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Discovery of extracts from a lost astronomical catalogue
Hipparchus' Star Catalogue is the earliest known attempt to accurately determine the position of fixed stars.
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How can flying insects and drones tell up from down?
A team of European researchers has established a new principle that explains how flying insects determine…
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How can digital data stored as DNA be manipulated?
Data can be encoded as DNA but are difficult to process thereafter.
A new method enables operations to be…
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Neanderthals appear to have been carnivores
For the first time, zinc isotope ratios in tooth enamel have been analysed with the aim of identifying the diet of a…
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Meet the winners of the 2022 CNRS Scientific Mediation Medal
The CNRS Scientific Mediation Medal recognizes the women and men who put science at the heart of society, diffusing scientific information that is…
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The 2022 Nobel prize in physics has been awarded to Alain Aspect for his research on quantum physics
Alain Aspect, a research professor emeritus at the CNRS, professor at the Institut d’Optique Graduate School/Université Paris-Saclay, ENS Paris…
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The CNRS and the University of Tokyo launch a new international research centre
The CNRS and the University of Tokyo joined forces on 4 October as part of an International Research Centre…
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The European radio telescope NOEMA reaches full power
NOEMA, Europe's new major radio astronomy facility, is to be inaugurated on 30 September 2022.
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