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The secret of sand patches
Sand patches dot beaches and deserts, but their origin remains an enigma. Using measurements taken in the desert, physicists have created a model…
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Light in all its forms
Light is an invaluable resource, both for looking back into the past and for securing our future, and is celebrated on the International Day of Light…
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Space experiments aboard the ISS
The metabolism of astronauts, the behaviour of plants, the reactions of living beings to radiation and of foams to weightlessness… The International…
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Water in all its forms
To mark #WorldWaterDay2025 on 22 March, we present an overview in images of the countless, sometimes unexpected issues surrounding the most vital and…
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Super-neutrino!
The most energetic neutrino ever detected has just been ‘captured’ by the KM3NeT/ARCA experiment. CNRS physicists are in the starting blocks.
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On the trail of cosmic cataclysms
Based in Namibia, the H.E.S.S. telescope array monitors the showers of particles produced when the highest-energy cosmic rays ever observed in the…
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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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When the Mediterranean was empty
Over 5 million years ago, the Mediterranean Sea dried up, giving way to a salt flat stretching as far as the eye could see. A look back at the…
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Astrochemistry, inside cosmic kitchens
Astrochemistry, a relatively new field, focuses on exploring chemistry in interstellar spaces to uncover insights about the origins of life on Earth…
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