Cité des Sciences : Science newsScience news powered by la Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, ParisExtrasolar planets: who took the first picture- April 29, 2005 Between March and April 2005, three different teams of scientists managed to pick up light from extrasolar planets "for the first time". Yet we showed you a first picture in September 2004...http://www.cite-sciences.fr/francais/ala_cite/science_actualites/sitesactu/question_actu.p... Touma: the latest (and final) episode in the controversy- April 21, 2005 Three years after the discovery of Touma in Chad, new fossils and a three-dimensional reconstruction of his skull have shed a little more light on this remarkable find. For the discoverer of Touma, Michel Brunet, this new data further strengthens the evidence for its being the oldest hominid uncovered to date.http://www.cite-sciences.fr/francais/ala_cite/science_actualites/sitesactu/question_actu.p... Homo floresiensis: meet the latest member of the family- April 7, 2005 The year is 16 000 BC. Ever since the Neanderthals had vanished several thousand years before the world is entirely occupied by Homo sapiens. Well, not entirely... On the Indonesian island of Flores, some hominines still hold out against the invaders. Their name: Homo floresiensis.http://www.cite-sciences.fr/francais/ala_cite/science_actualites/sitesactu/question_actu.p... |