of management of the fishings of the Pacific made a historical decision last week: instead of managing opening periods of the peach and ban, [...]



The lemming missing in action

By Denis Delbecq • November 11th, 2008 in 13:15

What happens to lemmings? In the seventies, a suicidal instinct so much was readily allocated them they died from exhaustion some years, to cross the Norwegian fiords in swimming. The simple effect of a cyclic overpopulation which ended up starving them. But for fifteen years, these demographic explosions practically ceased. According to jobs published in Nature [...]



The mushroom which fabricates some oil

By Denis Delbecq • November 4th, 2008 in 11:13

They always need smaller one than one. Jobs of Gary Strobel, to the University of Montana (United States) prove him one more time. The scientist discovered that the mushroom Gliocladium roseum produces hydrocarbons when the oxygen is absent. A cocktail of substance which is not without reminding of the diesel fuel.
Strobel is not



A computer gets bored, a (perhaps) discerned seism

By Denis Delbecq • October 29th, 2008 in 22:49

Your computer turns thumbs. It occupy it to dispel seisms is the message thrown by a group of academics gathered within Quake-Catcher Network (CCN), network of the attrapeurs of seisms PC or Mac, everybody can participate in it provided that his computer is equipped with an accéléromètre.
Since the boom of the Internet in the middle [...]



The potato has the potato!

By Denis Delbecq • October 29th, 2008 in 9:56

Since chandeliers, the potato was especially cultivated in the Western countries. But the simplicity of its culture drew away a sharp increase of its consumption in the South. So as to make one of the weapon to struggle against the food crisis which hits cereals. When the UNO had announced that 2008 would be [...]



China too much likes the coal

By Denis Delbecq • October 25th, 2008 in 12:25

How to struggle against climatic warming if each does not put his in it? While China dethroned last year the United States of their position of first transmitter of gas with greenhouse effect, a report published in Beijing this week underlines that Chinese rejections could double before 2020.
Every week, have underlined recently three [...]



Two sites, otherwise nothing!

By Denis Delbecq • October 21st, 2008 in 21:26

Since October 21st, Science and Life offers you a second site devoted to new technologies. Having accomplished in partnership with the Museum of Arts and jobs, on the occasion of the exhibition “electronics, revolution in motion”, which is held in Paris until November 23rd, the site " New technologies " of Science and Life will offer you information [...]