A few months ago, the US Navy confirmed that several videos of "unidentified flying phenomena", captured between 2004 and 2015, were not faked. A revelation that revives the passion for ufology in Silicon Valley. A market has been created to seek proof of extraterrestrial intelligence. Report in California by Valérie Defert and Pierrick Leurent.

What if the answer to extra-terrestrial life was on Earth? To find out, a French researcher explores extreme terrestrial environments. From volcanic lakes to craters created by millennial asteroids, Nathalie Cabrol uses astrobiology to discover the possibility of another life. Interview.

Is the Universe an area of ​​lawlessness? The question of life in space brings up the question of the right to apply to it. The UN has been working on it since 1963. What international law could apply to Earthlings if they one day settled on another planet? Guillaume Grallet opens his spatial code.

Finally, 7—117 languages ​​and dialects are listed in the world. Difficult to be able to speak them all. Fortunately, simultaneous and intelligent translators are there to help us. They hide in our smartphones, headsets or dedicated devices. Demonstration with a pocket interpreter from Japan, Pocketalk, as agile in voice recognition as visual. For its part, Google Translate has just added five dialects to its repertoire, including Tatar and Uighur, bringing the total of the languages ​​it masters to 108.


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