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Genetic history: Searching for the African roots of Noir Marron communities
New genetic data bear witness to transatlantic ties severed by slavery and triangular trade. ScientistsOther French research teams that participated…
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Learning a mother tongue: A universal process ?
How do children learn their mother tongue? This question has been the subject of few studies conducted outside of industrialized countries. At the…
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Ensuring the survival of elephants in Laos: a matter of economics
Asian elephant populations in Laos, which are under a process of commodification, have dropped by half in the last 30 years. According to…
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Discovery of a potential therapeutic target to combat trypanosomes
Yaser Hashem's team at the Laboratoire Architecture et Réactivité de l'ARN at CNRS's has discovered a new potential therapeutic target – located in…
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Water striders illustrate evolutionary processes
How do new species arise and diversify in nature? Natural selection offers an explanation, but the genetic and environmental conditions behind this…
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World first for reading digitally encoded synthetic molecules
For the first time ever, using mass spectrometry, researchers have successfully read several bytesA byte is a segment of information consisting of…
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Gravitational waves shed first light on mergers of neutron stars
This is a major breakthrough in more than one respect. The scientists of the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration (which includes the CNRS) have for the first…
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Augmented tongue ultrasound for speech therapy
A team of researchers in the GIPSA-Lab (CNRS/Université Grenoble Alpes/Grenoble INP) and at INRIA Grenoble Rhône-Alpes has developed a system that…
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Gutters teem with inconspicuous life
Scientists from the BOREA Biology of Aquatic Organisms and Ecosystems research unit (CNRS / MNHN / IRD / UPMC / University of Caen / Université des…
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When anemones bleach, clownfish suffer
The bleaching of corals is a well-known consequence of climate change. What is less widely known is that sea anemones suffer the same fate, and this…
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