Stradivarius, the end of the legend?
The legend says that Stradivarius are the best violins ever made and that the secret of its acoustic disappeared at the same time as Antonio Stradivari died. Most of the violinists believe these...
View ArticleStradivarius, the end of the legend?
Studying the differences between new and Old Italian violins The legend says that Stradivarius are the best violins ever made and that the secret of its acoustics disappeared at the same time as...
View ArticleCave Chauvet – Reproduction unique
Less than a year before the public opening of the cave in Pont-d’Arc and time of the nomination of the Chauvet cave to the rank of world heritage by Unesco, the artists who shape the replica of the...
View ArticleEbola, the bat’s track!
Has the reservoir for the killer virus finally been identified? In the last thirty years, scientists all over the world have been tracking the reservoir for one of the most dangerous viruses man has...
View ArticleThe Roman Boat Arles-Rhone 3 – Return to the River’s Edge
Underwater archeologists and deep-sea divers have excavated the world’s largest intact Roman Boat from the waters of the Rhone River in the South of France. The 2000 years old boat, one of only ten of...
View ArticleAirships are back
Having had their heyday in the early decades of the 20th century, airships immortalized by the famous Zeppelin were forgotten after the tragic crash of the Hindenburg May 6, 1937. They are now back in...
View ArticlePompeii – The casts of the victims of the eruption in 79 AD in restoring
Restoration work began on the entombed bodies of men, women and children who died when Vesuvius engulfed Roman city. For the first time restorers are working on 86 of the carefully preserved plaster...
View ArticleThe mystery of the empty lake
Every year, during the same period (between mid-July and mid-August),the 250 millions cubic meters of water that form the Merzbacher lake, in Kyrgyz Republic, are bursting down into the glacier within...
View ArticleUnder the pole 2
« In the extreme North, through the most inaccessible and inhospitable frozen immensities, under the ice floe in the middle of winter, or in the melting icebergs in the summer… The submarine...
View ArticleA coral farm in the fight against cancer and HIV
The biotechnology firm Provence Corail is interested in the pharmaceutical potential of coral, the molecules of which are playing a role in research into medical treatments for cancer and HIV. Photos...
View Article