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Paul wants to close his father’s hardware store. In the storeroom, he discovers eight envelopes and a list of customers who must not be asked to pay. Understanding these debts will force him to see the man he thought he knew differently.
Alma runs a campsite and thinks she knows how to welcome travellers without holding them back. When Samir arrives with a travelling cinema, she imagines a summer romance. Between family ties, their backgrounds and the things they leave unsaid to protect themselves, staying together takes more than a detour.
London, 1684. Amid the fair on the Thames, Ned recognises wood from the boat his father promised him. It now serves as a soup seller’s stall. Ned wants it back before the thaw, unaware of everything his father has kept from him.
On a rotating orbital station, a transport vehicle jams with two people aboard. Tessa and Mika can reach the cabin, but an old machine and a shifted load block their path. There is a way out. They must change the conditions that make it inaccessible.
The workshop closes on Friday. Benoît and Pascal, colleagues for twenty-four years, are supposed to start a business together afterwards. But Pascal has accepted a job elsewhere. As the machines leave and one final order remains to be finished, each day makes his silence harder to repair.
In an old orchard, Diane and her team clear an abandoned hedge. A glove on the ground is devoured. When a colleague becomes trapped in the path, she discovers that their refuge could disappear with the next shift of the light.
Zélie was only supposed to deliver a piano. The statue on the façade also asks for help moving. Three metres tall, terrified of the drop and unable to let go of a piece of balcony, Odon nevertheless dreams of seeing the sea. The journey will be far less simple than expected.
Ysée must deliver a box to a woman in a city-centre passageway. Behind the door, the premises are empty. Two men soon follow her yellow bag, and her employer knows their first names. The delivery becomes a race through streets she thought she knew.
Mara, Joss and Nadir set off on an orienteering challenge on the desert plateau of Sarn. An arch seems to await them at the end of the wrong path. To find the three markers and return in time, their team will have to change both route and leader.
After a concert, the president of the association is found dead behind the cloakroom. A stained coat appears in the bag of a young volunteer. For Roxane Derval, however, one detail resists this too simple story: no one has distributed the ticket supposed to designate the garment.
A retired woman receives a beautiful red bicycle for her birthday. One small problem: she has never learnt to ride. A promised outing with her granddaughter forces her to seek help. But the neighbourhood expert’s advice begins to seem very strange.
Beneath the ice of Tessère, a team observes beings that copy the shapes of its machines. When a pilot becomes trapped in the depths, Sana must understand what attracts these creatures — and what makes them close up.
Paris, November 1870. Adèle wants to write to her daughter, who left five years earlier. The mail must travel by balloon, but her letter is too heavy. As she decides which words to remove, a visitor brings news she had never dared to ask for.
After her night shifts at the hospital, Samira stops for coffee at Anton’s bakery. Between dinner at nine in the morning and deliberately missed buses, they find time to love each other. But the return of Samira’s son unsettles the place they thought they had chosen.
Mélanie’s first novel finally finds its readers. Then an old friend writes to her: the girl in chapter eleven is her. Two days before a meeting in their childhood town, a forgotten letter forces the author to reread the passage she was most proud of.
A woman enters Nell’s workshop with a torn shadow. Three stitches are enough to mend it. But the customers find a strange tranquillity while the seamstress’s own shadow becomes unable to cross the threshold.
Maud comes to prepare an old ice rink for closure. Beneath the ice, she hears blades still turning. When her colleague starts repeating steps against his will, the caretaker must reveal what his tapes have concealed for years.
On her last mountain bus service, Salma picks up an injured young man. A landslide stops the coach, and two men demand her passenger. But the danger may have boarded before he did.
The president of a pastry contest is found dead behind the stage. His voice echoed a few minutes earlier. Between a confiscated recipe and a sugar aviary, Inès Garrigue looks for what the witnesses have actually seen.
Léna has two days to disassemble the lens of an old lighthouse. Then a boat breaks against the island and the storm closes the return. To bring everyone back to port, she will have to leave behind more than a glass case.
Anonymous bouquets appear in front of Aude’s shop, each accompanied by a funny message. While looking for their author, the young florist discovers a conversation that remains unresolved and unexpected reasons to offer flowers.
For her wedding, Nina hires an actor to stand in for her absent father. He seems ideal, until he recognises someone among the suppliers. The ceremony she wanted to simplify will demand an unexpected decision.
Célia comes to collect costumes from a closed theatre. A coat refuses to leave the dressing rooms, doors change their destinations and the auditorium awaits one last bow. To escape, she will have to resist the most familiar voices.
Lise comes to renovate a dance hall. Adrien has to leave for Lisbon. Between a first lesson, a betrayed word and a final ball, they discover that getting closer does not mean giving up on leaving.
The tram no longer recognises their address. Yet Salomé and her neighbours still live there. In a city that certifies its public announcements, she discovers how a carefully calculated truth can erase fifty-six people.
Lyon, 1943. By correcting a clandestine sheet, Léonie discovers the name of her brother on a list of people to warn. To know who to trust, she will have to go up the trail of a scrap paper.
Mandated to open a river connection, a cartographer discovers that his survey is interrupted before arrival. A flood, a damaged boat and a ceremony already announced transform the mission into an unexpected crossing.
A stolen painting reappears in front of the museum. For Iris, its return should close the case. But a detail on the back reveals a disappearance no one had reported.
Her missing father was still paying for a room where a Sunday from his childhood repeats itself. Maëlle enters to understand. But every visit costs her a piece of the present.
On the eve of arrival, Maya discovers that the ship is using archives promised to be erased. In one of them, she recognizes her mother.
On her last day at the ticket office, Jeanne helps a man invite friends. A too generous poster soon turns this gesture into a neighborhood adventure.
A hotel that has been closed for 30 years. A window that lights up at night. And a letter that Nora should never have received.
In a forgotten book, Élise finds a message. She replies. Journey after journey, a stranger begins to take a very real place in her life.
For her first night at the reception, Ana has only one strange instruction: not to answer the calls from room 19 after midnight. The hotel only has eighteen.
Camille is clearing her mother’s house when a stranger walks in with a pie. Her brother recognises him and wants him out. But the man left something here, and this time he intends to take it back.
In January 2016, a zinnia bloomed on board the International Space Station.
A modified toilet object participated in an external repair of the ISS.
An Australian species has turned a digestive organ into a shelter for its offspring.
Researchers have discovered that this inhabitant of the depths collects mostly debris.
Twenty-two appendages turn a strange muzzle into a precision instrument.
A whale carcass revealed an unexpected feeding pattern.
In the depths, bright pockets are detached from the body of a worm.
The Macropinna fish has long hidden the mobility of its eyes from researchers.
The researchers used lasers to understand an extremely fragile living filter.
The names of a comic book became the indicia of the two ships of Apollo 10.
Stardust has captured fast particles in a surprisingly light material.
