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12
Juin
2023
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Political propaganda on record

Political speeches, militant or folk songs… discover a few priceless gems from the over 900 propaganda records produced in France in the twentieth century by political organisations of all stripes. The brand new PSXX platform brings together this for…

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12
Juin
2023
Posted in CNRS

Antennas to observe the Universe

Located at an altitude of 2,500 metres on the Bure plateau in the Alps, the Noema international observatory is the most powerful radio telescope in the northern hemisphere. Thanks to the data collected by its twelve antennae pointed in the same directi…

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25
Mai
2023
Posted in CNRS

The holy Hittite city of Zippalanda finally identified

Historians who decipher cuneiform texts frequently discover names of ancient cities that they are unable to locate on a map. In addition, the original designations of many sites excavated by archaeologists in the Near and Middle East have yet to be det…

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25
Mai
2023
Posted in CNRS

The truth behind the placebo effect

Even without deception, a placebo can still be effective – provided certain precautions are taken before it is administered. A study by CNRS experts at the TIMC interdisciplinary health laboratory offers an explanation.

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25
Mai
2023
Posted in CNRS

Reconciling people and wildlife in the Okavango

In Botswana’s Okavango Delta, thousands of local villagers suffer the consequences of coexisting with protected wildlife species: livestock attacked by lions, crops destroyed by elephants… The researchers of the ProSuLi project are trying to find solut…

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25
Mai
2023
Posted in CNRS

Neuroscience to the rescue against sexual violence

Although a global scourge, sexual violence is by no means inevitable. It can be curbed, in particular thanks to recent discoveries on the brain and its phenomenal plasticity. The neurobiologists Danièle Tritsch and Jean Mariani, authors of Sexe et Viol…

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25
Mai
2023
Posted in CNRS

Presenting the world’s oldest architectural plans

Engraved on stones and dated to 8,000 and 9,000 years ago, the oldest known plans to scale have recently been published in the journal PLOS ONE. They depict gigantic prehistoric structures known as “desert kites” that were designed to trap wild animals…

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22
Mai
2023
Posted in CNRS

Towards environmentally-friendly cryptoassets?

Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies have been criticised for the huge amounts of electricity required to make them secure. Researchers are exploring new pathways towards more virtuous blockchains.

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17
Mai
2023
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Fighting antibiotic resistance

The proliferation of resistance to treatments against infections is a threat to human health. To face up to this situation, scientists are tracking the appearance and spread of the genetic determinants that help pathogens fight antibiotics, and are con…

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17
Mai
2023
Posted in CNRS

Fighting antibiotic resistance

The proliferation of resistance to treatments against infections is a threat to human health. To face up to this situation, scientists are tracking the appearance and spread of the genetic determinants that help pathogens fight antibiotics, and are con…

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28
Avr
2023
Posted in CNRS

The IPCC issues uncompromising conclusions on climate change

Rounding off eight years of work, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently published its sixth Synthesis Report. The CNRS research professor Gerhard Krinner, who coordinated part of it, tells CNRS News about this document, which was appro…

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27
Avr
2023
Posted in CNRS

Understanding and reproducing ritual objects via ethnomimetics

Discover how scientists and indigenous populations work closely together to replicate traditional ritual objects so as to preserve them, while respecting ancestral know-how.

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27
Avr
2023
Posted in CNRS

Smart grids are essential to the ecological transition

Sensors and artificial intelligence are now part of electrical grids, creating more “intelligent” networks known as smart grids. The researcher Nouredine Hadjsaid explains the issues and challenges raised by these new systems designed to optimise the b…

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24
Avr
2023
Posted in CNRS

Cosmology in turmoil

Two separate measurements of the Hubble constant, a parameter that describes the expansion rate of the Universe, have yielded conflicting results. The discrepancy could lead to the overthrow of the standard model of cosmology.

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24
Avr
2023
Posted in CNRS

Friendly bacteria

For several years now, microorganisms have been gravitating from the lab benches of biologists towards the test tubes of chemists. The aim is to study bacteria from a new angle with the prospect of developing novel therapeutic solutions.

Lexar BGold
20
Avr
2023
Posted in Communiqué de presse Numérique Sciences et Technologies

Les cartes CFexpress Type B Gold series Lexar® approuvées par RED compatibles avec les caméras V-RAPTOR et V-RAPTOR XL

Lexar, l’une des principales marques mondiales de solutions de mémoire flash et stockage, est fière d’annoncer que RED Digital Camera…

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18
Avr
2023
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Can international law save the oceans?

Now that negotiations for an international treaty aimed at strengthening protection of the oceans have successfully concluded in New York, Pascale Ricard, a specialist in international environmental and maritime law, tells CNRS News about the regulatio…

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18
Avr
2023
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Can international law save the oceans?

Now that negotiations for an international treaty aimed at strengthening protection of the oceans have successfully concluded in New York, Pascale Ricard, a specialist in international environmental and maritime law, tells CNRS News about the regulatio…

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18
Avr
2023
Posted in CNRS

Saving the ice record in Svalbard’s glaciers

The Ice Memory Foundation, which collects ice samples from around the world, is launching a new expedition to the Svalbard Archipelago in Norway. The aim is to collect two ice cores containing the climate and environmental record of the past 300 years.

