The chemical gardens.
Since the dawn of time, explaining the origin of life from nothingness has generated much passion and polemic.Over a century ago, Stéphane Leduc,a French professor of medicine,attempted to duplicate this phenomenon. His work led to the invention of synthetic biology which created a great stir among the scientific community at the time.However, was he really misguided? What can be said is that the work carried out by this ingenious experimenter opened the way for as much scholarly research as violent debate.At the outer edges of science, on the borders of metaphysics, two chemists and a photographer have copied this scientist’s work. They have reinterpreted the illegible scribbles of the mad scholar in the light of the fabulous phenomenon of osmosis. An insight into their secret laboratory over a three-day period.
Photos ©Stephane Querbes Text ®Etienne Colomb/K-Minos Original idea ©R.E Eastes -C. Darrigan
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A laboratory for the H-bomb
In 1996, France signed the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) after having completed in 1995 a final and resounding nuclear test campaign in the Pacific. Now, France has to find other ways to guarantee the performance of its thermonuclear weapons. To maintain a convincing strike force, without resorting to other nuclear tests, France created an ambitious Simulation programme whose aim is to put in an equation the physical phenomena involved in the ignition of a thermonuclear weapon.
Photos et text ©Hubert Raguet/Lightmediation
Parution Chine – FOCUS – Les promesses de la mer d’Alexis Duclos
Le reportage sur les molécules issues des recherches sur la faune et flore marine parait dans l’édition chinoise de FOCUS:
