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COP29: the never-ending climate emergency
COP 29 opens on 11 November in Baku, Azerbaijan, against the backdrop of accelerating global warming and its effects. On the agenda, a key issue:…
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Working towards sustainable research is also a scientific challenge
The Labos 1point5 research network recently organised its 3rd general conference on the Jussieu campus which provided the opportunity to take…
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Friends, the robot that adapts in the blink of an eye
At the cutting edge of robotics, the teams at the Joint Robotics Laboratory (JRL) in Japan recently worked on Friends, a humanoid personal assistance…
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The winners of 2024 ERC Synergy Grants from the CNRS
The results of the 'ERC Synergy Grant' call for 2024 have just been published: 10 of the winning projects involve CNRS researchers or researchers…
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How speech comes to children
Before going to school to learn how to read and write their language, children first manage to understand and then speak it. How are they able to do…
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"We often talk about 'interdisciplinarity' in the singular but in fact it should be 'interdisciplinarities' in the plural"
The start of the 2024 academic year was marked by two major conferences on interdisciplinarity. Martina Knoop, the director of the CNRS's Mission for…
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The CNRS makes its second carbon footprint assessment
Following the CNRS's first carbon footprint assessment for 2019, the organisation has now published its second carbon audit for 2022. The latest…
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Le Journal
Infrasound, sound waves that nothing can stop
What do a wind turbine, an ocean swell, and a volcanic eruption have in common? All three emit infrasound, or sound whose frequency is below 20 hertz…
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The origin of most meteorites finally revealed
Understanding where shooting stars and meteorites come from is a question that scientists have been trying to answer since ancient times.Until…
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How to speak to extraterrestrials?
Interview with the linguist Frédéric Landragin, who recently published a short guide on interstellar communication.
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