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11
Avr
2023
Posted in CNRS

Spyware in mobile games

Games on mobile phones collect all kinds of personal information without our knowledge. The computer science researcher Pierre Laperdrix and his team have studied this surveillance ecosystem and its impact on users.

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06
Avr
2023
Posted in CNRS

Biodiversity beneath the tarmac

Major urban areas leave very little room for biodiversity, often relegating it to a decorative role. The entire concept of the city urgently needs to be revised, to make it more hospitable to flora and fauna – and thus to Homo sapiens.

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27
Mar
2023
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Is the concept of GDP compatible with the ecological transition?

It has been the very foundation of post-war economic policies, but is the idea of GDP compatible with the goals of the ecological transition? According to some economists, this purely monetary indicator does not factor in certain “irreversibilities” – …

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24
Mar
2023
Posted in CNRS

Do women enjoy better muscle recovery?

An increasing number of women are outperforming men in very long ultra-trail races. Do they enjoy better endurance and muscle recovery? Should they be offered different training to reach their full potential? To find out, Caroline Nicol and her colleag…

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23
Mar
2023
Posted in CNRS

Claude Lorius, a Life on the Ice

A pioneer of glaciology, Claude Lorius, winner of the CNRS gold medal in 2002, died on 21 March. This exceptional researcher discovered that the record of Earth’s past climate is locked up in the ice of Antarctica and highlighted the role of greenhouse…

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22
Mar
2023
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Fani Maoré, the submarine volcano that shook Mayotte

In 2018, the island of Mayotte, a French territory in the Indian Ocean, was rocked by one of the largest underwater volcanic eruptions ever recorded. The scientific activity triggered by the event led to a series of discoveries that have shed fresh lig…

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22
Mar
2023
Posted in CNRS

The turbulent world of Bérengère Dubrulle

The physicist Bérengère Dubrulle has won the Irène Joliot-Curie Female Scientist of the Year prize 2022, awarded by the French Academy of Sciences. Yet another distinction for this specialist in turbulence, who has in particular developed a new model o…

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22
Mar
2023
Posted in CNRS

To the rescue of Arizona’s waterways

In the US State of Arizona, it is not unusual to see rivers that have dried up. Some only flow in specific sections or at certain times of the year. They are known as intermittent rivers. At the CNRS iGlobes laboratory, located within the University o…

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19
Mar
2023
Posted in CNRS

Long-standing consensus on the human origin of global warming

On the occasion of the forthcoming publication of the Synthesis Report of the Sixth IPCC Assessment Report, the science historian Hélène Guillemot explains how knowledge on climate change has improved since the 19th century, eventually demonstrating th…

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16
Mar
2023
Posted in CNRS

Focusing on targeted treatments against cancer

The result of advances in chemistry, innovative molecules offer glimpses of more effective and less restrictive cancer treatments that have fewer adverse effects. CNRS research units and the start-ups they gave rise to are in the front line of a war be…

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13
Mar
2023
Posted in CNRS

Investigating climate sceptics’ disinformation strategy on Twitter

As part of the Climatoscope project, David Chavalarias and his colleagues are studying the structure, tactics and arguments of climate change sceptics on Twitter. The goal of these highly-organised networks, which have become particularly active in rec…

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28
Fév
2023
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Forests faced with climate change

Ahead of the One Forest Summit scheduled on 1-2 March 2023 in Libreville, Gabon, the ecologist Jonathan Lenoir presents the issues involved in preserving forest ecosystems in the context of global warming.

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27
Fév
2023
Posted in CNRS

Heading for Jupiter

JUICE, the first European-led space mission to Jupiter, is scheduled to launch in April. The aim of this major undertaking is to explore the gas giant and its icy moons.

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23
Fév
2023
Posted in CNRS

How do baby algae come into being ?

The biological station at Roscoff in Brittany (northwestern France), which was founded 150 years ago, on 20th August 1872, still serves as a reference for the study of marine life. This is evidenced by a major discovery that made the headlines of the j…

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21
Fév
2023
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Fusion in stars reproduced in the lab

Using a novel experimental protocol, scientists are shedding fresh light on nuclear fusion reactions in stars. This will affect theories of stellar evolution and of the abundance of elements in the Universe, explains physicist Sandrine Courtin.

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21
Fév
2023
Posted in CNRS

Urban planet

Now a worldwide phenomenon, urbanisation keeps gaining ground, transforming our landscapes as well as our lifestyles and social organisation. By 2050 the world’s urban population will have increased 30-fold compared with 1900, and cities will represent…

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17
Fév
2023
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The true colours of the Lady and the Unicorn

The Lady and the Unicorn is the mysterious and must-see masterpiece at the Cluny Museum, in Paris. Little is known about these six impressive tapestries, apart from the fact that significant colour differences can be observed in the weaving. With cutti…