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Click to enlarge slightly Hubble Space Telescope view of thousands of galaxies made during the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey....

Frequently on French TV, several times a week, exceptional movies describe the universe, just above the horizon. Without such splendid remin...

If this tiny video doesn’t blow your mind out, then nothing will: I like to think that all this is happening just alongside our friend...

I may be wrong (I hope so), but I have the impression that few people today are aware of the amazing scientific achievements of this humble ...

I came across an article in the French press about an ingenious device that apparently prevents night-time drivers from falling asleep at th...

Yesterday was a giant day for human knowledge. Scientists working at the LHC ( Large Hadron Collider ) in Geneva announced that the Higgs bo...

At the end of my blog post of 16 July 2011 entitled State of things [ display ], I suggested that readers might sit down quietly for an hou...

In the olden days in Australia (that's to say, when I was a kid), a simple gambling game called Two-up consisted of placing bets on thr...

It's hard to single out the nonfiction book that marked me most when I was a young man. Objectively, I would probably have to say it was...

In the humble and peaceful existence that I lead at Gamone, it's a fact that one of my greatest pleasures consists of having the privile...

I often use the term " churchiness " (giving rise to the adjective " churchy ") to designate a quaint tradition that con...

Back in 1980, when Christine was engaged in book layout at the Seuil publishing house in Paris, she gave me a work copy of their translatio...

The Pharyngula blog of PZ Myers led me to this video, based upon a profound text by the US cosmologist Carl Sagan [1934-1996]:

I found this short video on the website of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science . The montage is based upon a text by Carl ...

I remember vaguely seeing a movie that contained a dialogue along the following lines: QUESTIONER : What made you want to leave England? ENG...

Ever since the 19th century, people have speculated seriously about the possibility that living organisms might have come into existence on ...

In Eugene Ionesco 's crazy play entitled The Bald Soprano , an English lady and gentleman discover, in the course of their casual conver...

We can summarize what we know about why we're here in the Cosmos. For want of a better title, I would call such a résumé a cosmic catech...

Computer users are familiar with the verb boot , meaning to restart the machine. The full term is bootstrap , which is a noun designating th...