Science

Today anyone has a TV channel that corresponds to his “needs”. Is it a surprise that more than a 100 TVs have recently been launched for a viewer that can’t even switch on a TV? Every year TV programs for toddlers (from 6 months to two years) are attracting new parents convinced of their educational...

Since the 19th century, the fate of cows has been tied to new methods and progress in animal science. Genetics and new ways of rearing animals have accelerated bovine biological transformation and manipulation. These are no longer the same cash cows of yesteryear; men have adapted the bodies of catt...

Pharmaceutical companies have an important role in providing us with the medication we need. But if one looks closely, it becomes obvious that this industry sells fewer drugs than…diseases, since the best way to multiply their earnings is to continuously invent new diseases, make us all feel that we...

Terebejov, a small village 200 km from Chernobyl. Despite the irradiations, the level of radioactivity in the region was too low to justify evacuating the local families. Living there means constant measuring for radioactivity… from the bilberries and mushroom that thrive in the forest, to the milk...

The link between coronary accidents and cholesterol in the blood is a mainstream medical dogma that has been going on for the last 50 years. It has led to the development of a billion dollars “low-fat” food industry; and the prescription of statins the most sold medicine in the world. Yet, more and ...

To prevent anxiety and optimize their wellbeing, an increasing number of people across the Western world use data technology. But what is actually measured when collecting data about our mental state? And what gets lost in this quest for our optimal selves?  ...

Energy is a key to progress and growth but both are synonymous to pollution. From Kyoto to Copenhagen the release of CO2 in the atmosphere has not stopped increasing. The critical line has been reached and we cannot count on the main actors (USA and China) to interfere in this evolution. Finding sol...

Progress and growth are both synonymous with pollution. From Kyoto to Copenhagen the release of CO2 in the atmosphere has not stopped increasing. The critical line has been reached. A whole range of so-called sustainable technologies are already carried out but no solution seems truly feasible witho...

How can we take a step back from the issue of vaccination when the invective of recent years has made any debate inaudible, to the point of drawing the line between science and obscurantism? With researchers, doctors and big names in vaccination, the film explores the scientific advances and the que...

Countries like China and India have entered our car-addicted society model. But this is no longer sustainable and finding solutions that are capable of replacing 100% of fossil energies in the next ten to twenty years is the challenge and the race has started. Could de-growth and a redistribution of...