An eminent fossil hunter takes the reins at the National Academy of Sciences in a turbulent moment for American researchers.

Pour cette semaine du 8 juin : Des cellules solaires ultrafines pourraient transformer chaque objet en source d'énergie, les extraterrestres ont peut-être déjà été remplacés par des super-IA, une enquête dénonce les marges cachées qui rendent le bio plus cher, des traces de feu vieilles d'un...

A new paper by Junia Mortimer, Urban Studies Foundation fellow, explores what happens when photographic archives are revisited through different conceptual frameworks, and with different people in the room. The archive in question belongs to Roberto Monte-Mór, professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, architect, economist and urban planner, who worked in and photographed Amazonian frontier settlements throughout the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s while developing his concept of extended urbanization.