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From the honeymoon phase to heartbreak: What the four relationship stages reveal about how we make, break and change our lifestyle habits. Adil Celebiyev StokPhoto/Shutterstock

Valentine’s Day: What’s love got to do with habit‑building?

Our romances tell us a lot about how we live our lives and vice versa. They can help us make informed choices about changing and breaking habits or developing new ones.
AI-generated images, in response to the prompt: “Draw me a skyscraper and a sliding trombone side-by-side so that I can appreciate their respective sizes” (left by ChatGPT, right by Gemini)

When AI goes haywire: the case of the skyscraper and the slide trombone

A relatively simple experiment involving asking a generative AI to compare two objects of very different sizes allows us to reflect on the limitations of these technologies.
CEOs are mixing business and politics beyond the boardroom. NYCKellyWilliams/Shutterstock

Is CEO activism threatening democracy?

Could Business leaders’ political involvement threaten democracy? And could similar dynamics emerge in Europe?
In terms of gaining life expectancy, some areas in Europe stand out, like the East German town of Magdeburg (Land de Saxe-Anhalt). Margitta Hamel/Shutterstock

Where are Europe’s oldest people living? What geography tells us about a fragmenting continent

Analysis of mortality data spanning 450 regions in Europe is categorical: longevity across the continent is a two-tier affair.
The teenage years can be a time that resonates strongly with strategies designed by social media to ensnare users in a vicious circle that’s hard to get out of. Halfpoint/Shutterstock

Social media is boosting mental health disorders and suicidal thoughts among teens, particularly in girls

Tik Tok, Instagram, Youtube… Social Media is driving offline disorders among teenagers, suggests a large-scale report by French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (Anses).
74th F-89 Interceptor Fighter Squadron at Thule Air Base in Greenland in 1955. United States Air Force - Menard, David W. / Wikipedia

Greenland: staying with the Polar Inuit. How a secret military base helped trigger the silent collapse of an Arctic world

In 1951, the French Explorer Jean Malaurie witnessed the building of a US military base in Greenland in near total secrecy, which marked an irreversible turning point for Inuit societies.

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