Science
Lithium rush in Bolivia …
« Gray gold » may be the key to a future filled with electric vehicles. That’s because lithium is the most important ingredient in the batteries that power these cars. Among all lithium reserves on the planet, no deposit is richer than the vast salt flats of Salar de Uyuni, a unique natural wonder.But what will be the environmental price for it ?
Photos and text by ‘Eitan Haddok/LightMediation
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Reprieved Heritage
Pakistan shelters one of the richest rock art galleries in the world. An unrecognized heritage living its lats moments.
Photos by Marie Dorigny/LightMediation Text by Marie-Amélie Carpio
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Mankind’s future is on the sea
Mankind’s future is on the sea
Global warming, the ice melt, water rising, pollution, the extinction of species…it is often said that the sea is sick. Water territories represent however the future of our planet. A handful of visionaries, architects and scientists are working on forward-looking projects which will enable us to know more, to live, to cultivate seas and oceans better.
BY DAVID MARQUETTE/LIGHTMEDIATION
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Ecotron : the future of nature in a test tube
CNRS created a new scientific instrument, the Ecotron, to study the reaction of nature to unusual climatic conditions…to the environmental changes scheduled by the IPCC in 2050…
Photos and text by Hubert Raguet/LightMediation
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Space tourism : these projects are crazy but true !
The idea is not new. It is the dream of many of us: to someday travel into space. A dream soon achieved through several space tourism projects which seem more crazy than each other and yet close to being realized.
A story by David Marquette/LightMediation
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Scientists in China struggle to save the last 1000 pandas
The Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, in southwestern China’s Sichuan province, is the heart of the country’s campaign to save its national emblem from extinction. It has been the pioneer in using artificial insemination to reproduce the notoriously frigid and infertile animal.
Photos and text by Justin Jin/LightMediation
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The Lost Leonardo
An Italian art expert says he is on the verge of discovering a long-lost Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece hidden in a secret cavity behind a palace wall. « The Battle of Anghiari » is one of the most enduring mysteries of the art world. This story is a cross between a Dan Brown novel and an Indiana Jones adventure.
Photos and text by Eric Vandeville/LightMediation
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« Lightgraff »: when Photography and Writing merge…
Here, the definition of the word photography is taken literaly: to draw or to write (graphos) with light (photos).By the time, writing arts have never stopped evolving. Lightgraff is part of this process. After having used stones,reeds, inks, paints and sprays… we use light.Lightgraff is a new langage, that of light.
©Guillaume J. Plisson/Brusk/LightMediation *These photos are taken at night,without any computer retouching *
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Roman treasures of the Rhone river
For 2000 years, archeological objects of an inestimable value have been sleeping in the river bed of the Rhone River underneath the quay of the historic city of Arles, which is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. A team of archeologists and divers has been digging patiently in these dark waters since twenty years in order to return their discoveries to the light of day.They are being presented to the public for the first time in the exhibition « César, le Rhône pour mémoire », the happy ending to an adventure story of a determined scientific quest in a battle against the ever-charging currents of a capricious river.
Photos by Remi Benali-Patrick Landmann/LightMediation Text by Alexie Valois
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Snail caviar, a new wonder of taste
Gastronomy, like haute couture, is a matter of taste. And, when ideas and innovation are combined with delight and flavour the good fortune make an appearance. Sylvie and Dominique Pierru gather week after week, with unparalleled care and unequaled softness the small white pearls that kindly gastropods were willing to lay.
Photos by Patrick Landmann/LightMediation
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