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The recently assembled LSST 1 camera is now ready to make the trip from the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in the United States to the Vera C. Rubin Observatory 2 in Chile, where it will be installed in May 2024.

Winner of the 2023 Irène Joliot-Curie Prize in the "Young Woman Scientist" category, this research chemist has developed the very first experimental structure of a human olfactory receptor.

The Milky Way seen above the summit of the Mauna Kea volcano on the island of Hawaii (US), home to several astronomical observatories, including the two W. M.

The École Polytechnique engineering school, the French national scientific research center CNRS and Safran Electronics & Defense have signed a partnership agreement for a joint laboratory dedicated to the research and development of electric satellite thrusters.

For the third year running, the CNRS is rewarding men and women who share scientific information and knowledge beyond the laboratory walls.

The CNRS is joining forces with Michigan State University in the United States to create a new international laboratory.

To enable a transition towards a circular economy, a number of ecological, economic and technological challenges related to recycling must be addressed.

Transferring the best inventions that grew out of public research toward the market is one of the CNRS's missions.

  Since 1817, half of the Parthenon Marbles from Athens have been housed in the British Museum. Despite frequent requests from the Greek authorities, the UK refuses to return them to their country of origin.

  BathyBot is the first deep-sea robot permanently installed in Europe, more than 2400 meters deep. It has just begun its mission in the Mediterranean Sea and has unveiled the first images of its environment.

From 2 June to 17 July 2023, an oceanographic cruise dubbed APERO, jointly led by CNRS researchers, will be conducted in the north-east Atlantic.

This research offers prospects for counteracting age-related conditions, cancer, and neurodegenerative diseases.

The Ice Memory Foundation calls for a rapid action by the international community to save the memory of the world's glaciers.

For the last 40 years, the financial losses caused by biological invasions have been equivalent to those caused by storms or floods.

The Ice Memory Foundation launches its 8th drilling operation participating in the Sentinel project expedition on the Holtedahlfonna icefield - Svalbard An international team of scientists has reache

The CNRS, a key actor in French deeptech with a driving role in innovation, has just made official its participation in Vivatech 2023 for a fourth edition.

The continent of North America is where horses first emerged. Millions of years of evolutionary changes transformed the horse before it became the natural companion of many Indigenous Peoples and the flagship symbol of the southwest.

According to a study led by CNRS researcher Alexandra Alvergne 1 , the Covid-19 vaccine does not cause advserse menstrual changes.

Under certain conditions, the cores of stars contract. When this happens, they start to spin faster than the external layers of the star.

NOEMA, Europe's new major radio astronomy facility, is to be inaugurated on 30 September 2022. Capable of carrying out unprecedented observations, it is already a member of the international EHT collaboration, which produced the very first images of black holes.

In August 2022, two research aircraft equipped as airborne laboratories will fly over the Arctic Ocean on the lookout for polar cyclones.

Are sea animals involved in the reproductive cycle of algae, like pollinating insects on dry land? Dispersal of the male gametes, or spermatia, of red algae generally relies on water movement, and up until now, scientists did not recognize the role played by animals.

Language models are AI systems whose primary applications concern natural (i.e., human) language.

The new framework agreement includes the launch of new research projects and theses and may also lead to the creation of joint laboratories.

The existence of a circuit of neurons innervating our skin that promotes interaction with other individuals has just been demonstrated by a team of researchers from the Institute of Functional Genomi

France's rising electricity needs, its energy independence and the decarbonisation of its energy mix are all challenges to which nuclear energy can provide a solution.

"In keeping with the CNRS's strategic technology transfer mission, the Innovation Medal rewards researchers who have successfully completed technology transfer," explains Jean-Luc Moullet, CNRS Deputy CEO for Innovation.

This year the CNRS has decided to feature at Vivatech those technologies that meet the challenges of the future in the fields of health, sustainability, and digital technology, especially through the 12 companies presented at its stand, all of which grew out of basic research results.

The discovery of new materials is vital to meeting societal challenges relating to energy, transportation, the energy transition, the digital transition, and health.

The quantity of data stored worldwide is estimated to increase to 175 zettabytes 2 by 2025. If we were to store this data on Blu-ray discs, it would require 23 stacks from the Earth and the Moon.

Diversifying the species in forest plantations has a positive impact on the quality of woodlands. This is the result of an international study, involving a CNRS researcher 1 , published on May 20, 2022, in the journal Science .

Parts that resist longer, processes that are both more economical and environmentally friendly, these are some of the key issues in metallurgy across all sectors of its application, especially with r