Frigate birds were already known for their ability to fly continuously for weeks without landing. A telemetric study of their trajectory and flight strategy has just revealed that they can remain…
• Charcot-Marie Tooth disease causes progressive paralysis of the legs and hands. No treatment is available today.
• After more than a decade of research, a…
The CNRS Gold Medal, which was created in 1954, recognises scientific careers that have made exceptional contributions to the dynamism and influence of French…
The fall of an asteroid in the Yucatán Peninsula (Mexico) 66 million years ago is believed to have caused the extinction of dinosaurs. It also created the Chicxulub impact crater, the only such…
How can technology improve our housing conditions? How will we interact with “intelligent” housing? What information is it possible and desirable to share? What future legislative framework for these…
Two years after the first battery prototype using sodium ionsFor more information, see http://www2.cnrs.fr/en/2659.htm in a standard industrial format was designed, the start-up Tiamat has been…
We live in a world of matter – because matter overtook antimatter, though they were both created in equal amounts by the Big Bang when our universe began. As featured on the cover of Nature on 16…
The chemist Cyril Aymonier, the physicist Lydéric Bocquet, and the quantum physics specialist Eleni Diamanti are the winners of the 2024 CNRS Innovation Medal. Since its creation in 2011, this award…
Michelin, the CNRS and l’Université Clermont Auvergne have combined their expertise as part of the new BioDLab joint research laboratory.
The laboratory will…
A 50-year-old debate has at last been settled: the highest-energy cosmic rays do not originate in our own Galaxy but in galaxies located tens or even hundreds of millions of light years away. The…
