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Knitted fabric, an everyday metamaterial

Light, soft, resistant, deformable, and sometimes tacky, knitted fabric is not just an everyday object, it is also a metamaterial whose extraordinary…

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Mosquitoes and their costly sting

While very useful in ecosystems, mosquitoes tend to ruin the lives of humans. A CNRS team has even recently calculated how much these dipterans cost…

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Epigenetics in the genes

At a ceremony held in Paris recenlty, the biologist Edith Heard was handed the CNRS Gold Medal, one of the most prestigious French scientific…

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The never-ending climate emergency

COP 29 opens on 11 November in Baku, Azerbaijan, against the backdrop of accelerating global warming and its effects.

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Plongeur parmi les racines de palétuviers de la lagune de Xel-Ha au Mexique

The mangrove, a forest that grows in salt water

This atypical maritime forest plays an essential role and provides unsuspected services to populations and the environment.

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Largest-ever digital camera to scan the Universe

It took hundreds of scientists worldwide, including several CNRS teams, to produce the world’s largest digital camera, in order to scan the univers.

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