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Adapting the Planétarium experience to the sensory sensitivities of people with autism

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Adapter l’expérience du Planétarium aux sensibilités sensorielles des personnes autistes

Adapting the Planétarium experience to the sensory sensitivities of people with autism

May 7, 2025

How do you feel when you’re invited for supper and your hosts bear in mind your preferences, your comfort, and maybe even your favorite dish? What a...Read more

Discovering the Universe through the words of Hubert Reeves

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Discovering the Universe through the words of Hubert Reeves

March 12, 2025

Olivier Hernandez

I still remember December 1984 as though it were yesterday. That year, at Christmas, I opened Hubert Reeves’ book Patience dans l’azur for the first...Read more

The passion of discovery

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The passion of discovery

April 29, 2024

Farah Alibay

I have a genuine passion for my work, fueled by my thirst for discovery and my curiosity for the unknown, sparked at a very early age by science...Read more

Total eclipses of the Sun: a pretext for a trip!

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L’éclipse totale du 22 juillet 2009 observée depuis le point de plus longue durée, dans le Pacifique, au large du Japon.

Total eclipses of the Sun: a pretext for a trip!

April 3, 2024

Marc Jobin

The total eclipse of the Sun on April 8, 2024, observable in southern Québec, is an opportunity to reflect on the rarity of these grand-scale...Read more

From your balcony right up to the stars!

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From your balcony right up to the stars!

February 28, 2024

Loïc Quesnel

The Earth is our natural spaceship, and carries us along on its journey through space. Its movements provide the rhythm for our measurement of time,...Read more

How did meteorites become extraterrestrial objects?

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Comment les météorites sont-elles devenues des objets extraterrestres ?

How did meteorites become extraterrestrial objects?

August 16, 2023

André Grandchamps

For a long time, in the West, people didn't believe that meteorites fell from the sky. It took a daring scientist and a meteorite shower in the town...Read more

Emmy Noether, the mathematician who demonstrated general relativity

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Emmy Noether, la mathématicienne qui a démontré la relativité générale

Emmy Noether, the mathematician who demonstrated general relativity

April 25, 2023

André Grandchamps

Emmy Noether is regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians. Nevertheless, she lived in a time when science and mathematics were considered to be...Read more

The lasers that changed the life of Donna Strickland

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Donna Strickland pendant ses études de doctorat à l’Université Rochester.

The lasers that changed the life of Donna Strickland

April 12, 2023

André Grandchamps

The work of women scientists is often too little known and publicized. They fail to get the proper credit, unlike their male colleagues. The story of...Read more

Lise Meitner, who helped unlock the secrets of the nucleus of atoms

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Lise Meitner, who helped unlock the secrets of the nucleus of atoms

March 14, 2023

André Grandchamps

The physicist Lise Meitner discovered nuclear fission, but her work has not gained the recognition it deserves. Some of her male colleagues reaped...Read more

Vera Cooper Rubin, the woman who discovered the dark side of the Universe

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Vera Cooper Rubin, celle qui a découvert le côté sombre de l’Univers

Vera Cooper Rubin, the woman who discovered the dark side of the Universe

February 14, 2023

André Grandchamps

The astronomer Vera Rubin isn’t a name to the general public. Nevertheless, she made some major discoveries, which became important research topics...Read more

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Adapting the Planétarium experience to the sensory sensitivities of people with autism

Discovering the Universe through the words of Hubert Reeves

The passion of discovery

Total eclipses of the Sun: a pretext for a trip!

From your balcony right up to the stars!

How did meteorites become extraterrestrial objects?

Emmy Noether, the mathematician who demonstrated general relativity

The lasers that changed the life of Donna Strickland

Lise Meitner, who helped unlock the secrets of the nucleus of atoms

Vera Cooper Rubin, the woman who discovered the dark side of the Universe

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