Voyager 1 turned to photograph Earth on February 14, 1990.
Kastav - Croatia
The sounders of Kastav carry the rhythm from one village to another.
Austria, Germany, Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia
Blaudruck uses reserves applied before dyeing with indigo.
Rjukan Norway
In Rjukan, mountains hide the direct sun for part of the year.
In June 2020, Lake Lonar suddenly changed its appearance.
Breeder Communities Mongolia
A pastoral ritual combines music, observation and animal skills.
The future US president was interested in a navigation problem.
Rosetta has identified familiar molecules in an environment inaccessible to our nose.
Scotland Island of Gruinard
Military tests with anthrax have left a Scottish island contaminated for decades.
India Mysore
An automaton of the Mysore court mingled noises and symbol of power.
United Kingdom Leeds
A diplomatic gift from Henry VIII preserves an enigma in its present form.
Egypt ancient objects
One experiment tested the possible function of two Egyptian objects.
United Kingdom Barnard Castle
At the Bowes Museum, an 18th-century automaton animates a landscape of glass and silver.
United States Washington
In 1926, the Coolidge received a raccoon whose fate changed radically.
Distorted lines allowed the engineers to reconstruct an impact.
United States Delaware
In Winterthur, analysis of a green blanket revealed an arsenic-based pigment.
United Kingdom Cambridge
In Cambridge, an ingenious framework ended up attracting a false attribution to Newton.
South Korea
In Korea, the jultagi combines acrobatics and exchanges with a character left on the ground.
Saudi Arabia Asir
The al-Qatt al-Asiri transmits a wall art by bringing together several generations.
Kazakhstan
In Kazakhstan, the music animates a puppet without a second performer.
Kazakhstan
Assyks become game pieces whose position matters.
Japan regional traditions
In Japan, raiho-shin take different forms depending on the community.
Indonesia Aceh
The gayo saman unfolds its rhythm with the hands, voice and body.
Bulgaria - Bulgari
Nestinarstvo belongs to a ritual documented in the village of Bulgari.
Kyrgyzstan
The kok boru combines equestrian competition and Kyrgyz traditions.
Switzerland Basel
The Morgenstreich leaves the lanterns to light the beginning of the party.
Pacific California
A sponge of great depths turns its branches into traps.
Eastern Pacific
A large eye facing up and a small one facing down share the hunt.
North Pacific Monterey Canyon
A deep tunicate doesn’t just feed like its filtering cousins.
Pacific Ocean
Poeobius floats away from the bottom and collects matter that comes down from the surface.
Pacific Northeast
Erenna sirena attracts fish to her tentacles.
Tropical and temperate waters
Phronima digs a gelatinous animal, then keeps its envelope.
Oceans full water
Cystisoma combines camouflage and vision in the darkness of the ocean.
Oceans great depths
The giant ghost jellyfish remains difficult to observe despite its size.
Indonesia
Coconut shells become transportable tools.
Oceans surface waters
Female argonaute produces an envelope that is also used for its buoyancy.
Solar System Ida
Ida’s companion was identified several months after Galileo’s passage.
Space Deep Space 1 probe
Deep Space 1 continued its journey after the loss of its star sensor.
Pacific Northeast
A water animal has long resisted its classification.
Pacific Northeast
Octopoteuthis uses luminous ends to divert the danger.
Oceans full water
Tomopteris combines ripple and synchronized appendages.
Oceans Deep Seas
Giant pycnogonids do not weave a web to hunt.
Oceans Abyssal Plains
An observed association remains difficult to fully explain.
Oceans full water
Cranchiids have several ways to change their visibility.
United States Nevada
Cyprinodon diabolis depends on warm water in the middle of the desert.
United States California
Eureka sand produces a sound under certain conditions.
United States Yosemite
In Yosemite, Horsetail Fall can turn orange at sunset.
United States Great Smoky Mountains
Photinus carolinus coordinates its light flashes during reproduction.
United States Wallops
NASA confirmed an unexpected detail in an image of LADEE.
United Kingdom Hereford
In Hereford, the protection of structures has also changed their storage.
United States Harvard
A human binding led the library to review its preservation.
United States
Margaret Knight has mechanized the folding of flat-bottom paper bags.
Europe World War II
The Ghost Army used images, sounds and false signals to deceive the opponent.
United States Dearborn
The 1941 prototype had plastic panels on a metal structure.
Switzerland Neuchâtel
An 18th-century automaton records a message without a computer.
Indonesia Papua
The noken papou connects artisanal manufacturing and everyday life.
China Rui’an
In Rui’an, a traditional printing house accompanies local genealogies.
Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Turkey
Related traditions employ pieces distributed among cavities.
Mongolia
The circular breathing accompanies the Mongolian long song.
Portugal Bisalhes
The black ceramic of Bisalhes retains a chain of handcrafted gestures.
South Korea
Korean taekkyeon uses fluid and circular movements.
Japan Kitahiroshima
The Mibu no Hana Taue features agricultural work.
Estonia Kihnu and Manija
In Kihnu and Manija, women played a major role in the local culture.
Oceans great depths
Magnapinna remains difficult to study despite spectacular images.
North Pacific
The Lampocteis ctenophore avoids being illuminated from the inside.
Eastern Pacific hydrothermal sources
Riftia lives around hydrothermal sources on the ocean floor.
Pacific hydrothermal vents
Alvinella lives in contact with strong temperature differences.
North Pacific
Liponema changes shape and lets itself be moved by the currents.
Oceans depths
Atolla can produce blue splinters when threatened.
Oceans deep waters
Anoplogaster cornuta doesn’t have to be giant to look impressive.
Oceans seabed
The chimeras of the genus Hydrolagus explore the background with several senses.
Atlantic and Pacific abyss
Spectrunculus uses large olfactory organs to find its meal.
Oceans full water
In the male Haliphron, a specialized arm can remain hidden.
Earth orbit
Scott Tilley spotted IMAGE, but finding a signal wasn't enough to restore the mission.
United States observations2020
The 2020 SO object changed its identity after examining its trajectory and light.
United States Yellowstone
Grand Prismatic Spring houses microscopic communities adapted to heat.
United States Arizona
Arizona’s petrified forest retains trees that have become mostly quartz.
Mongolia
The ossicle shot combines precision, personal equipment and melodies.
East and South-East Asia
Traction games accompany the agricultural cycle of Asian communities.
Belgium and France
The great effigies of Belgium and France are collective works.
Italy Sardinia
The canto a tenore sarde brings together stamps with different functions.
Armenia
Armenian lavash combines an amazing cooking gesture with ritual uses.
Korea
In the cheoyongmu, the costumes represent the directions and the center.
China Jiangsu
The Yunjin brocade combines a complex profession with working songs.
Buganda, Southern Uganda
In Baganda, mallets transform a bark into a soft cloth.
Highlands of South-East Madagascar
At the Zafimaniry, assemblages and sculptures make wood speak.
