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    The winners of 2024 ERC Starting Grants from the CNRS
The European Research Council (ERC) has just announced the winners of its 'Starting' grants which provide substantial funding for projects involving…
       
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    Nuclear power plants: a scintillating sponge for monitoring radioactive gas emissions
A scintillating aerogel enabling real-time measurements with excellent sensitivity to certain radioactive gases, essential to monitoring the proper…
       
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    A nose for smell disorders
By depriving them more or less temporarily of their sense of smell, the Covid-19 pandemic made thousands of people abruptly realise the importance of…
       
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    Planet 9, do you copy?
For nearly ten years, astronomers have been trying to demonstrate the existence of a massive object thought to be orbiting in the outer reaches of…
       
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    Mai-Anh Ngo, sports and equal rights champion
A multi-medallist para-swimmer, France’s national karate kata champion in 2022 and a lawyer specialising in sports and disability law, Mai-Anh Ngo…
       
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    Mai-Anh Ngo, sports and equal rights champion
Two weeks after the Olympic Games, Paris is hosting the 2024 Paralympics. A multi-medallist para-swimmer, France’s national karate kata champion in…
       
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    Mai-Anh Ngo, lawyer and “hyperactive PRM”
A multi-medallist para-swimmer, France’s national karate kata champion in 2022 and a lawyer specialising in sports and disability law, Mai-Anh Ngo…
       
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    Marseille liberated!
Julia Pirotte, a photojournalist and resistance fighter, documented the first day of the Marseille uprising on 21 August, 1944, wielding her camera…
       
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    Ancient Olympic fans also cheered for their heroes
As the 2024 Olympics in Paris have come to a close and the Paralympics are about to begin, the historian Jean-Paul Thuillier looks back at the…
       
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