Chemistry
How to make soap in wartime?
During the Second World War, we were short of everything, and therefore of soap. The Belgian population, rationed, made some with its own means. […]
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Biology
Is Human Hair as Strong as Rapunzel’s?
Laura TURCULET In Disney’s adaptation of Grimm’s fairy tale, Tangled, Rapunzel is imprisoned at the […]
Animals
Why fear wolves?
The fear of the big bad wolf, maintained since the Middle Ages by tales and fables, is linked to the fear of our own animal impulses. But the wolf is practically harmless for the Man […]
Fun facts
When confinement is used to develop the greatest theories of physics.
Isaac Newton, the famous English physicist who developed the theory of universal gravitation, was also confined 3 centuries earlier. London was then hit by the Great Plague. When he was a student, the University of Cambridge sent the students home to comply with the rules of confinement, as today we have to do with the Coronavirus. This genius knew how to use his time to develop his theories in optics and solve mathematical problems. […]
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The jerrycan: a story of can
An essential tool today for long journeys by car, the jerrycan was above all developed during the Second World War to meet the practical needs of soldiers. You had to think about refueling from time to time, and in wartime, impossible to detour by the nearest service station. […]
Biology
Cubic watermelons! They are not going round these Japanese!
We know that it is not the appearance that counts, but what is in it. […]
Animals
Better than the blood of a unicorn, the blue blood of horseshoe crab that saves thousands of lives.
The horseshoe crab, a prehistoric animal that invented the first antibacterial. The horseshoe crab, a […]
Animals
The tardigrade, the indestructible creature?
Always try to crush it, freeze it or even send it into space, the tardigrade […]
Body
Help, I’m losing my bones!
As incredible as it may seem, an adult has fewer bones than an infant. What […]
Animals
The glass frog
Fairy tales have accustomed us to glass slippers and frogs turning into Prince Charming after a sweet kiss. But did you know the glass frog? Just like Cinderella’s slipper, it is fragile! […]