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Route du Rhum: Café Joyeux, a daggerboard boat and a collective storyNicolas d’Estais is due to set off on 1 November aboard an IMOCA launched in 2011. Its record and an interview with Simon Koster shed light on what is at stake in the crossing.
Denmark: bill sets out rules for teachers’ physical interventionIntroduced on 8 October 2026, Bill L 45 would widen the scope for physical intervention in response to serious disruption. The debate remains open, between protection and the risk of escalation.
“Les Misérables”, “Minotaur”, “The Corset”: three lives at breaking pointA former convict on the run, an entrepreneur in Russia in 2022, a child facing the constraints of a corset: three stories released in France on 14 October, each with a very different way in.
A fake bear created by AI, a real alert: how the context was lostThe street was real. The bear, however, had been added using an artificial intelligence tool. In Magdagachi, in Russia’s Far East, the photograph left a private exchange and triggered a search for an animal that did not exist.
In Pontacq, learning Carmen before singing it on stageTaking part in Carmen through the chorus, learning the score and then working on performance with professionals: this is the programme announced in Pontacq for the first half of 2027.
Flying in the mountains: what a blue sky doesn’t tell the pilotSunshine, good visibility, and yet descending air currents or severe turbulence: in the mountains, the landscape can look welcoming while the air is much less so.
Route du Rhum: behind the solo sailor, the boat preparer’s workAlexis Loison’s trials inform the work on shore with Yvon Larnicol. Before the start on 1 November, fine-tuning involves more than the skipper alone.
An AI hides messages in its images: what does the experiment really prove?Researchers hid 50 messages in drawings produced by Claude Fable 5.1. A separate session recovered 39. What the experiment demonstrates—and what it does not tell us.
How shells preserve traces of the marine climateGrowth lines, isotopes and chemical analyses: researchers use shells as ocean archives, while taking care not to confuse local signals with the global climate.
Beneath the Moon, a pit is not enough to reveal an entire caveImages, radar and thermal measurements shed light on lunar cavities. But an entrance spotted from orbit reveals neither the extent of the underground nor whether it is habitable.
In Valloire, cani-hiking turns a walk into a chance to meet the huskiesWalking connected to a Nordic dog, learning the musher’s techniques and discovering the trails around Bonnenuit: how does a cani-hike work, how much does it cost and what age is it suitable for?
Weather and AI: what Dubai and forecasts several weeks ahead revealTwo studies from October 2026 shed light on progress in AI forecasting. Their findings relate to specific models, lead times and tests.