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Sometimes Hollywood really does get the science right. And when it does, you probably have real-life scientists like Caltech’s Sean Carroll or tech-savvy filmmakers like James Cameron to thank.

L’opendata s’enrichit chaque jour de nouvelles et surprenantes données : parmi celles-ci, les lieux exacts des tournages ayant eu lieu à Paris de 2002 à 2008. Un fichier idéal pour s’exercer au datajournalisme et croiser les données. Une démo made in Nicolas Kayser-Bril.

At TEDMED, Sheila Nirenberg shows a bold way to create sight in people with certain kinds of blindness: by hooking into the optic nerve and sending signals from a camera direct to the brain.

A kit for sketching electronics from the high-low tech group, MIT Media Lab, and the Lewis group, UIUC.

Does language affect how we perceive colors? People from the Himba tribe describe colors in a way that make them see the world differently from what most people do.

In celebration of the twenty-firstt anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope's deployment in April 2011, astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute pointed Hubble's eye to an especially photogenic group of interacting galaxies called Arp 273.

Filmmaker David Attenborough is reading lines from “What a Wonderful World” — the Louis Armstrong classic — with images from his “Life” series of documentaries aired on the BBC.

The idea that microscopic flora living inside our bodies can directly manipulate our behavior and personality is perhaps surprising. It’s also exactly what a growing number of scientists is suggesting. And it’s absolutely terrifying.