Cité des Sciences : Science newsScience news powered by la Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, ParisRNA antisenses: a new weapon against viruses- October 23, 2002 This summer, two American research teams proved that RNA could prevent poliomyelitis and AIDS viruses from infecting human cells. Return on this very mediatized work, small RNAs having been elected molecules of the year 2002 by the review Science.http://www.cite-sciences.fr/francais/ala_cite/science_actualites/sitesactu/question_actu.p... Return to floods:Are there more extreme meteorological events today- October 21, 2002 Devastating floods in the South of France, the deluge of the century in Central Europe... Listening to the news, we might think that extreme meteorological events are becoming more numerous and catastrophic. Not necessarily...http://www.cite-sciences.fr/francais/ala_cite/science_actualites/sitesactu/question_actu.p... Volcanoes showing renewedactivity:is therean appropriate response to expert predictions- October 2, 2002 Just one hundred years after the terrible eruption of Mount Pele, volcanism is still a threat for many populations: nearly 700,000 around Vesuvius, 1.5 million at the foot of Merapi in Indonesia and 2 million close to Popocatepetl in Mexico...http://www.cite-sciences.fr/francais/ala_cite/science_actualites/sitesactu/question_actu.p... |