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E1 : Ouragan Sur Bulle

1 min 29 s
Researchers from the CNRS had the idea to use soap bubbles to model the movement of real cyclones! By heating the base of the bubble and cooling its top, convection currents appear on its surface and form a beautiful vortex.
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E2 : Vertigineuses Fractales

1 min 28 s
Do you feel like you're hallucinating or dizzy? No, you are not watching a psychedelic clip from the 1970s! These images are the product of mathematical calculations, a field that researchers call 'fractals'.
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E3 : Les Piliers De La Création

1 min 30 s
Attention masterpiece !... This is one of the 'star' images of the Hubble Space Telescope. Astronomers call this region of the sky the 'Columns of Creation'. It is our Universe. But what is the use of having eyes in the sky?
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E4 : Sang Pour Sang

1 min 25 s
Today, CNRS researchers are trying to establish a link between the patterns that appear on a drop of dried blood and diseases that affect blood composition.
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E5 : Cyto

1 min 37 s
Actin is the substance that constitutes the cytoskeleton, that is, the skeleton of our cells. Researchers had fun extracting this substance from cells to see how it behaves.
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E6 : Nourriture Spirituelle

1 min 39 s
When we run our brains, we use well-known cells called neurons; and to make them work, we have to give them energy! But who provides them?
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E7 : Le Choc Des Titans

1 min 33 s
Could it be an alien ultrasound? You are looking far, far away in space... Here is Stephan's quintet, a group of five galaxies located in the constellation of Pegasus. Enjoy these filaments of stars and gas !
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E8 : Tous Câbles

1 min 25 s
You are probably already familiar with this kind of image: by measuring the sugar consumption of different parts of the brain, researchers deduce the activity of different brain areas. But what are the interconnections between these areas?
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E9 : Cristal D'oeuf

1 min 29 s
You see these little crystals, that take beautiful colors when illuminated with a special light? They are tiny and they are made from ... egg. The study of crystals allows researchers to develop new medicines.
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E10 : Matière Grise

1 min 28 s
Animal, vegetable or mineral? Well no, cerebral! You are looking at a grey cell. In other words: a neuron! From the cell to the axon, the guided tour begins!
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E11 : Les Yeux Dans Les Cieux

1 min 21 s
All these stars are in our galaxy, several million billion kilometers from us. Photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope, they belong to the family of planetary nebulae.
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E12 : Beautés Océanes

1 min 29 s
Welcome to the wonderful world of plankton! Plankton are tiny living creatures that are carried in the water.
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E13 : Carton Rouge

1 min 32 s
This is a satellite photo of a small part of Kansas. And those disks? Fields watered by a rotary sprinkler system. The red color highlights the wettest areas where the vegetation is densest due to the intensive irrigation, not without ecological impact.
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E14 : Avis De Tempête - Éruption Solaire

1 min 33 s
Here is the Sun, as seen by the American Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite.
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E15 : L'antiquité En 3d

1 min 35 s
Take a look here and project yourself 2,400 years back in time: Greek columns, there you are! We are in Delphi, in front of the Tholos. In 2013, French researchers digitized the famous rotunda with this portable scanner.
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    Subjects:
    French as a Second Language Listening Science and technology Biology Chemistry Earth and Space Systems
    Skills:
    Collaboration Communication Innovation Critical Thinking
    Themes:
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    French level:
    B1: Threshold B2: Vantage