If belt-tightening has politicians eyeing cuts in funding, there’s nothing like Nobel prize-giving season to stir passion for science. François Picard’s panel notes growing enthusiasm among teenagers, but many think twice before committing themselves to the long, arduous slog to a doctorate.
If belt-tightening has politicians eyeing cuts in funding, there’s nothing like Nobel prize-giving season to stir passion for science. François Picard’s panel notes growing enthusiasm among teenagers, but many think twice before committing themselves to the long, arduous slog to a doctorate.
A World Health Organisation report has proclaimed the French as the most likely to suffer a depressive episode in their lifetime. This week we investigate whether the French are indeed the world champions of misery and if so, what can be done to change it?
France was proclaimed “world champion of misery” by its own press this week after a report published in the US rated the French as most likely to suffer from clinical depression. The statistics are there, but is the reality?
Whether it is cinema, computing or communications, advances in science are constantly transforming our lives. Whilst some might say that new technology is taking over our lives, in medical settings it is often the case that our lives are saved by advances in science.
It has been 30 years since the first diagnosis of AIDS. Melissa Bell speaks to Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, co-discoverer of the AIDS virus and winner of Nobel Prize in Medicine 2008. They discuss the emergence of the AIDS epidemic, the scientific progress made and direction for new research.
Cyril Vanier speaks to Marc Peschanski, Scientific Director at the Institute for Stem Cell Research (I-STEM, France). He is one of France's leading scientists on stem cells and tells us about the implications of the French Senate's recent decision to authorise research on embryonic stem cells.
Researchers in Israel say women's tears act as a major turnoff for men, their smell decreasing the level of testosterone hormones in males. Scientists say more work is needed to determine which chemical elicited the reaction in men.
After days of speculation that NASA was to reveal the existence of life on another planet, the space agency has announced it has made an alien discovery... on Earth. Experts say the bacterium, on the molecular level, is unlike all others on the planet. It was found in Lake Momo California - a place renowned for its high arsenic content. NASA says it's strong evidence that life may not have evolved from a single common ancestor.
Souleymane Mboup, Director of the AIDS Research Network for Western and Central Africa, has spent close to 30 years researching HIV and AIDS, and is co-discoverer of the HIV-2 strain of the virus. He has conducted extensive AIDS research with Senegalese prostitutes since the 1980s. On World AIDS Day 2010, he talks to Melissa Bell about his ongoing research.
