The CNRS is a key player in innovation, both in France and worldwide. Finding applications for research results ensures that scientific advances benefit society, which is one of the missions…
Invasive insects cause at least 69 billion euros of damage per annum worldwide. Such is the estimation made by an international research team led by Franck Courchamp, CNRS research director at…
At 6000 years old, this copper amulet is the earliest lost-wax cast object known. Now, researchers have finally discovered how it was made, using a novel UV-visible photoluminescence spectral imaging…
The very first image of a black hole has been obtained by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a network of eight radio telescopes on four different continents designed for this purpose.
Following the CNRS's 'Roadmap for Open Science' published in 2019, the organisation's 'Research Data' plan encourages researchers to make their data accessible and reusable. Alain Schuhl, the CNRS…
An international collaboration bringing together over 200 scientists from 13 countries has shown that the very high-energy gamma-ray emission from quasars, galaxies with a highly energetic nucleus,…
On 28 September, the European Commission launched the collection of signatures for an agreement whose signatories will form a coalition to reform research assessment. The CNRS has already signed the…
The CNRS's stated mission is to put science at the service of society and currently, with Paris currently hosting the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the organisation is establishing itself as a…
With one billion stars mapped in a thousand days, European researchers have shown that they are not afraid to tackle the most daunting tasks. The work was carried out by 450 researchers from 25…
The modalities and date of emergence of bipedalism remain bitterly debated, in particular because of a small number of very old human fossils.
Sahelanthropus…