External Islands of Yap, Federated States of Micronesia
Carolinian navigators learn to interpret the landmarks of the ocean.
Bulukumba, South Sulawesi, Indonesia
The word pinisi first designates a rig, behind which live trades.
Wine Communities of Georgia
In Georgia, a clay jar can become a buried cellar.
Communities of the Arabian Peninsula and Jordan
A gesture from the cup can complete the service without a word.
hawker restaurants in Singapore
Hawker centres tell the story of a city through shared meals.
Inuit communities in Greenland
The singing duels give the drum an unexpected story.
Mongolia, including the Altai region
The same singer can bring out a melody above a drone.
Mauritius, communities of the sega tipik
Before the dance, the ravine receives a sound preparation.
Sicily, traditions of Palermo and Catania
The Opera dei Pupi brought the audience back for the rest of the adventures.
Valencia and communities falleras, Spain
The Fallas give a flamboyant end to satirical creations.
Vevey and Vaud vineyards, Switzerland
The Fête des Vignerons is measured differently than in annual appointments.
Ashikari-yama District, Kyoto, Japan
Gion Matsuri begins with an often invisible neighborhood work.
Recife and Olinda, Pernambuco, Brazil
The frevo makes the sombrinha a movement accessory.
Mito, Province of Concepcin, Central Andes of Peru
The Huaconada gives a special place to the elders in the dance.
Archipelago of Chiloé, southern Chile
The tiradura minga moves the building thanks to the collective work.
Puebla and Tlaxcala, Mexico; Talavera de la Reina and El Puente del Arzobispo, Spain
Remote workshops share a heritage, without making identical parts.
China; Origin in the Yellow River Basin
This calendar names both the dew and the awakening of insects.
Ptuj and Drava Plains, Haloze and Slovenske gorice, Slovenia
The tours of the Kurenti resonate a desire for renewal.
DART shortened the turn of Dimorphos around Didymos.
Perseverance's drawing mixed technical control and binary code.
Their walrus footprints also serve as moving markers.
The Japanese probe IKAROS measured the effect of photons.
Hayabusa2 observed Ryugu's reaction to a known impact.
Akatsuki managed his second insertion with other thrusters.
Genesis reported solar wind in broken collectors.
The cartridges of the control module had to be adapted to the lunar module.
Venera 13 transmitted a panorama from the surface of the planet.
Mars Climate Orbiter also reveals a control failure.
Why does Prince Rupert’s drop resist shocks, then fragment when its tail breaks? Discover the tensions hidden in the glass.
The shape of the particles can change the result of drying.
The Leidenfrost effect even allows a rise on certain surfaces.
The vibration makes geometric figures appear without a pencil.
At ETH Zurich, researchers handled liquids without containers.
An almost invisible film can pass over the edge.
The nanotubes studied at MIT return extremely little light.
Some JPL aerogels contain up to 99.8% vacuum.
The deformation of the crystal and the electricity respond.
The metal grid does not behave the same for all waves.
Polarized light makes otherwise discrete constraints appear.
Its tiny reliefs redistribute the colors of light.
The body of the musician changes the properties of an electrical circuit.
The first purchase of the UPC scanner took place in Troy in 1974.
The electronic ink retains the image thanks to the position of its pigments.
Error correction adds information that can be used to repair data.
Fiber optics combine two lenses with different properties.
Near 4 °C, fresh water reaches a maximum density.
At Cornell, researchers changed the reaction of a suspension.
A half turn is enough to upset the geometry of a loop.
Louis Braille transforms a handwriting that the fingers can go through.
Grote Reber built a large antenna in his home in 1937.
Sequoyah designed a syllabary to write Cherokee. Discover how its signs have helped transmit a language that is already alive.
Discover Janaki Ammal, botanist and cytogeneticist: his research on chromosomes illuminates the diversity and transformation of plants.
The honors received by Laura Bassi did not erase the restrictions.
Stephanie Kwolek talks about the test she wanted to continue.
Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer drew attention to a coelacanth in 1938.
Wilson Bentley has dedicated decades to snow crystals.
Maria Sibylla Merian represented insects as they were transformed.
Williamina Fleming spots a nebula in an 1888 photograph.
Scarabaeus satyrus uses a light far more distant than its destination.
The color change occurs behind the retina.
Channichthyidae live without hemoglobin, but always with oxygen.
The penguin to jugular fragments its sleep during reproduction.
Electrodes revealed an almost invisible rest over the ocean.
The migratory cycle in eastern North America is more than one life.
Since the Azores, European eels have reached the Sargasso Sea.
His fingers can also rearrange their supports when the surface changes.
Under water, its beak detects more than just contacts.
This long spiral comes out of his jaw: it is a tooth.
Algae and small butterflies share this living support.
Its mucus also works thanks to long protein fibers.
New teeth appear in the back all his life.
Water is concentrated close to impact, even when the distance changes.
In Chlorurus sordidus, this envelope reduces certain parasitic attacks.
At Lybia leptochelis, each clamp can carry a living partner.
His defensive jet starts in pulsations regulated by pressure.
Goffin cockatoos adapted their equipment to the task.
The superb male menure imitates the alarms of several species.
His pocket participates in the exchanges necessary for the development of the little ones.
Germany Immendingen and Aach
The underground detour of the Danube leads to another basin.
Romania Near Mangalia
A cave houses a food network fed by chemistry.
Australia Purnululu
The bands of the Bungle Bungle mix rock and living.
Brazil - Maranho
Lenisis Maranhenses looks like a desert, until the rainy season.
Canada Ontario
Reversing Falls responds to the tides of the Bay of Fundy.
Zimbabwe Near Masvingo
Monumental walls testify to a medieval African know-how.
Turkey Cappadocia
Galleries and excavated rooms organized an underground refuge.
Norway Svalbard
The world seed reserve has been used to replenish collections.
Central Asia Aral Sea
Satellites have documented the drying up of its southern eastern basin.
Mexico Chihuahua
The gigantism of these gypsum crystals is based on slow growth.
United Kingdom Vindolanda
Claudia Severa just wanted to see her friend again for her birthday.
Iraq Ur
The quality of copper is at the heart of a very old trade dispute.
Roman Empire 4th century
Its secret lies in tiny amounts of metals in the glass.
Egypt Abu Simbel
The monuments were reassembled in an artificial cliff.
Germany Nebra
This bronze disc retains the traces of several versions of its decoration.
Norway Oseberg
The wealth of the tomb did not give their names.
Peru Andes
The cords were a real medium of information.
Antarctica Cape Evans
An object reappeared in 2012 has regained its place in the archives.
Byzantine manuscript 13th century
Reused scrolls have preserved older mathematical texts.
Italy - Pompeii
An inscription mentions October 17, before the burial of the house.
Micronesia Yap
Rai stones do not work as pocket pieces.
Scotland Isle of Lewis
These small medieval figures evoke the fearsome berserkers of Scandinavian narratives.
