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Raymond, Aline, Anne-Sophie, and Romain are four of the many Europeans involved in the building and launch of Ariane 6, Europe’s brand new rocket. And they also hold a crucial responsibility: each of them is authorized to press the red button to halt the launch. Why would they do so, and when? The stakes are incredibly high, as this launch signifies Europe regaining its independent access to space. How do they cope with this pressure?
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Europe's space sector is popping some long-awaited champagne: it has a new baby that is ready to take its first steps.
The new Ariane 6 rocket will close a dark chapter in European space history when the region had no workhorse launcher and no independent access to space. 
What's Ariane 6 like? What's new about it? What space adventures await? Marta and David travel to the European space station in French Guiana to tell us all about it.


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Quantum is the smallest possible amount of something in the universe, but it could spark the most significant revolution in medicine of the century. How? By accelerating the discovery of new drugs through quantum computing. 
Jean-Philippe Piquemal is one of the key figures driving this progress. As the director of the Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory at Sorbonne University and the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), he sheds light on how quantum pharmacy will offer hope for challenging illnesses.
This episode is part of our mini-series on Health Tech Pioneers.

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Ida Tin, the Founder of the menstrual tracker app Clue, and the woman who coined the term for tech tailored towards women’s health and well-being: Femtech. Can you imagine this term didn’t exist before 2016?
This episode is part of our mini-series on Health Tech Pioneers.


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Dr. Nadine Hachach-Haram, a London-based plastic surgeon, once noticed that despite the increasing digitalisation, operating rooms lagged in leveraging their potential to democratise access to quality healthcare. This realisation led her to become what she calls an "accidental entrepreneur" and found her company, Proximie, to introduce technology in traditional operating rooms. 
With Nadine's story, we kick off our mini-series on Health Tech Pioneers.

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Think about what you did yesterday with your phone. Did you look for an address? Did you order food? Did you read a newspaper? Did you listen to a podcast? Did you open an app or take a photo? It's all registered. Today, it's almost impossible to live without leaving a digital footprint.
How can we be sure this very long trail of data protects us and does not violate our privacy?
In this special episode, we traveled to Vienna, the capital of Austria, to find answers at the Fundamental Rights Forum 2024.

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