SANTé/MEDECINE - Cancers féminins: les premières victoires

Décriptage - Sein, ovaires, utérus, endomètre… La mortalité est en baisse. Un futur institut hospitalo-universitaire (IHU) dédié aux tumeurs féminines verra bientôt le jour.

Plus d’un siècle que la guerre leur a été déclarée. Et dans certains cas, comme pour le cancer du poumon qui progresse avec la consommation de tabac au féminin, le tableau reste sombre. Et pourtant, c’est incontestable, des victoires ont été remportées contre le cancer du sein, du col de l’utérus ou d’autres tumeurs strictement féminines. Leurs taux de mortalité baissent régulièrement depuis plusieurs décennies. Et la bataille se poursuit…

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LE JARDIN MERVEILLEUX DES EPICES - Le paprika, l’épice qui pique

Le paprika -- du serbe « paprena », « celui qui pique » -- doit sa belle couleur rouge au piment doux ou au poivron dont il est issu. Côté saveur, il est apprécié pour son côté âcre et délicieusement piquant. Originaire d'Amérique du Sud et Centrale, il est aujourd'hui largement employé en Hongrie, en Espagne, en Turquie, au Maghreb ou même dans les pays tropicaux et en Asie.

Le paprika est notamment riche en fer. Il contient aussi des vitamines E, K et B. De quoi lui permettre de nous aider à lutter contre les maux de l'hiver, à éviter les anémies ou à diminuer les douleurs articulaires et à favoriser une bonne circulation sanguine.

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ASTRONOMY - In the Core of the Carina Nebula

 2024 February 5

In the Core of the Carina Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: Carlos Taylor

Explanation: What's happening in the core of the Carina Nebula? Stars are forming, dying, and leaving an impressive tapestry of dark dusty filaments. The entire Carina Nebula, cataloged as NGC 3372, spans over 300 light years and lies about 8,500 light-years away in the constellation of Carina. The nebula is composed predominantly of hydrogen gas, which emits the pervasive red and orange glows seen mostly in the center of this highly detailed featured image. The blue glow around the edges is created primarily by a trace amount of glowing oxygen. Young and massive stars located in the nebula's center expel dust when they explode in supernovas. Eta Carinae, the most energetic star in the nebula's center, was one of the brightest stars in the sky in the 1830s, but then faded dramatically.

MUSIC - Albinoni - Adagio - (Hauser)

"Adagio"

ASTRONOMY - The Cone Nebula from Hubble

 2024 February 4

The Cone Nebula from Hubble
Image Credit: Hubble Legacy Archive, NASA, ESA - Processing & Licence: Judy Schmidt

Explanation: Stars are forming in the gigantic dust pillar called the Cone Nebula. Cones, pillars, and majestic flowing shapes abound in stellar nurseries where natal clouds of gas and dust are buffeted by energetic winds from newborn stars. The Cone Nebula, a well-known example, lies within the bright galactic star-forming region NGC 2264. The Cone was captured in unprecedented detail in this close-up composite of several observations from the Earth-orbiting Hubble Space Telescope. While the Cone Nebula, about 2,500 light-years away in Monoceros, is around 7 light-years long, the region pictured here surrounding the cone's blunted head is a mere 2.5 light-years across. In our neck of the galaxy that distance is just over half way from our Sun to its nearest stellar neighbors in the Alpha Centauri star system. The massive star NGC 2264 IRS, seen by Hubble's infrared camera in 1997, is the likely source of the wind sculpting the Cone Nebula and lies off the top of the image. The Cone Nebula's reddish veil is produced by dust and glowing hydrogen gas.

O FUTURO NO PRESENTE - Showroom - O carro voador

O primeiro showroom do carro está a ser realizado na Alemanha, mais precisamente, em Munique. Este showroom de luxo em Munique irá apresentar as maravilhas do Pal-V Liberty.

Este evento foi projetado para oferecer uma experiência imersiva aos entusiastas de carros voadores. O showroom estará aberto a partir do final deste mês. Os visitantes do evento (e alguns clientes) terão a oportunidade de conhecer esta máquina de perto.