United Kingdom - Lincolnshire
This Roman dodecahedron retains an uncertain function.
Turkey Off Ka
Its cargo reveals the trades of the Bronze Age.
Italy Herculaneum
X-rays and computation make characters accessible.
China - Dunhuang
A short mention gives a name and date to this printed scroll.
Iraq Mesopotamia
A written discovery illuminates a much older family of games.
Alps South Tyrol
The 2001 exam changed the understanding of his death.
Japan Average Jmonmon Period
These spectacular shapes were modeled in clay.
Peru Churunga Valley
Aras feathers make up blue and yellow surfaces.
Wollemi pine, discovered in 1994.
Welwitschia spends her life in the desert.
Pando, the great aspen clone of Utah.
Meghalaya, India
In Meghalaya, a living know-how.
Coastal redwood also absorbs water through its foliage.
The coco de mer poses a question of evolution.
The dionea keeps a short trace of the first contact.
Seagrass beds are not carpets of algae.
At Wind Cave, the wind follows an invisible difference.
Devils Tower keeps track of a cooling.
Anna Atkins and the Blue Pages of 1843.
Benjamin Banneker wrote in 1791.
Josephine Cochran and her dishwasher.
Cecilia Payne and her thesis of 1925.
John Harrison and the H4 Trial.
Inge Lehmann reads earthquakes differently.
Chien-Shiung Wu puts symmetry to the test.
Alice Ball and a chemistry breakthrough.
Caroline Herschel earns her place in astronomy.
Emmy Noether connects two fundamental ideas.
Peru Taquile Island
A belt tells the rhythm of collective activities.
Vanuatu Central and North Islands
These paths can preserve knowledge and accompany stories.
Mexico Totonac communities of Veracruz
The Voladores ceremony gives a ritual sense to the movement.
Turkey Edirne
In Krkpnar, the encounter begins long before the first catches.
Mongolia Know-how of ger
Moving this home depends on collective learning.
Japan Artisan Communities of Washi
Vegetable fibres also become elements of internal separation.
Indonesia Tradition of Angklung
With these bamboos, playing together is part of the musical process.
Italy Cremona
The familiar silhouette conceals a patient artisanal assembly.
Croatia Northern regions
This creation can convey a message as much as a flavor.
Spain Catalonia
In a castell, the descent also belongs to success.
Azerbaijan - Weaving communities
The separation of the profession marks a special step.
Netherlands Communities of corsos
An ephemeral decor can require a very long-lasting commitment.
Southern Africa Lesotho
The astonishment comes from the minimum altitude, not just the summits.
Iceland Surtsey
A recent land has made it possible to follow the installation of the living.
Yemen Archipelago of Socotra
The world map can be reduced to a small archipelago.
Madagascar - Tsingy de Bemaraha
The landscape evokes trees, but its tips are limestone.
Turkey Pamukkale
The water gradually removes the contours of the basins.
Seychelles Aldabra Atoll
The landscape keeps track of a marine past.
United States South Florida
In the Everglades, the flow can take the form of a tablecloth.
Croatia Plitvice Lakes
Water, minerals and organisms together shape the obstacles.
In some places in the morning there is a strange false start.
The inclination of Uranus radically transforms the alternation of the seasons.
A surprise in the dust.
Six almost regular sides appear in a moving atmosphere.
Bennu: The appearance of the ground was wrong.
Philae’s first contact was the beginning of an unexpected trajectory.
On Eros, NEAR becomes a lander.
David Scott is testing the fall to the Moon.
Apollo 12 finds the indications of its instruments.
Enceladus itself sends some of its material above its surface.
Triton’s trajectory resembles the index of an old capture.
On Japet, a chain follows a very particular line of the globe.
Io’s volcanism is linked to a permanent gravitational struggle.
Chariklo is not alone in front of the star.
Huygens probes Titan by radio.
Ingenuity no longer recognized the terrain.
Rosetta had to remind the Earth.
SOHO observes; volunteers discover.
Shoemaker-Levy 9 met Jupiter in 1994.
Hubble needed new eyes.
Tsutomu Yamaguchi’s journey connects two disasters just a few days away.
The 1986 ceremony is more certain than the legal status of the conflict it closed.
In Gettysburg, a monument shows a sitting veteran, far from a battle scene.
Massif du Mont Rose Switzerland and Italy
In the Mont Rose massif, neighboring peaks have very different roles.
Mont-Saint-Michel France
An expanse discovered becomes again a surface of water at the rhythm of the tides.
Behind an almost absurd name are maritime violence, trade and political pressure.
In 1814, the rupture of a vat turns a brewery into a source of disaster.
The quote from Desmond Doss tells of a succession of rescues under fire in Okinawa.
Its relatively low weight hides an activity that does not stop with your visible efforts.
Saliva accompanies almost all ordinary gestures of the mouth.
The skeleton combines strength and renewal rather than definitive rigidity.
A protection is played in a thin layer, just in contact with the cells.
A visible part of your body is renewed by an almost invisible movement.
A machine can hold an organ in very different conditions from a simple cold transport.
The secret is more like combinations than a single label for each fragrance.
A viral photograph has provided researchers with a real question of perception.
The word “ghost” does not mean that pain is invented.
The overlay is more subtle than a computer that would display all the answers at once.
The tunnel effect has left the equations to become an instrument of observation.
At a very small distance, the absence of air does not mean the absence of any interaction.
The spectacular noise doesn’t just come from the shock of its two clamps.
An old museum chronicle tells of an awakening almost four years after the showcase.
A group at rest can take on the look of a small living raft.
An L-shaped box turned a meal into a manipulation problem.
The links between cows have been studied beyond the pretty formula of “best friends”.
Detailed observations show how birds use the passage of cars.
The relationship with aphids is not just about harvesting a sweet substance.
Social parasitism can go through raids against the brood of a neighboring species.
Their end of life after reproduction reveals the surprising role of glands located near the eyes.
The formula on cow farts forgets much of the mechanism.
The spectacular flapping of the wings tells only half of his strategy.
A trompe gesture made an experiment on self-recognition famous.
The labre cleanseur forces researchers to think about what a mirror measures.
A very fragile body has left a trace in a rock about 505 million years old.
A very sensitive camera reveals a tiny emission related to the activity of the living.
A long-repeated figure was re-examined by returning to the estimates that supported it.
An experience distinguishes the speed of perception from the memory of an event.
A capacity for tissue growth makes a particular form of graft possible.
A few grams of a chemical element play essential roles without forming a piece of metal.
China
The administrative clock does not follow every movement of the Sun through the territory.
Russia Kaliningrad and Kamchatka
A small subtraction corrects a big idea received on the map.
South America Guyana and Brazil
The answer appears as soon as the map is unfolded beyond Europe.
North Atlantic Saint Pierre and Miquelon
The nationality of a territory cannot be deduced from the nearest capital.
