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Two French climate models consistently predict a pronounced global warming

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Thomas Ebbesen, physical chemist, awarded the CNRS Gold Medal for 2019

Notre-Dame de Paris: the CNRS has launched a project to coordinate research

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Physics

A new cutting-edge microscope inaugurated at the CEMES-CNRS

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Environment

West Africa: human-induced air pollution is higher than expected

Archaeology

Northern France was already inhabited more than 650,000 years ago

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The 2019 CNRS Innovation Medallists are Ane Aanesland, Vance Bergeron, Orphée Cugat, and Livio de Luca

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Environment

Peatlands trap CO2, even during droughts

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What noggin of modern humans’ ancestor would have looked like

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Having an elder brother is associated with slower language development

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Human and social sciences

Similar information rates across languages, despite divergent speech rates

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Archaeology

Newfound phalanx fragment shows Denisovans closer to modern humans than Neanderthals

Chemistry

Secret messages hidden in light-sensitive polymers

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