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O A page from the Archimedes Palimpsest, considered lost for several decades, has been identified by a CNRS researcher at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Blois.

Identified as the most complete Australopithecus fossil discovered to date 1 , "Little Foot" was buried in sediments whose movement and weight caused fractures and deformations, making analysis of its skull-and more particularly its face-difficult.

Thanks to Fink, a software founded by two CNRS 1 engineers, it is now possible to track millions of transient celestial phenomena observed in the sky by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, in real time and with unprecedented precision.

While the ability to climb trees has often been studied in arboreal mammals, descending is a far more complex task, as it requires control of balance, speed and posture.

Far from the common assumption of a strictly binary division of labour, the roles of women and men in Neolithic Europe were both clearly differentiated and flexible.

A French research team led by CNRS scientists¹ has discovered that cells are able to retain a memory of a previous perturbation within the 3D structure of their genome, independently of their DNA sequence.

A specific molecular mechanism has been identified as the cause of the most frequent genetic forms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, also known as Charcot's disease) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the United Nations Agreement on the High Seas (BBNJ) and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) have demonstrated strong commitment by governme

LGBTQ+ people face unequal treatment across different human societies. Several concomitant factors can contribute to this discrimination at various levels of society, resulting in diminished living conditions.

Considered as essential metals in numerous fields such as energy, mobility, digital technology, defence, and health, rare earths 1 have garnered special attention within an international supply context that is under pressure.

Dogs exhibited morphological differences from wolves around 11,000 B.C. Even at that time, there was a surprising range of variation among early dogs - long before the 19th century breeding practices that produced modern breeds.

The 4MOST instrument, installed on the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile and developed in large part by CNRS teams at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 and ENS Lyon, has captured its first light.

According to the World Health Organisation, tuberculosis accounts for one in three deaths among people living with HIV.

The NSF-Doe Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has unveiled the very first "mega" images of the cosmos obtained thanks to the extraordinary features and wide-field view of its LSST camera-the largest in the world.

While human fisher-hunter-gatherer populations were present over 14,000 years ago in South America, it was not until the first agrarian civilisations 7,000 years later that traces of the development and dispersal of indigenous dog lineages can be observed on the continent.

The interdisciplinary NODSSUM mission led by the CNRS in collaboration with a team from Ifremer, the ASNR, and multiple national and international partners 1 will take to the seas on 15th June for one month.

A study conducted by CNRS 1 researchers describes a new method of recycling silicone waste (caulk, sealants, gels, adhesives, cosmetics, etc.

According to a predictive model developed by a CNRS researcher 1 and his European colleagues, the microalgae present in peat bogs could offset up to 14% of future CO2 emissions, thanks to their photosynthetic activity 2 .

Conducted by CNRS researchers 1 , an unprecedented study on the combined use of sunscreen and an insect repellent that is among the best selling in France during summer concludes that UV 2 protection decreases after application of the mixture.

The phytoplankton that populate oceans are known to play a key role in marine ecosystems and climate regulation.

An international team of scientists led by the ESRF, the European Synchrotron, Grenoble, France, has found that emperor penguins detoxify mercury with both sulfur and selenium, a new pathway for a marine predator.

In the aftermath of the fire, the French Ministry of Culture and the CNRS implemented a vast scientific effort to support the restoration of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris.

At the head of a major research programme, Anne-Madeleine Goulet has unearthed a buried treasure from Roman archives: one hundred years of prolific creation on the stage from the seventeenth to the eighteenth century, under the auspices of an aristocracy seeking prestige.

Before going to school to learn how to read and write their language, children first manage to understand and then speak it.

Following the CNRS's first carbon footprint assessment for 2019, the organisation has now published its second carbon audit for 2022.

Interview with the linguist Frédéric Landragin, who recently published a short guide on interstellar communication.

Cities,Ölandscapes, monuments, even human figures: the watercolours of the architect and archaeologist Jean-Claude Golvin are an invitation to immerse ourselves in the everyday life of Greek, Roman, and Egyptian Antiquity.