River Landscapes
The water path can change until it leaves an old curve behind.
New Zealand North Island / Te Ika-a-Mui
The same place can be recognized in several linguistic traditions.
South Africa Cape of Needles
A landmark on the coast marks a boundary that water does not draw as a land boundary.
Australia Canberra
The answer is a city created to hold a place that two others coveted.
Sweden Kiruna
In August 2025, an entire building accompanies the relocation of an urban center.
North America San Juan
In 1859, a vegetable garden became the starting point for a military escalation.
United Kingdom
The name of the law gives a misleading impression of the trial.
Logic and history of mathematics
In June 1902, Bertrand Russell reported to Gottlob Frege a contradiction in his system.
Italy Rome
In 897, the enemies of Pope Formosa attacked him.
Italy Modena and Bologna
The trophy exists, but its history has become bigger than it.
China Shaanxi
Thousands of figures accompanied an emperor in an immense funeral universe.
Former Czechoslovakia 1972
An extraordinary survival record, often told with one essential detail less.
Cameroon Lake Nyos
In 1986, the danger came from a gas accumulated in deep waters.
United Kingdom
A schedule quickly becomes confusing when each city follows its own time.
Metrology
The triple dot gives a less spectacular response in appearance, but very precise.
Space Propulsion
It carries away part of what an aircraft engine finds in the atmosphere.
To find them, you have to look at the ends of his arms.
The expression seems poetic, but it designates a very real sound phenomenon.
Oxygen borrows small openings that are not noticed at this scale.
The term “zombie ant” hides an even stranger biological interaction than its nickname.
It also serves as a chemical reserve during a long wait for the cold.
How does the periophthalm breathe out of the water? Discover this amphibious fish that moves on the vase, provided you stay wet.
Mining has revealed a world that daylight never reaches.
The flashes of an eruptive plume are not necessarily those of a thunderstorm that happened by chance.
Near East Dead Sea
Its name hides a lake, a deep depression and a life that is not noticed at first glance.
United Kingdom and Mexico
Two landmarks that our imagination rarely places on the same line of time.
United States Virginia
The record for this ranger is a succession of accidents, not extraordinary power.
Australia Campion
The "war of the emus" tells of an agricultural operation that has become an embarrassing episode.
Experimental research
To study their reaction to the game, researchers need to listen beyond our ears.
United States University of Missouri
An experience separates the bite from the vibration it produces.
Japan Microbiological research
A real discovery, but much more precise than the promise of a clean ocean on its own.
Evolution of vertebrates
Crocodiles and birds are close relatives: discover why their common ancestor tells a story other than their appearances.
Belgium and the Netherlands Baarle
A Dutch number, a Belgian number: this threshold raises a very concrete question.
Ecuador Chimborazo
To separate two mountains, it is still necessary to decide where the measurement begins.
Norway Svalbard
The rumor seems perfect for an Arctic city. An essential detail brings it down.
France Paris
His silhouette seems eternal. At first, his future was far from certain.
Africa
The length suggests a difference in number. The skeleton has another answer.
Earth's atmosphere
Its apparent lightness hides a question of droplets and movement.
Neptune and Uranus Earth experiences
In 2022, an experiment at SLAC observed the formation of nanodiamonds in PET.
Natural radioactivity
The word worries. Quantity and origin tell a more ordinary story.
United States NIST and JILA
Thirty-three centimetres is enough to reveal an Einstein effect.
Earth's atmosphere
The flash lasts very little. The upheaval it causes in the air is considerable.
United States Four Corners
On this map, four angles meet at the same point.
United Kingdom Bristol Experience
Silk threads, an electric field... and the animal leaves its support.
United States Great Basin
A knotty pine can be much more than a silent witness.
Marine environments
Counting her receivers is not enough to imagine the world she perceives.
United Kingdom
Their cries do not depend only on their birth: their surroundings also seem to leave an imprint.
Scotland
Under water, some whistles allow to address a particular individual.
United States
Two artificial faces allowed the researchers to distinguish memory and simple reaction to an expression.
North Africa
The white on the desert surprises. It is above all our image of an ever-burning desert that deserves to be revisited.
Tonga
The satellites followed a piece of land that the volcano had created and then destroyed.
Oceans
Their lineage goes through a dizzying time, but the sharks of today have not remained frozen in the past.
Louisiana, United States
During Hurricane Isaac, the sea momentarily thwarted the usual meaning of the river.
Chile Atacama
A landscape helps prepare research on another planet, without being its perfect copy.
Asia Himalaya
An encounter between plates continues to transform this immense mountain range.
Polar regions
The Earth continues to turn. It is his inclination that changes the show.
Colombia - Sierra de la Macarena
In Caoo Cristales, an aquatic plant participates in the show that made the river famous.
Italy Campione d’Italia
A political border and a customs border do not always tell the same story.
Harvard, United States
In a carefully prepared medium, a light pulse can be significantly slowed down.
Research in materials
The “memory” of certain alloys belongs to their structure, not to a hidden brain.
Vatican and Italy
An international border crosses a landscape that is spontaneously associated with a single city.
Zanzibar, Tanzania
The conflict of August 27, 1896 is often told with a timer too precise.
Mexico
The axolotl does not just close an injury: it can rebuild complex structures.
International research
A comparison between species makes the famous power of the planar even more interesting.
Oxford, United Kingdom
At the bottom of a tube, a reward remains inaccessible with a straight wire. Betty is changing the problem.
Venezuela
To separate learning from heredity, the researchers exchanged eggs between nests.
Tropical reefs
Behind its familiar colors, the clownfish has a surprising reproductive cycle.
Earth orbit
A 2007 experiment sent tardigrades in conditions very far from their usual environment.
Peru Andes
To preserve this bridge, communities do not seek to preserve its ropes forever.
Turkey Mountain communities
A word can change shape to cross the distance.
Spain La Gomera, Canary
On this island, orally transmitted knowledge also entered the classrooms.
South Korea
The kimjang tells as much a collective organization as a food preparation.
Finland
Why protect a practice as daily as the sauna?
Morocco Marrakech
The heritage of Jemaa el-Fna is not just about what you can photograph.
Arabian Peninsula Bedouin Communities
A job on the ground can carry a collective memory.
Belgium Oostduinkerke
On this coastline, a draft horse can also be a fishing partner.
United States and Canada Point Roberts
A straight line on a map is sometimes enough to complicate all journeys.
Bering Strait Russia and United States
Two nearby islands are separated by more than one body of water.
Bolivia Salar de Uyuni
This expanse of salt fascinates photographers, but also those who measure the Earth.
Russia Lake Baikal
On the ice, huge rings signal activity hidden beneath the surface.
Mauritania Plateau de l’Adrar
A spectacular circular shape has long suggested the wrong explanation.
Canada Victoria Island, Nunavut
The card can be read as a set of nested dolls.
