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Faced with stress largely stemming from their studies, many Chinese teenagers are excessively using cough medicines. A cause for concern among authorities, this trend, aimed at escaping reality, can nevertheless lead to overdose. Why misuse these medicati

Nine thousand three hundred. That is the number of balloons released by the Imperial Japanese Army toward the United States between November 1944 and April 1945, in the hope of sowing fire and panic across American soil. They carried no engines to propel

A titanic construction project, a water storage facility meant to irrigate Tarn's farmlands, and yet not a single drop ever stored behind its concrete walls. This paradox captures, in essence, one of the most emblematic dossiers in the management of major

French researchers based on a cohort of adolescents have determined that young children who were mistreated show differences in certain brain regions involved in emotions and memory. Moreover, these differences, referred to as "brain scars," would persist

Recently, the prefect of Seine-et-Marne approved the construction of a giant data center-the largest in Europe-in a small municipality. Opponents have gathered around a coalition to protest the project, and a petition has been launched. What should be kno

Each winter, tons of sodium chloride cover the road surfaces to prevent ice from forming and to allow motorists to travel safely. But once the snow melts, the salt does not evaporate: it runs off into ditches, seeps into groundwater, and eventually reache

At an altitude of 2,324 meters, on a lonely plateau in the Turkestan range of Uzbekistan, a paved road leads nowhere. It winds toward a concrete plinth and a circular metal structure, relics of a project meant to house the largest parabolic antenna ever b

No, scoliosis cannot be detected simply by watching your child undress in the evening. That is precisely what makes this spinal deformity so sly: it grows in silence, quite literally at the pace of bone growth. As the back-to-school season begins for thou

Ordos, in Inner Mongolia, has housed since the mid-2000s a district named Kangbashi, conceived to house one million people. Two decades on, the official population tops out at roughly 120,000 to 130,000 residents according to the latest censuses, barely m

An account in euros, meant to finance hours of English classes, training in accounting, or a pastry-making CAP, but that ends up feeding parallel circuits with no link to learning. This is the reality hidden behind the Personal Training Account, this tool