As primeiras unidades serão entregues até ao final do próximo ano. O carro voador irá levar a liberdade a novos patamares. A emoção de conduzir o carro voador será algo único. Algo que se pensava estar reservado apenas à ficção científica será realidade brevemente…

Pode ainda ver um vídeo que apresenta este carro PAL-V que prova que o futuro está bem mais perto do que se julga…

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ASTRONOMY - Apollo 14: A View from Antares

 2024 February 3

Apollo 14: A View from Antares
Image Credit: Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14, NASA; Mosaic - Eric M. Jones

Explanation: Apollo 14's Lunar Module Antares landed on the Moon on February 5, 1971. Toward the end of the stay astronaut Ed Mitchell snapped a series of photos of the lunar surface while looking out a window, assembled into this detailed mosaic by Apollo Lunar Surface Journal editor Eric Jones. The view looks across the Fra Mauro highlands to the northwest of the landing site after the Apollo 14 astronauts had completed their second and final walk on the Moon. Prominent in the foreground is their Modular Equipment Transporter, a two-wheeled, rickshaw-like device used to carry tools and samples. Near the horizon at top center is a 1.5 meter wide boulder dubbed Turtle rock. In the shallow crater below Turtle rock is the long white handle of a sampling instrument, thrown there javelin-style by Mitchell. Mitchell's fellow moonwalker and first American in space, Alan Shepard, also used a makeshift six iron to hit two golf balls. One of Shepard's golf balls is just visible as a white spot below Mitchell's javelin.

ASTRONOMY - NGC 1893 and the Tadpoles of IC 410

 2024 February 2

NGC 1893 and the Tadpoles of IC 410
Image Credit & Copyright: Sander de Jong

Explanation: This cosmic view shows off an otherwise faint emission nebula IC 410, captured under clear Netherlands skies with telescope and narrowband filters. Above and right of center you can spot two remarkable inhabitants of the interstellar pond of gas and dust, known as the tadpoles of IC 410. Partly obscured by foreground dust, the nebula itself surrounds NGC 1893, a young galactic cluster of stars. Formed in the interstellar cloud a mere 4 million years ago, the intensely hot, bright cluster stars energize the glowing gas. Globules composed of denser cooler gas and dust, the tadpoles are around 10 light-years long and are likely sites of ongoing star formation. Sculpted by stellar winds and radiation their heads are outlined by bright ridges of ionized gas while their tails trail away from the cluster's central young stars. IC 410 and embedded NGC 1893 lie some 10,000 light-years away, toward the nebula-rich constellation Auriga.

LE JARDIN MERVEILLEUX DES EPICES - La noix de muscade, l'épice au parfum envoûtant

Au Moyen-Âge, on disait que conserver une noix de muscade dans la poche pouvait préserver de la maladie. Aujourd'hui, on utilise cette épice râpée pour aromatiser les plats. Et quand approche Noël, ses saveurs de poivre et de cannelle, subtilement sucrées, nous enveloppent d'une chaude douceur.

Consommer de la noix de muscade aiderait à atténuer les troubles digestifs, à consolider la densité osseuse, à lutter contre le stress ou encore contre l'anémie. Elle soulagerait aussi les affections respiratoires. Mais comme son cousin, le macis, la noix de muscade, à fortes doses, a des effets psychotropes importants. 

© gokalpiscan/Frantisek_Krejci/Rmiss, Pixabay, CC0 Creative Commons

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ASTRONOMY - NGC 1365: Majestic Island Universe

 2024 February 1

NGC 1365: Majestic Island Universe
Image Credit & Copyright: Processing - Jean-Baptiste Auroux, Data - Mike Selby

Explanation: Barred spiral galaxy NGC 1365 is truly a majestic island universe some 200,000 light-years across. Located a mere 60 million light-years away toward the faint but heated constellation Fornax, NGC 1365 is a dominant member of the well-studied Fornax Cluster of galaxies. This sharp color image shows the intense, reddish star forming regions near the ends of the galaxy's central bar and along its spiral arms. Seen in fine detail, obscuring dust lanes cut across the galaxy's bright core. At the core lies a supermassive black hole. Astronomers think NGC 1365's prominent bar plays a crucial role in the galaxy's evolution, drawing gas and dust into a star-forming maelstrom and ultimately feeding material into the central black hole.