The CNRS and Inria have joined the ScanPyramids mission to develop a robotic concept that is as least invasive as possible to explore hard-to-reach places such as the Cheops pyramid. The folded robot can slip through a 3.5 cm diameter hole drilled in a wall, to deploy on the other side taking the
Anthropology has long argued that tool making was what set our human ancestors apart from other primates. Now a new study suggests that it wasnt really the creation of tools but their miniaturization that was the key to human evolution. In an article published in Evolutionary Anthropology Justin Pa
The project is led by Yves Coppens, as he explains in this video shot during the 6th Knowledge Cruise of Sciences et Avenir. The megaliths of Morbihan, on their way to Unesco. MENHIRS. It has just been completed after having sailed in the Adriatic. The 6th Knowledge Cruise of Sciences et Avenir be
Pen and inkwell The need to communicate and to fix ones thoughts has belonged to mankind since the dawn of civilization, an inalienable desire which, in the absence of adequate means and comfort, has been satisfied from the beginning with the help of the tools made available by nature. Thanks