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Saturn’s moon Mimas, a snowplough in the planet’s rings
The Solar System’s second largest planet both in mass and size, Saturn is best known for its rings. These are divided by a wide band, the Cassini…
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A family of comets reopens the debate about the origin of Earth’s water
Where did the Earth’s water come from? Although comets, with their icy nuclei, seem like ideal candidates, analyses have so far shown that their…
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DOAB Foundation: toward a quality label for academic books in open access
Academic publishing has undergone a revolution in recent years with the development of open access, which enables anyone to freely access academic…
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Notre-Dame de Paris: the CNRS has launched a project to coordinate research
A month after the fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, the Chairman and CEO of the CNRS, Antoine Petit, has just entrusted a researcher with the…
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10 rivers will be studied by the Tara Ocean Foundation to understand the origins on land of plastic pollution in the oceans
Where does plastic waste originate? How does it arrive in the Ocean? Where should we concentrate our efforts to stop the flow of this waste? What…
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The Arctic Ocean, cradle of viral biodiversity
New results, mainly from data from the Tara Oceans expedition (2009-2013), provide the most comprehensive catalog to date of viruses found in all the…
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