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What makes the Earth’s surface move?
Do tectonic plates move because of motion in the Earth’s mantle, or is the mantle driven by the movement of the plates? Or could it be that this…
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TONGA Project: Studying the impact of submarine volcanoes on biological activity at the ocean surface
An international team of 29 researchers will plough Pacific waters between Nouméa and the Tonga volcanic arc from 1 November to 5 December 2019…
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Ants: Jam-free traffic champions
Whether they occur on holiday routes or the daily commute, traffic jams affect cars as well as pedestrians. Scientists at the Research Center on…
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A new discovery! How our memories stabilise while we sleep
Scientists at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology (CNRS/Collège de France/INSERM)An associate member of the Université PSL, since…
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 goes to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz
Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz from Switzerland have been awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery in 1995 of the first exoplanet…
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Portable electronics: a stretchable and flexible biofuel cell that runs on sweat
A unique new flexible and stretchable device, worn against the skin and capable of producing electrical energy by transforming the compounds present…
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UChicago to collaborate with leading French research center
The University of Chicago and the French National Centre for Scientific Research are launching a new collaboration to grow opportunities for research…
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A new cutting-edge microscope inaugurated at the CEMES-CNRS
The Centre d'élaboration de matériaux et d'études structurales (CEMES) of the CNRS recently developed an innovative method to study the properties of…
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