The European Research Council (ERC) has just announced the winners of its 'Starting' grants which provide substantial funding for projects involving young researchers. The CNRS is the host…
Gravitational wave detectors have observed a new type of cataclysmic event in the cosmos: the merger of a neutron star with a black hole.
The phenomenon was detected…
The credibility and legitimacy of public research is grounded above all in evaluation. Evaluation of research carried out by the CNRS, its laboratories and its researchers, using relevant criteria,…
The gravitational waveGravitational waves are ripples in space-time, predicted by Albert Einstein in his theory of general relativity in 1915 and detected for the first time a century later. …
Tiling the plane with a single pattern is a mathematical problem that has interested humans since Antiquity, notably for the aesthetic quality of tiles in mosaics or tiling. One of the unresolved…
On November 20th, the international Committee set up by the High Council for Evaluation of Research and Higher Education (Hcéres) published its report on a part of the CNRS's activities, lauding it…
CNRS and EHESS researchers analyzed nearly 60 million political tweets posted during the 2017 presidential election in France. They noted that fake news flagged by the Le Monde Decodex fact-checking…
In line with the CNRS's open science policy, scientific articles must be available in open access. The CNRS encourages its researchers to turn to publication models being free for both authors and…
Like certain animal and plant species, some of the world's languages are in danger of extinction. Fortunately, the Pangloss Collection, an open archive started in 1995 by the Langues et civilisations…
