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The Cité des Sciences has been proposed as the location for a Canada House during the Paris 2024 Games.

PRESS RELEASE AB SCIENCE RECEIVES FIRST AGENCIES AUTHORIZATIONS TO INITIATE CONFIRMATORY PHASE 3 CLINICAL STUDY WITH MASITINIB IN THE TREATMENT OF...

Gas prices in Montreal went up overnight, but a downturn is expected this weekend. Two days of price jumps saw the average cost per litre of unleaded hit $1.72 in the city on Friday. Monitor site Gas Wizard forecasts that will drop by three cents on Saturday.

For an author who fuelled the world’s wanderlust with his books, Jules Verne, who penned Around the World in Eighty Days in 1873 (it is the most translated French novel), didn’t do much travelling. After a day in Amiens, the canal-streaked Picardy town he settled in after relocating from Paris, I’m beginning to understand his reluctance to leave this tiny...

This extract from "Rural Europe Takes Action - No more business as usual" tells the story of the Sustainable Food Consortium, a group of food activists who came together in Redon, France. We hear in particular about the political, bureaucratic and agro-industrial barriers the Consortium faced, and draw some learnings from this.  This extract from "Rural Europe Takes Action - No more business as usual" tells the story of the Sustainable Food Consortium, a group of food acti...

On July 25, voters in Tunisia overwhelmingly approved a constitutional referendum that gives even more power to President Kais Saied—leading to concern in Washington and anger that the country is backsliding.

Abstract. This article examines the Atlantropa Project of the German architect Herman Sörgel as a window onto the interconnected histories of environmental anxi

Scientific academies from the G7 group of major democracies have urged political leaders to take action on decarbonisation, disease spill over from animals, antiviral drugs and ice loss in advance of the group’s annual summit in Germany later this month. Heads of the academies meeting in Berlin this week issued a wish-list of research proposals, including a new international body to coordinate clinical trials.

A European success story, the culture of capital scheme promotes the diverse cultural life of cities undergoing regeneration, while boosting their tourism and economy.

I've just spent a few days at the Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique in Brussels, for theropod-related reasons. A great museum, with tons of excellent material on display. I just want to briefly report one interesting discovery here: I was surprised and delighted to find that the recently opened Gallery of Evolution includes a small selection of hypothetical future animals, apparently the inhabitants of the Dixonian epoch. Here's my favourite beast...