In June 2025, Hanadi Bekai joined ENS de Lyon thanks to the Palestine Scholarship program to pursue her doctoral research at CIHAM. Her area of scholarship is Arabic Language and Literature; she studies unpublished manuscripts from the 14th to the 18th centuries.

As part of the ENS-IISER partnership, Gayatree MISHRA , a doctoral candidate from IISER Bhopal, joined ENS de Lyon through the BIOSANTEXC program and completed a three-month internship at the IGFL. In the frame of the international strategies and common actions of the Écoles normales supérieures in France, ENS de Lyon has taken the lead in the creation of a partnership with the Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISER) in India.

Openness and diversity feature prominently among the strategic actions of ENS de Lyon's institutional project. A new master plan for professional equality between women and men has been adopted for 2024-2026, with a number of key actions that reinforce the policy of equality and prevention of gender-based and sexual violence for both students and staff.

The FluoroBreaker project, developed by students from the iGEM Lyon 2025 team, won a gold medal at the Grand Jamboree, the final event of this prestigious international synthetic biology competition.

According to a CNRS publication dated November 18, 2025, based on a press release from the ESO (European Southern Observatory). On November 10, four lasers simultaneously pierced the sky at Cerro Paranal in Chile, marking a major milestone in the GRAVITY+ project, to which the Lyon Astrophysics Research Center (CRAL / OSUL - Sponsored by: CNRS / ENS de Lyon / Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1).

According to a CNRS publication dated November 5, 2025. Based on a scientific publication in Nature Communications to which Stéphane Santucci, a CNRS researcher at ENS de Lyon's Physics Laboratory (LPENSL), contributed: Multiscale stress dynamics in sheared liquid foams revealed by tomo-rheoscopy.

According to a CNRS communication dated October 16, 2025. Based on a scientific publication in Current Biology to which the RDP laboratory at ENS de Lyon contributed: "Robust branch patterning in moss shoots via symplasmic auxin diffusion." Image © Des Callaghan In an article published in Current Biology , scientists explore how auxin, a plant hormone, travels through the stem of moss to shape its architecture.

In plants, cells can neither move nor reorganize freely due to their rigid walls. How, then, do they correctly orient their division to build coherent tissues - A study published in Science Advances reveals that, in addition to an already well-documented classical cue, plant cells rely on the actin cytoskeleton to adjust the plane of division according to their environment.

As part of the ENS-IISER partnership, Aswathy LATIKA BABU, a doctoral candidate at the NCCS, joined ENS de Lyon through the BIOSANTEXC program and completed a three-month internship at the IGFL. In the frame of the international strategies and common actions of the Écoles normales supérieures in France, ENS de Lyon has taken the lead in the creation of a partnership with the Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISER) in India.

According to a CNRS communication dated February 19, 2026.

According to a CNRS press release dated November 14, 2025. In January 2024, the CNRS launched a collective scientific study to examine the uses of rare earths from a circular economy perspective. The results of this study were presented on November 14, 2025, at a public symposium.

Deadline for submission - . Date of notification of results: Mid February 2026. Created in 2010, the Joint Research Institute for Science and Society is a without walls research structure designed to foster scientific research collaborations in all disciplines, and with a privileged attention to the societal implications of scientific knowledge, between the East China Normal University of Shanghai and Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon as a member of the Université de Lyon (UDL).

According to a communication from the CNRS dated November 12, 2025. Based on a scientific publication in Nature Ecology & Evolution to which Lucie Étienne, CNRS research director at CIRI, and Alexandre Legrand, INSERM researcher and CIRI doctor, contributed: Evolutionary characterization of antiviral SAMD9/9L across kingdoms supports ancient convergence and lineage-specific adaptations.

Press release, Villeurbanne, October 9, 2025. The past of the planet Mars continues to captivate the scientific community. One question in particular remains unanswered: did oceans once cover the surface of the Red Planet?