How far will the women of science take us?

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How far will the women of science take us?

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By: Caroline Lachowsky

51 mins

On Mars, in the intimacy of viruses, discovering the hidden matter of the Universe, in the footsteps of blobs ...: unexpected and offbeat encounters with exceptional researchers.

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Let's share the most unexpected and incredible research carried out by sacred women of science, from Nairobi to Paris via Niamey and Washington and even on Mars and Titan ... Meetings with exceptional researchers on the traces of matter hidden from the Universe, in the privacy of viruses and blobs, in search of extraterrestrial life and equity on Earth ... Because if there is a common point between all these remarkable researchers (and we start luckily to notice) it is indeed the freedom of tone and action on all subjects even those that annoy ...

With 

Tania Louis

, PhD in Biology and YouTuber, she wrote the

Folle histoire des viruses,

published by Humensciences (by phone)

Caroline Freissinet,

astrochemist, she participates in the results of the Martian Rover Curiosity and in the finalization of the ExoMars2020 mission.

She also takes part in the realization of the Dragonfly mission selected to explore Titan in 2034, as well as in the design of instruments for the future lander on the surface of Europa (Europa Lander).

Audrey Dussutour

, researcher specializing in unicellular organisms (such as Physarum polycephalum, commonly called "blob".

Yvonne Mburu,

biologist and founder of Nexakili, a network halfway between Facebook and LinkedIn, for African doctors and scientists.

She is a “Science” sector expert for 

the Africa 2020 Season

.

Fadji Zaouna Maina, the

first Nigerien scientist to join NASA (at Charlie Dupiot's microphone)

Nabila Aghanim

, astrophysicist and cosmologist who discovered the hidden matter of the Universe

Aïssa Diarra

, health anthropologist (at the microphone of Charlie Dupiot).

RFI is dedicating, Monday March 8, 2021, a special day to International Women's Day by honoring women scientists. 

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