Everyone has asked themselves questions about current events or general knowledge. AMU's researchers, teachers and doctoral students are playing the game and providing their best answers, in layman's terms, for everyone! Find them regularly on the different communication channels of the university.
Your new Small Scientific Question: what is the uncanny in cinema?
The answer with Denis Alcaniz, former PhD student at the Laboratoire d’Études en Sciences des Arts of Aix-Marseille Université.
The last Scientific Trivia Questions
- What is the deaf musical experience? Discover the answer of Sylvain Brétéché, teacher at Aix-Marseille Université and researcher in musicology at the PRISM laboratory (CNRS/AMU/Ministère de la Culture)
- Who uses recreational genetic testing? Discover the answer of Johanna Despax, PhD student at the Laboratory of Clinical Psychology, Psychopathology and Psychoanalysis of Aix-Marseille University.
- What can be found in an open archive? Discover the answer of Isabelle Gras, library curator at the Service Commun de la Documentation of Aix-Marseille University.
- Was transhumance practiced in the Alps in the Middle Ages? Discover the answer of Roxanne Cesarini, doctoral student at the Laboratoire d'Archéologie Médiévale et Moderne en Méditerranée (CNRS, AMU, MMSH) and the Centre Camille Jullian.
- Why is Pluto not a planet? Discover the answer of Steven Rendon-Restrepo, PhD student at the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (CNRS-INSU, AMU) in the Planetary Systems group.
- Can Bitcoin replace the Euro? Discover the answer of Pierre Schweitzer, associate professor at the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Media Law and Social Change (LID2MS, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Aix-Marseille University).
- Restoring the Calanques with plants and microbes? Discover the answer of Lorène Tosini, doctoral student in ecology at the Population Environment and Development Laboratory (LPED, UMR 151, AMU-IRD) and the Mediterranean Institute of Biodiversity and Marine and Continental Ecology (IMBE, UMR 7263, AMU-CNRS-IRD-Avignon University).
- Will artificial intelligence replace judges and lawyers? Discover the answer of Frédéric Rouvière, professor of law at the Faculty of Law and Political Science, and director of the Law Theory Laboratory (Aix-Marseille University).
- Why is the sky blue? Discover the answer of Marin Fouchier, doctoral student in physics at the Fresnel Institute (Aix-Marseille University/CNRS/Centrale Marseille).
- What is the use of literature in times of pandemic? Discover the answer of Alexis Nuselovici, professor of general and comparative literature at Aix-Marseille University, and member of the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Literature of Aix-Marseille (CIELAM).
- What is the situation in Greenland? Discover the answer of Norbert Rouland, professor of legal anthropology at the Faculty of Law of Aix-Marseille University.
- Does a fruit juice = a fruit? Discover the answer of Patrick Borel, research director at INRAE within the C2VN (Inserm-AMU-INRAE).
Who decides what we learn at school? Can we live without GPS? Why does the new year start on January 1st?... Discover all the previous Scientific Trivia Questions in the dedicated playlist on the Aix-Marseille University Youtube channel.
You are a doctoral student, researcher or teacher-researcher and you want to talk about your research in a popularized way to the general public? Does the video format appeal to you?
Contact Fanny Trifilieff, DIRCOM communication officer
fanny.trifilieff[at]univ-amu.fr