Canada Quebec, Manicouagan
An old impact and a recent development have drawn together this landscape.
Botswana Okavango Delta
In this wetland, water and fire are not always simple opposites.
Its amazing power is not to resist everything: it is to change the course of its development.
The riddle of wombat droppings leads to an unexpected factory: its intestine.
In Albany, a four-legged regular becomes the companion of itinerant postal workers.
To become more transparent at rest, this frog changes the circulation of its red blood cells.
The Wood Frog is going through a state that many other animals would not survive.
In the cold waters, the Greenland shark blurs our idea of a long life.
The circulatory system of the octopus divides the work between several pumps.
In an experiment, insects choose to handle objects without food reward.
Jeanne Baret embarks on a maritime world that prohibits her presence as a woman.
Behind a Hollywood career, Hedy Lamarr also leads a work of invention.
Nellie Bly turns the challenge of a novel into a real journey.
Ada Lovelace foresees uses of calculation that exceed numbers.
Henrietta Swan Leavitt finds a decisive link in stars that change their radiance.
To subtract two gold medals from the Nazis, a chemist makes them lose their shape.
The Vasa had to embody power. His first trip became a disaster.
Archaeological research joins a forgotten tomb in the heart of Leicester.
A corroded object reveals an unexpected mechanical sophistication.
In Sutton Hoo, the absence of a skeleton was not the last word of the investigation.
In Boston, a familiar liquid reveals the violence that can take an immense amount of material.
A 1947 incident gives a literal illustration of a word already in use.
An amazing formula hides two different ways to measure a day.
Some terrestrial trees began their story by a detour around the Moon.
A snack bar on board in 1965 reminds us that weightlessness changes the simplest gestures.
Voyager probes take a sound and visual portrait of the Earth.
Titan has familiar landscapes whose chemistry changes everything.
In the Valley of Death, furrows have long betrayed movements without witnesses.
An experiment launched in 1927 puts our patience to the test.
In Oklo, Gabon, geology has created the conditions for a natural nuclear reaction.
Mary Anning’s discovery seems at first too strange to be authentic.
Rosetta stone is precious because its text responds to itself.
On some dead branches, the ice grows in filaments of surprising finesse.
In Antarctica, a red flow owes its color to a transformation of matter.
Alan Shepard takes to the Moon a surprisingly terrestrial gesture.
A contaminated crop becomes interesting because of what no longer grows.
Lituya Bay, Alaska, USA
A landslide threw water from a fjord onto a ridge. The forest keeps track of it.
Vajont and Longarone, Italy
In 1963, a slope collapses in a restraint. The dam remains standing, but the valley is devastated.
Armero, Colombia
The Nevado del Ruiz did not send lava to Armero: mudslides followed the valleys.
Yungay, Peru
In 1970, an earthquake triggered on the Huascarn an avalanche of rock and ice that destroyed Yungay.
Mount Saint Helens, Washington, USA
In 1980, the collapse of the northern flank released a lateral explosion before the large ash column.
Katmai and Novarupta, Alaska, United States
In 1912, the giant eruption of Novarupta emptied a magmatic system linked to Mount Katmai.
Laki, Iceland, and Europe, 1783
A persistent dry haze accompanies a very distant eruption and leaves traces in the observations of the time.
Strait of the Sunda, Indonesia
In 1883, the collapse of much of Krakatau produced deadly tsunamis.
Tangiwai, New Zealand
At Christmas 1953, a Ruapehu lahar weakened a railway bridge a few minutes before the passage of an express.
Aberfan, Wales
In 1966, a water-saturated slurry turns into a flow and reaches the village and its school.
Frank, AB, Canada
In 1903, the collapse of Turtle Mountain buried part of Frank and shut down a mine.
Oso, WA, United States
The slide of 2014 covers an exceptionally large distance for this slope.
Vatnajkkull and Skeiarrsandur, Iceland
In 1996, water from a subglacial eruption suddenly released towards the coastal plain.
Flannan Islands, Scotland
In December 1900, the new generation discovered an empty lighthouse. The archives distinguish real clues from invented narratives.
Atlantic, near the Azores, 1872
The Mary Celeste is found without her ten occupants and without her boat. Their fate remains unknown.
Canadian Arctic, King William Island
The Erebus and Terror, left in 1845, are found in 2014 and 2016 after an expedition without return.
Weddell Sea and Elephant Island, Antarctica
Shackleton's expedition lost the Endurance, but the men of that ship survived a long wait.
Mississippi, near Memphis, United States
In 1865, former prisoners of war climbed on an overloaded steam whose boilers exploded.
Lake Superior, USA and Canada
The sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald reminds us that a large lake can produce a deadly storm.
Sierra Nevada, CA, United States
In 1846, families en route to California were stranded in the snow after an ill-advised route.
Tambora, Indonesia, and Northern Hemisphere
The eruption of 1815 contributed to the cold and poor harvests of 1816, the “year without summer”.
Thistle, Utah, USA
In 1983, a slide created a natural restraint that engulfed a locality.
Hope, British Columbia, Canada
The collapse of 1965 abruptly ended a mountain movement that had begun long before.
Saint-Pierre, Martinique, France
On May 8, 1902, a fiery cloud descended Mount Pelee and reached the city.
Mount Rainier and Puget Sound, USA
About 5,600 years ago, part of the Rainier turned into a flow that covered more than a hundred kilometers.
Goiânia, Brazil
In 1987, an abandoned medical source caused an urban radiological accident.
New Jersey, USA
The luminous paint on the dials hid radium exposure.
United States and Canada
Six radiotherapy accidents make Therac-25 a major case of computer safety.
Windscale, United Kingdom
Windscale’s chimney had a late protection that proved essential.
Seveso, Italy
In July 1976, a toxic release affected the surroundings of the Icmesa plant.
Flixborough, United Kingdom
In 1974, a bypass between reactors became a critical point of the installation.
Schweizerhalle, Switzerland
The fire of 1 November 1986 produced an ecological disaster beyond Basel.
Minamata, Japan
Methylmercury pollution enters the diet and reaches the nervous system.
Donora, PA, United States
In October 1948, an atmospheric inversion suddenly worsened industrial pollution.
London, United Kingdom
The Grand Smog of December 1952 imprisons smoke and gas above the capital.
Hartford, CT, United States
In July 1944, a fire devastated the big tent of the circus.
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
In November 1942, the fire revealed insufficient or unusable exits.
New York, United States
The Triangle fire of 1911 exposed the failures of the exits of a factory.
Texas City, Texas, USA
The Grandcamp exploded on 16 April 1947 while loading an industrial cargo.
Feyzin, France
A propane leak preceded the refinery disaster in January 1966.
Tacoma, WA, United States
The Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed a few months after it opened in 1940.
Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Two suspended walkways collapsed in the lobby of the Hyatt Regency in 1981.
Chicago, Illinois, USA
A fire struck the Iroquois Theatre a few weeks after it opened in 1903.
Halifax, Canada
The collision of two ships preceded the explosion of the port in December 1917.
Bhopal, India
A toxic release hit the neighborhood of a pesticide factory in December 1984.
Tokaimura, Japan
In September 1999, a criticality reaction occurred at a fuel conversion facility.
Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
A Dartmouth researcher was fatally exposed in 1996 despite her usual protections.
United States
A liquid drug distributed in 1937 caused more than 100 deaths.
Philadelphia, PA, United States
A series of pneumonias observed in 1976 led to the identification of Legionella.
Milwaukee, WI, United States
In 1993, a large epidemic of cryptosporidiosis is associated with distributed water.
Florida, USA; laboratory study
In a Florida ant, the observed care varies depending on the location of the injury.
Queensland, Australia
The males of the large gardener place the small objects near the observation point of the female.
Off the coast of Japan
A Japanese pufferfish constructs a geometric structure much larger than its body.
Marine environments
Algae, sponges and sometimes anemones become the camouflage of some decorative crabs.
Southeast Alaska, United States
Humpback whales adjust bubble networks to concentrate the krill.
North American Atlantic Coast
Elysia chlorotica retains algae chloroplasts capable of continuing their photosynthesis.
Japan; laboratory observations
Marine slugs were observed after a dramatic separation between their head and body.
Suaq Balimbing, Sumatra, Indonesia
Rakus was observed using a liana directly on a wound in the face.
Laboratory study; African naked mole rat
In the laboratory, the naked mole rat uses an unusual metabolic pathway when oxygen is lacking.
Samburu and Amboseli, Kenya
Broadcast recordings and tests support the existence of individualized calls.
Zambia
Anomalospize lines can mimic the eggs of several host species.
Farne Islands, United Kingdom; Antarctica
A followed tern connected the United Kingdom to Antarctica.
Colonies of Flamingos
By feeding their young, the flamingos can fade.
Panama: Study in Captivity
Common vampires gradually form food-sharing relationships.
Study in aquarium
The camouflage of the cuttlefish combines color with three-dimensional surface modifications.
Vanderbilt University, USA; experiences
Experiments show an electrical defense directed at a partially submerged conductive object.
Kobe University, Japan
An aquatic insect survived an unusual crossing observed in the laboratory.
Coastlines; control laboratories
A reaction of limule blood to bacterial toxins is used in control tests.
University of Michigan, USA
Fuscatus polists learn particularly well the faces of wasps of his species.
Study of experimental colonies
The social experience improves the precision of the dance that indicates a food resource.
Beinecke Library, Yale, USA
Preserved at Yale, the Voynich manuscript remains undecrypted.
Saint-Jean-de-Luz, Drome, France
Ferdinand Cheval transformed an idea born during his tour into an ideal Palace.
Stanstead/Derby Line, Canada and United States
The border crosses the Haskell Theatre.
Paris, France
The accommodation reserved by Gustave Eiffel was mainly used to receive and work.
West Orange, NJ, United States
A tiny phonograph made Edison’s commercial dolls speak.
Newport, Wales, United Kingdom
The Newport ferry bridge moves its cargo under a high structure.
Broom Bridge, Dublin
William Rowan Hamilton associated his discovery of the quaternions with a walk in 1843.
Livermore, CA, United States
Livermore's lamp owes its fame to its longevity, not to a total absence of cuts.
Prague, Czech Republic
The Prague Astronomical Clock has a different real story than its most famous one.
Jeju, Republic of Korea
In Jeju, freediving is associated with a collective culture.
Main belt of asteroids
The moon Selam consists of two small bodies in contact.
Pluto Sputnik Planitia
Some of Pluto’s nitrogen ice is renewed by convection.
Kepler-16 System
Kepler-16b orbits around a pair of stars.
Mars - Jezero Crater
Perseverance filmed the passage of Phobos in front of the Sun.
Saturn Mi Mimas
The crater Herschel deeply marks the moon Mimas.
Solar Crown
Parker Solar Probe measured the solar corona from the inside.
Saturn
Janus and Epimetheus alternate between two very close orbits.
Ceres crater Occator
The bright areas of Ceres are deposits of salts.
Comet 9P/Tempel 1
Deep Impact hit Tempel 1 to analyze the ejected material.
Saturn
Particles from the rings join Saturn’s atmosphere.
Nijmegen Netherlands
An intense magnetic field made it possible to levitate a live frog.
NIST United States
The discovery of quasicrystals broadened the notion of order in solids.
Manchester United Kingdom
Graphite layers were separated to graphene.
Guadeloupe mangroves
Thiomargarita magnifica forms cells visible to the naked eye.
Sntis Switzerland
A Swiss campaign showed that a laser could guide a landfill for several tens of meters.
MITUnis United States
Repeated measurements reconstructed the path of a light pulse.
Privernum, Italy search MIT
Tests of concrete inspired by the Romans showed a repair of cracks.
CERN Switzerland
ALPHA-g observed the effect of gravity on antihydrogen.
Physics and biology laboratories
A focused laser beam can trap and manipulate microscopic objects.
HarvardUnis United States
A sequence of images was encoded and then reconstructed from living bacteria.
Cryptocurrencies Incident of October 29, 2026
Billions are leaving Binance’s portfolios. How to track transfers and immobilize part of the funds? An investigation still opened on October 30, 2026.
21 February 2025 Cryptocurrencies
About $1.5 billion stolen by targeting the tool used to verify a transaction.
Campaigns revealed in 2015 International Banks
Intruders learn internal procedures instead of just stealing customers’ passwords.
23 March 2022 Pont Ronin
The system requires multiple validations; attackers gather precisely the necessary number.
10 August 2021 Decentralized finance
A lack of control between contracts allows a spectacular diversion, followed by restitution.
26 January 2018 Japan
A NEM reserve exposed in an online portfolio leads to a major crisis.
6 October 2022 BNB Chain
Two million BNBs are obtained fraudulently; validators interrupt the network.
11–12 November 2022 · Cryptocurrencies
Bankruptcy and piracy are two different cases, occurring almost at the same time.
Intrusion from 2011 Public crisis in 2014
The disappearance of bitcoins spreads over time before becoming a visible disaster.
February 2, 2022 Ethereum and Solana
A validation failure is enough to produce 120,000 ethers represented without corresponding reservation.
31 May 2024 Japan
According to the authorities, a professional approach serves as a starting point for the flight of about $308 million.
September 2020 Cryptocurrency platform
Theft touches the keys of online portfolios; the response mobilizes issuers, platforms and investigators.
13 March 2023 Decentralized finance
A lack of accounting logic leads to the misappropriation of about 197 million, and then to unusual trading.
December 2021 Cryptocurrencies
A compromise of keys leads to a theft whose initial estimates exceed $150 million.
August 1, 2022 Bridge between blockchains
A validation error turns an initial flight into a collective rush on reserves.
