August 2017 Ideas and Innovation
Read the articles selected in August 2017
The race to reveal antimatter’s secrets
by Elizabeth Gibney
Source: https://www.nature.com, 2 August
At CERN, six experiments are trying to probe antimatter and to start measuring its fundamental properties and internal structure. Antimatter has so far proved maddeningly identical to matter, and any difference could explain why anything exists at all.
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https://www.nature.com/news/the-race-to-reveal-antimatter-s-secrets-1.22383
Premiers pas vers un droit extraterrestre
by Paule Gonzalès
Source: Le Figaro, 31 July
Belgium has promulgated a law taking note of the space conquest. It is a normative similar to the maritime law, based rather on depletion of resources than on property right. Contrary to the American law, the Belgium regime is a protection for companies of any nationality.
Reprogrammed skin cells shrink brain tumors in mice
by Emma Hiolski
Source: Science, 1 February
Scientists have developed a method to shrink brain tumors to 2% to 5% in mice, which harnesses stem cells ability to migrate towards tumor cells. Manipulating skin cells, they can produce stem cells to deliver precisely targeted cancer-killing drugs.
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http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/02/reprogrammed-skin-cells-shrink-brain-tumors-mice
Scientists identify the brain’s Eureka moment
by Ian Johnston
Source: The Independent, 28 July
Experiments to identify in the brain’s functioning the moment when the processing of information becomes evidence suggest that the vast majority of our thought circles below the conscious awareness, opening to biologists issues that were the exclusive reserve of philosophy.
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