News round-up
1247 results
Multimedia
Halloween, time to choose
Trick or treat? The Haloween spirit is here, with witches and demons, and its more or less frightening bestiary. Never fear !
Discover
Update
International Research Centres tackle planetary issues
Climate crisis, energy transition… Such global challenges are central to a new form of cooperation established by the CNRS with leading universities…
Read more
Le Journal
Does AI care about us?
In the French-Belgian film "The Residence", recently released in a number of European countries and Brazil, a novelist interacts with an artificial…
Discover
Le Journal
Plastic recycling is counter-productive
In August 2025, the Geneva Summit on plastic pollution once again failed to reach agreement on an international treaty, due in particular to a lack…
Discover
Update
The CNRS defends gender equality in world science
On October 27th 2025, the eleven organisations, including the CNRS, that won the European Equality Prize signed a declaration of principle in support…
Read more
Le Journal
North American fires contaminate Europe
The huge fires that burn down millions of hectares of forest in North America every year have an impact on the other side of the Atlantic. Plumes of…
Discover
Update
For geoengineering expertise founded on responsible research
At the end of September 2025, the 'Climate, Biodiversity, Sustainable Societies' programme agency steered by the CNRS published a working paper on…
Read more
Press
The state-of-the-art 4MOST cosmograph sees its first light
4MOST, the four-metre Multi-Object Spectrograph Telescope, has begun mapping the sky at record speed, analysing light emitted by 2,400 cosmic objects…
Read more
Update
"The CNRS seeks scientific excellence throughout Canada"
A year after the CNRS's first international research centre was inaugurated in Canada, the new director of the CNRS office in Ottawa, Andréa Dessen,…
Read more