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Mariëtte Le Roux

A mother and her child are reflected as they pass a mural by artist FAKE, titled "Super Nurse", paying tribute to all healthcare and medical professionals in times of the coronavirus, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Sunday, April 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
April 20, 2020, 2:52 am
Europe, New York see progress in virus battle, even as US toll passes 40,000
Hard hit Italy, Spain, France and Britain, along with New York, see drops in daily death tolls and slowing infection rates; pressure mounts to ease restrictions
By Catherine TRIOMPHE and Mariëtte Le Roux
Volunteer workers in a clothing factory manufacturing firefighting gear, make hospital gowns for medical staff to protect them from the coronavirus, in Arnedo, northern Spain, March 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
March 30, 2020, 11:38 pm
Global lockdown tightens as virus deaths mount in Europe
Italy’s death toll grows but rate of new infections hits new low; Zimbabwe, parts of Nigeria shut down in attempt to slow spread of coronavirus
By Mariëtte Le Roux, Daniel Silva and Maria Antonova
An artist's reconstruction of the newly discovered dinosaur Mansourasaurus shahinae on a coastline in what is now the Western Desert of Egypt. (Andrew McAfee/Carnegie Museum of Natural History)
January 30, 2018, 2:00 am
Scientists discover huge Egyptian dinosaur with ties to Europe
Skeleton of elephant-sized plant-eater Mansourasaurus is the most complete from the late Cretaceous period ever found in Africa
By Mariëtte Le Roux
Inspectors from the Nature and Parks
December 20, 2017, 5:50 am
Fish sex so loud it could deafen dolphins
Species of Mexican fish found to amass in rambunctious reproductive orgies creating sound levels comparable to a crowd cheering at a stadium
By Mariëtte Le Roux
A worker in the Unimore CMR laboratory making artificial skin. (Screen capture: YouTube)
November 10, 2017, 7:47 pm
Revolutionary gene therapy saves Syrian refugee boy’s skin, life
Two years after seven-year-old received genetically modified epidermis transplant over almost his entire body, his life is back to normal
By Mariëtte Le Roux
Illustrative: A cosplayer dressed as a dinosaur attends the MCM Comic Con at ExCeL exhibition centre in London on October 28, 2017. (AFP/Tolga AKMEN)
November 6, 2017, 8:51 pm
Israeli study: Mammals gave up night life only after dinosaurs’ demise
Tel Aviv University researchers posit many mammals maintain nocturnal features due to previous need to compete with dinosaurs
By Mariëtte Le Roux
Protesters wave Catalan pro-independence Estelada flags during a demonstration in Barcelona on October 21, 2017. (AFP Photo/Lluis Gene)
October 28, 2017, 4:48 am
Spain on a knife’s edge as Madrid seizes control of rebel Catalonia
Secessionist lawmakers vote 70 to 10 in the 135-member parliament to declare region ‘a republic in the form of an independent and sovereign state’
By Mariëtte Le Roux and Marie Giffard
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy gives a press conference after a cabinet meeting at La Moncloa Palace in Madrid, on October 27, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / JAVIER SORIANO)
October 27, 2017, 10:28 pm
Madrid dissolves Catalan parliament after independence declaration
Spanish PM Rajoy calls snap regional elections as crisis escalates; EU and US stand behind Spain and reject claims of want-away region
By Mariëtte Le Roux
Undated artist rendering shows two views of a composite reconstruction of the earliest known Homo sapiens fossils from Jebel Irhoud (Morocco) based on micro computed tomographic scans of multiple original fossils (Philipp Gunz/Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology via AP)
June 8, 2017, 2:05 am
Homo sapiens 100,000 years older than thought
Groundbreaking fossil discovery in Morocco sheds light on origin of our species, may re-organize the human evolutionary tree
By Laurence COUSTAL and Mariëtte Le Roux
Winston Churchill in Downing Street giving his famous 'V' sign, 1943. (photo credit: Imperial War Museums/public domain)
February 16, 2017, 7:41 pm
Churchill held we are not alone in the universe
In unpublished book, war-time British PM posited alien life on exoplanets in the Goldilocks’ zone
By Mariëtte Le Roux
Illustrative: A supernova explosion. (YouTube screenshot)
February 13, 2017, 10:07 pm
Israeli astronomers catch first hours of supernova
Weizmann Institute scientist helps reconstruct explosion of star, whose light took 160 million years to reach earth
By Mariëtte Le Roux
A 1:3 scale model of the landing unit Schiaparelli of the European-Russian ExoMars 2016 mission is seen at the ESA space operation center (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany, on October 19, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS KIENZLE)
October 19, 2016, 8:23 pm
Europe, Russia team up to search for life on Mars
Mission control optimistic after spacecraft’s seven-month journey and final descent through Martian atmosphere
By Mariëtte Le Roux and Sascha Halfmann
An illustrative photo of a Filipina worker helping an elderly woman on November 2, 2010. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
October 7, 2016, 4:40 am
How long can people live? New study suggests 115 years
Research puts limit on human lifespan; says short of technological or medical breakthroughs, it will be hard to extend
By Mariëtte Le Roux
Illustrative photo of a dinosaur skeleton. ('Light the dinosaur'/Ruben/CC BY 2.0)
July 7, 2016, 3:25 am
Climate change, asteroid impact killed off dinosaurs
Study argues that immense volcanic eruptions led to greenhouse warming, weakening ecosystems until they could not survive strike
By Mariëtte Le Roux
A reconstruction of a Neanderthal man at the Neanderthal Museum in Mettmann, Germany. (Neanderthal Museum)
May 27, 2016, 7:06 am
Neanderthals explored deep caves, built stalagmite circles
Early hominids made underground structures by firelight, possibly for rituals, 176,500 years ago, according to finds in southwest France
By Pascale MOLLARD and Mariëtte Le Roux
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