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By 2030, the European Commission wants all EU citizens and residents to hold an EUDI wallet: one safe digital ID for cross-border travel, work or using public services, or making payments and signing documents. Nednapa/Shutterstock

European digital identity wallets: how secure are they and what are the risks?

Maryline Laurent, Télécom SudParis – Institut Mines-Télécom and Claire Levallois-Barth, Institut Mines-Télécom (IMT)

EU digital ID wallets will make it easier for citizens and residents to prove their identity, and safely store, share and sign important digital documents within the EU. But digital applications aren’t totally risk-free.
A scene taken from the French film l’Histoire de Souleymane about an asylum-seeking delivery worker is food for thought: behind the convenience of ordering food and other goods to your door lies a far murkier reality; for many delivery platform workers precarity is part and parcel of their daily grind. Pyramide Distribution

Delivery platform workers: a survey lifts the lid on extreme hardship

Marwân-al-Qays Bousmah, Ined (Institut national d'études démographiques); Annabel Desgrées du Loû, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD); Anne Gosselin, Ined (Institut national d'études démographiques); Flore Gubert, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD); Université Paris Dauphine – PSL, and Kevin Poperl, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD)

An unprecedented occupational health study on takeaway delivery workers in France reveals shocking working conditions amid Europe-wide debate on their entitlement to standard employee rights.
As early as 1917, the Michelin company invested in plantations to produce rubber in what is now Vietnam. Here, hevea trees are seen in Southeast Asia in 1913. W. F. de Bois Maclaren, The Rubber Tree Book.

How ongoing deforestation is rooted in colonialism and its management practices

Justine Loizeau, Aalto University; Antoine Fabre, Université Paris Dauphine – PSL; Clément Boyer, Université Paris Dauphine – PSL, and Pierre Labardin, IAE La Rochelle

The world’s remaining great primary forests, including those in Borneo, the Amazon and the Congo basin, are still threatened by deforestation. This harmful practice often has colonial origins.
The largest telescopes in the world are used to look at the atmospheres of planets orbiting other stars and located at astronomical distances. Y. Beletsky(LCO)/ESO

A new study reveals the structure of violent winds 1,300 light years away

Vivien Parmentier, Université Côte d’Azur and Julia Victoria Seidel, Observatoire Européen Austral

Scientists already knew how to study the chemical composition of the atmosphere of exoplanets. Now, they can also study details about their powerful winds.
Location of the Buran Kaya III (1), Zlatý Kůň (2), Fournol (3), Serinyà (4), Krems-Wachtberg (5) and Věstonice (6) archeological sites, whose remains were were analysed in the study. Also shown are one of the analysed skull fragments and pierced beads discovered with the bone fragments from the Buran Kaya III site, as well as the Venus statuettes from Věstonice, Willendorf and the Dame de Brassempouy (from right to left). E-M. Geigl

Skulls in Ukraine reveal early modern humans came from the East

Eva-Maria Geigl, Université Paris Cité and Thierry Grange, Université Paris Cité

Genetic analysis of two skull fragments dating back almost 40,000 years shows that our species colonised Europe from the east and interbred with our Neanderthal cousins.

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