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The Franco-Singaporean symposium on quantum science and technology
From November 5th to 7th of this year, Singapore hosted the Franco-Singaporean Quantum Symposium. The event brought French and Singaporean scientists…
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"The CNRS is a scientific benchmark organisation which teachers and students can turn to".
The Year of Geosciences is the fruit of a partnership between the CNRS and the French Ministry of Education and aims to reinforce the links between…
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Who was Caracalla, the cruel emperor of Gladiator II?
After Commodus in Gladiator, Caracalla plays the new crazy and cruel emperor in Gladiator II. A very dark image of this ancient sovereign, with…
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When science enters the Chauvet Cave
Thirty years after its discovery, an exhibition at the Cité des sciences et de l’industrie in Paris is featuring the “scientific adventure” behind…
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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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