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Plastics – an impossible puzzle to solve?
On May 23rd 2025, the CNRS and the INRAE released a collective scientific expert review on the use of plastics in agriculture and food. The report…
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Fukushima insects tested for cognition
In the contaminated area around Fukushima, Japan, scientists are studying the impact of radioactivity on the cognitive abilities of pollinating…
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Reducing plastic in research – laboratories are leading the way
With the environmental and health consequences of plastic use currently being better assessed and studied, a number of research laboratories are…
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Tenure tracks 2025 recruitment campaign opens
The CNRS is recruiting 59 tenure-tracks positions across multiple scientific fields ranging from sustainable metallurgy to artificial intelligence,…
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Turning expertise into action - the strong point of the social sciences
Public action has many links with knowledge provided by the humanities and social sciences. France's scientific council on radicalisation processes…
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International mobilisation for the ocean
CNRS and IFREMER have been tasked with organizing the One Ocean Science Congress (OOSC), a UNOC3 Special Event dedicated to Science, and to provide…
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Momoko Seto, director for the CNRS
Momoko Seto is presenting her first feature film, ‘Planets’, at the Critics' Week of the Cannes Festival 2025. She films living things in a constant…
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Le Journal
A map of energy in the brain
The first mapping of mitochondria in the brain has just been revealed. This is yet another step towards understanding these structures which supply…
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Radioactive waste: a scientific mission sets out to map submerged barrels in the Atlantic
Between 1950 and 1990, over 200,000 barrels of radioactive waste were dumped in the depths of the Northeast Atlantic Ocean.The first mission of the…
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Research infrastructures are responding to the challenges of the environmental transition
Following the CERN's publication of the feasibility study for its Future Circular Collider (FCC) project, associations and scientific communities are…
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