17 April 2022 Decentralized governance
The decision-making power can be acquired temporarily and then used before being rendered.
August 2016 · Major seizure in 2022
The loot is gaining value as investigators rebuild its circulation.
February 2016 Bangladesh, New York and Philippines
The payment network receives seemingly legitimate messages, but prepared by intruders.
17 June–20 July 2016 · Ethereum
A contract breach sparks a debate about how to fix a supposedly immutable ledger.
May–June 2021 · United States
The attack affects the company’s computer system; the operational shutdown amplifies the crisis.
27 June 2017 Ukraine and international spread
A compromised update serves as a starting point for an attack that quickly exceeds its first victims.
12 May 2017 International attack
Hospitals suffer the consequences of a program that encrypts files and spreads between machines.
Discovered in 2010 Industrial facilities
The software looks for a precise industrial environment before modifying the physical operation.
Revealed in December 2020 Companies and administrations
Victims install expected software, but part of the manufacturing process has been compromised.
2017 · United States
The danger comes from a patch that is not applied, and then an intrusion that persists.
Intrusion of 2014 Accusations published in 2017
Hackers aren’t just looking for a list of passwords: they are targeting mechanisms that recognize users.
Discovered in 2015 United States
Security investigation information exposes much more than a business address book.
November–December 2014 · United States
The attack combines document leaks, sabotage and threats against a film company.
2 November 1988 University Internet
Long before modern ransomware, a worm reveals the fragility of an already interconnected network.
4 May 2000 International spread
An emotional promise and a misleading attachment speed up the spread of a worm.
2016 Connected objects and DNS service Dyn
The attack uses the weakness of small devices to hit an infrastructure that many services depend on.
April–May 2007 · Estonia
Banks, media and public services face a saturation campaign during a political crisis.
23 December 2015 Ukrainian power grids
The investigation describes a computer intrusion followed by commands affecting distribution equipment.
9 February 2018 PyeongChang, South Korea
Sabotage refers to the systems that accompany the ceremony and the organization of the Olympic Games.
November–December 2013 · United States
Card data is captured in stores after an intrusion progresses through the network.
A ping-pong opponent does not need legs to force a player to react.
In 2023, a drone race pits an autonomous system against three human champions.
Did you know that a programming agent deleted a database when he had to avoid modifying the production? In July two thousand twenty-five, Jason Lemkin recounts the incident that occurred during the construction of his application with Replit.
Did you know that a go shot played by a machine became famous all over the world? In March two thousand and sixteen, AlphaGo faced Lee Sedol.
Did you know that an artificial intelligence has surpassed poker professionals without seeing their cards? In two thousand nineteen, Pluribus plays Texas Hold'em with no limit to six players.
Did you know that the chess world champion lost a match to a computer long before the chatbots? In May nineteen hundred and ninety-seven, Deep Blue, developed by IBM, defeated Garry Kasparov.
Did you know that a team of five AI agents beat world champions in a real-time game? On 13 April 2019, OpenAI Five faced OG in Dota 2.
Did you know that a humanoid robot has already participated in the manufacture of thousands of cars? BMW reports that in two thousand twenty-five, Figure Two helped produce more than thirty thousand X-three models.
Did you know that an artificial intelligence has reached the gold medal level at the International Mathematical Olympiad? In two thousand twenty-five, a search version of Gemini Deep Think solves five out of six problems.
Did you know that an artificial intelligence ranked ahead of ninety-nine decimal eight percent of active players in a strategy game? In two thousand nineteen, AlphaStar reaches the Grandmaster level in StarCraft two.
Did you know that an artificial intelligence competed with elite drivers in a racing simulator? The works published in two thousand twenty-two present Gran Turismo Sophy.
Did you know that an AI learned go without first copying human parts? In two thousand seventeen, AlphaGo Zero trains by playing against himself.
Did you know that a learning system by its own games has beaten a great chess engine? The results published in two thousand and eighteen compare AlphaZero and Stockfish.
Did you know that an artificial intelligence has achieved results in a game where you have to negotiate? In two thousand twenty-two, CICERO plays Diplomacy.
Did you know that a robot played table tennis against twenty-nine people? DeepMind's study published in two thousand twenty-four describes thirteen games won.
Did you know that a four-legged robot learned to cross obstacles by parkour? The work of ETH Zurich in two thousand twenty-four presents ANYmal in controlled routes.
Did you know that a robot chemist conducted six hundred and eighty-eight experiments in eight days? In two thousand twenty, a team from Liverpool describes its laboratory robot.
Did you know that a robotic hand learned to manipulate a Rubik's Cube? In two thousand nineteen, OpenAI presents a demonstration with one hand.
Did you know that artificial intelligence has increased productivity in customer service? The study published in two thousand twenty-five follows five thousand one hundred seventy-two agents.
Did you know that an experiment measured the effect of a chatbot on professional writing tasks? The researchers studied four hundred and fifty-three graduates.
Did you know that a study with consultants showed gains with AI, but not in all tasks? It follows seven hundred and fifty-eight BCG consultants.
Did you know that a database offers the predicted structures of more than two hundred million proteins? In two thousand twenty-two, AlphaFold expands this resource.
Did you know that an AI model outperformed a reference system in tests? In two thousand twenty-four, researchers present GenCast.
Did you know that an artificial intelligence has found a way to use fewer multiplications for a matrix calculation? AlphaTensor is presented in two thousand twenty-two.
Did you know that an artificial intelligence has discovered sorting methods in a library? In two thousand twenty-three, AlphaDev is presented as a search for more effective instructions.
Did you know that an AI-assisted search spotted a molecule against bacteria? In two thousand and twenty, researchers describe halicin.
Did you know that one study found slower developers with the help of AI? In two thousand twenty-five, METR observes sixteen experienced developers on their projects.
Did you know that an AI agent was given the management of an experimental shop? In two thousand twenty-five, Project Vend entrusts Claudius with certain decisions.
Did you know that a code agent deleted a production volume after finding an access token? In April two thousand twenty-six, Railway described the PocketOS incident.
Did you know that a chatbot gave the wrong information and the company had to compensate the customer? The February decision two thousand twenty-four concerns Air Canada.
Did you know that lawyers cited decisions that did not exist? In the Mata v. Avianca case, in two thousand twenty-three, references produced by ChatGPT are filed in court.
Did you know that teams using AI have overtaken reference growers in a greenhouse contest? Wageningen describes the experiment completed in two thousand twenty.
Did you know that an artificial intelligence piloted the shape of a plasma in a Swiss tokamak? In two thousand twenty-two, EPFL and DeepMind describe their experience on TCV.
Evo models offer genomes of bacteriophages; sixteen viable viruses are obtained in the laboratory, without demonstration of treatment in patients.
During an assessment with reduced protections, OpenAI agents cross the planned perimeter and compromise Hugging Face infrastructures.
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