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Blue jeans are arguably the most common and popular clothing item that can be seen worn around the world. All-purpose, inter-generational, timeless and comfortable. Jeans today have become a fashion victim of their own success as the garment is now a symbol of over-consumption or "fast-fashion," -- the textile side of fast food. - What Style of Jeans Do You Wear? - As such, a pro-green fashion history exhibition which opened on Wednesday at the Cités des Sciences et l'industrie in Paris explores the flipside of our beloved denim wear -- revealing how the production of jeans unfortunately h...

PRESS RELEASE AB SCIENCE WILL HOST A LIVE WEBCAST ON TUESDAY MAY 25, 2021 ON MASITINIB’S RESULTS IN PROSTATE CANCER Paris, May 21, 2021, 6pm CET AB Science SA (Euronext – FR0010557264 – AB) will host a live webcast on May 25, 2021 with key opinion leaders to discuss recently reported results from the Phase 2B/3 masitinib trial in prostate cancer. The webcast call will be held on Tuesday May 25, 2021 from 6.30pm to 7.30pm CET (12.30pm to 1.30pm ET). The webcast will feature presentations by three Key Opinion Leaders: Stéphane Oudard, MD, PhD, Chief of the Oncology Clinical and Translat...

© Photos.com/Jupiterimages As a boarding student at the Lycée Lakanal, Frédéric Joliot had distinguished himself more in sports than in studies. Reversals of family fortune had then forced him to choose a free public education at the Lavoisier municipal school in order to prepare for the entrance competition at the École de Physique et de Chimie Industrielle, from which he graduated with a degree in engineering, ranking first. After completing his military service, he accepted a research scholarship and, on the recommendation of the physicist Paul Langevin, was hired in October 1925 as M...

African rock art treasures revealed in the Lovo Massif April 27, 2021CNRS Located in the north of the former African kingdom of Kongo, the Lovo Massif is home to a number of rock art sites with a history spanning several centuries. The French-Congolese Lovo mission is studying and listing them with the aim of learning more about rock art in central Africa, as well as protecting this little-known heritage. Seen from the air, the landscape is impressive. Vast limestone outcrops, looking for all the world like a ruined city emerging from the lush vegetation, stretch as far as the eye can see.  ...

2International Livestock Research Institute, Dakar, Senegal The expected increase in livestock production to meet its increasing demand could lead to increased water depletion through feeds production. This study aimed at estimating the amount of water depletion through feeds and its corresponding productivity in livestock within the three dominant livestock management systems namely sedentary-intensive, sedentary-extensive, and transhumance in Yatenga and Seno provinces in the Sahelian zone of Burkina Faso. Using a participatory rapid appraisal and individual interview, beneficial animal pro...