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The inventor of optogenetics to control the brain with light explains how this technique brings better treatments against mental illness
"We could have avoided on 17 October," says the economist Philippe Aghion, former advisor to Emmanuel Macron. At the microphone of "With Judith", the Nobel Prize in Economics 2025 presents its vision of innovation as the main engine of economic growth. Find the podcast in its entirety this Saturday noon on the YouTube channel of France 24.
The ashes of Miguel Ángel Asturias will return to Guatemala after 52 years in Paris. The 1967 Nobel Prize in Literature died in Spain in 1974 and spent much of his life in exile. Now, his family has decided to repatriate their remains after President Bernardo Arévalo's arrival in power, after rejecting the requests of the two previous governments. A return filled with symbolism for Guatemala and for the memory of one of its most universal writers. Erika Olavarría's report for France 24.
Venezuela’s Nobel laureate María Corina Machado returned to Caracas in a massive celebration after months in hiding and exile, sparking deep hope and sharp questions about the country’s political future.
The youngest scientist to receive the Tyler Prize, the informal Nobel Prize for the Environment, explains the role of fungi in the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems. Reduced in the popular imaginary to the edible, pathogens and psychedelic, she claims them as the great forgotten of science
