From technology to medicine, transport to fashion, French inventors are responsible for many of the things that shape the modern world (even if they didn't invent the croissant).
French officials are urging their country's research institutions to consider welcoming scientists abandoning the United States due to President Donald Trump's funding cuts, AFP learned last Sunday.
A red ball of spicy fire with luminous patches glowing menacingly against a black background. This, prominent French scientist Etienne Klein declared, was the latest astonishing picture taken by the James Webb Space Telescope of Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our Sun.
Giant tropical worms from Asia have been conducting a stealthy takeover of French gardens, putting local wildlife at risk, a new scientific study has revealed.
Adolf Hitler definitely died in 1945 in Berlin, from taking cyanide and a bullet, according to French researchers who were given rare access to fragments of the dictator's teeth held in Moscow.
French researchers may have made a huge breakthrough in tackling male infertility by becoming the first in the world to create human sperm outside of the body.
A fluorescent lamb that had been genetically modified with jellyfish protein to give it transparent skin ended up mistakenly being eaten in France, even though it was only meant to be used in research, reports said on Tuesday.
French doctors revealed this week they hacarried out the bigest gene testing study of its kind which could offer women with advanced breast cancer a better chance of treating their disease.
The head of France's polar science institute voiced fury on Friday at the misadventures of a Russian ship trapped in Antarctic ice, deriding what he called a tourists' trip that had diverted resources from real science.
A team of scientists based in the French city of Grenoble were honoured with a unique award at Harvard university this week for their psychological study, which found that people are convinced they are more sexually attractive when drunk.
A community of French earthworms has been unearthed trying to eat their way through the soil on an Irish farm, some 1,000 kilometres north of their natural habitat.
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<p>French scientists said on Monday they have found evidence proving the stereotype that people who sport tattoos and piercings are heavier drinkers.</p>
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<p>An eye tracking study by a French laboratory, conducted in seven countries, presented an image of an attractive woman to both men and women to discover where their eyes went.</p>
