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Polymers that mimic chameleon skin
Biological tissues have complex mechanical properties – soft-yet-strong, tough-yet-flexible – that are difficult to reproduce using synthetic…
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BIABooster: a more sensitive device for characterizing DNA in blood circulation
Developed and patentedPatents PCT/EP2015/067826 and WO/2014/020271. in 2012 and 2014 in the Laboratoire d'Analyse et d'Architecture des Systèmes …
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How to make a good impression when saying hello
You can hear the perfect hello. And now you can see it too. Researchers from the CNRS, the ENS, and Aix-Marseille UniversityThe scientists hail from…
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Artificial bio-inspired membranes for water filtration
Access to clean drinking water is considered to be one of the main challenges of the 21st Century, and scientists have just opened a path to new…
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How allergens trigger asthma attacks
A team of Inserm and CNRS researchers from the Institute of Pharmacology and Structural Biology—or IPBS (CNRS / Université Toulouse III—Paul Sabatier…
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Why is it so hot at night in some cities?
During the nighttime, it is hotter in the city than in nearby suburbs or the countryside. But just how much hotter differs between cities…
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A new solution for chronic pain
Neuropathic pain is a chronic illness affecting 7-10% the population in France and for which there is no effective treatment. Researchers at the…
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In the eye of the medulloblastoma
Can genes normally expressed only in the eye be activated in brain tumours? Such a phenomenon, though surprising, has been observed in certain types…
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Ancient Nubia (present-day Sudan): In the footsteps of the Napata and Meroe kingdoms
The archaeological site of Sedeinga is located in Sudan, a hundred kilometers to the north of the third cataract of the Nile, on the river's western…
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Comet Chury formed by a catastrophic collision
Comets made up of two lobes, such as Chury, visited by the Rosetta spacecraft, are produced when the debris resulting from a destructive collision…
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