How does science infuse and spread?

May 2021 scientific press review

Audio 48:30

La Recherche magazine, May 2021 © La Recherche

By: Caroline Lachowsky

50 mins

What research, what discoveries caught the attention of our colleagues in the scientific press this month?

Publicity

Philippe Pajot

of the monthly

La Recherche 

introduces us to the South African epidemiologist

Quarrraisha Abdool Karim

, one of the world's leading researchers working on HIV, and the new generation of African scientists.

Cécile Lestienne

 from

Cerveau et Psycho 

talks to us about the psychological flaws in justice, these cognitive biases that disrupt the decisions of jurors and the judge in court, without the latter being aware of it. 

Émilie Martin

, of the 

Ciel et Espace review, 

discusses the American lunar rocket Space Launch System, NASA is making the final preparations for its launch at the end of 2021 or early 2022 for the Artemis 1 mission. She also tells us about the reconstruction of the radio telescope from Arecibo.

Thomas Cavaillé Fol

, from

Science et Vie

magazine 

pushes back the limits of the known world to open the doors to new dimensions, on the trail of parallel universes!

And our monthly column 

Ciel d'Afrique

 in partnership with

Astronomie Afrique 

and presented by planetologist 

Sylvain Bouley

 to look at the stars, constellations and planets from the continent, between May 15 and June 15, 2021. 

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