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Aerial view of the treatment basins at the Daugavgrīva wastewater treatment plant

Nature and environment · Nov 8, 2026Wastewater: what treatment removes and what can still get throughFrom the toilet to the river, wastewater passes through several treatment stages. But treatment does not make water fit to drink or remove every substance: the sewer network and rainfall matter too.

Catering under a tent at an event hosted by the Canadian Film Centre

Cinema · Nov 8, 2026Film catering: feeding a crew to the rhythm of the setOn a film set, the canteen has to keep up with changes of location and schedule. Vincent Vial’s account sheds light on the challenges of mobile catering.

Vincent Munier at the Zurich Film Festival

Culture · Nov 8, 2026Vincent Munier, from the Vosges to the wildFrom the Vosges to the Arctic, Vincent Munier creates photographs in which mist, patience and silhouettes transform the way we look at wild animals.

Portrait of René Maran in a suit

Books · Nov 8, 2026René Maran’s « Batouala »: a Goncourt at the heart of the colonial contradictionWinner of the Goncourt in 1921, René Maran made « Batouala » a novel in which the African perspective shifts the colonial gaze. Its polemical preface and its fiction illuminate two distinct dimensions of his undertaking.

Portrait of Muhammad Ali with his arms crossed

TV series · Nov 8, 2026“The Greatest”: four years telling the story of Cassius Clay’s early daysAcross eight episodes, “The Greatest” follows four years of Cassius Clay’s early career, from his status as an Olympic champion to his victory over Sonny Liston. Its tight focus brings together boxing, racism, family and a change of name.

Watercress growing by the water

Food and dining · Nov 8, 2026Flacey watercress, from spring to plateIn Flacey, watercress is grown on the banks of the Flacière and sold, among other places, in Dijon. Whether raw in noodles or cooked in soup, it is easy to prepare, as long as you don’t confuse it with wild watercress.

Front-facing red fox near Nome, Alaska

Nature and environment · Nov 8, 2026Red foxes: understanding their role in the countrysideOmnivorous and adaptable, the red fox affects rural environments in several ways. Its effects on prey, seeds and ticks, however, depend on the context.

Grey slice of the Martian meteorite Teghaza 001

Space · Nov 8, 2026Teghaza 001, a meteorite that takes us back to Mars’s earliest rocksFound in Mali, Teghaza 001 contains minerals at least 4.1 billion years old. Its zircons and traces of alteration by water offer a rare window into Mars’s ancient crust.

Vegetation and glass structure inside Biosphere 2

Basic science · Nov 8, 2026Biosphere 2: how soil and concrete altered the oxygen balanceThe fall in oxygen levels in Biosphere 2 revealed an unexpected mechanism: the soil consumed oxygen while the concrete absorbed some of the carbon dioxide. A lesson in the limits of closed ecosystems.

Pink façade of Villa Kutter in Limpertsberg

Culture · Nov 8, 2026Villa Kutter: a house for reading modernity in LimpertsbergCommissioned by Joseph Kutter in 1928, the villa in Limpertsberg combines the forms of architectural modernity with a history of change. Its restoration sheds light on the choices involved in preserving a house while making it habitable today.

The façade of the François-Tosquelles hospital in Saint-Alban-sur-Limagnole.

Culture · Nov 8, 2026Saint-Alban: when a psychiatric hospital becomes a matter of connectionAt Saint-Alban, workshops, a library and links with the village contributed to a different way of thinking about the psychiatric hospital. The 1982 archive sheds light on this legacy without conflating it with current practice.

A yellow Amazon Hub Locker collection point in Tempe, Arizona.

AI · Nov 8, 2026Buying by text with Alexa: how far does Amazon’s agent go?Amazon is rolling out Alexa for Shopping by text in the United States: search, compare and shop in a conversation, initially by invitation. Here’s what the assistant automates and the practical limits of that promise.