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What makes the Earth’s surface move?
Do tectonic plates move because of motion in the Earth’s mantle, or is the mantle driven by the movement of the plates? Or could it be that this…
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CNES and CNRS renew their exceptional partnership
CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall and Antoine Petit, Chairman & CEO of CNRS, the French national scientific research centre, have renewed the…
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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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Geomagnetic jerks finally reproduced and explained
The Earth’s magnetic field experiences unpredictable, rapid, and intense anomalies that are known as geomagnetic jerks. The mechanisms behind this…
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Unprecedented biological changes in the global ocean
Current monitoring of marine biological systems only covers a tiny fraction of the ocean, which limits our ability to confidently predict the…
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CNRS launches observation campaign of seismic activity in Mayotte
Since May 10, 2018, multiple earthquakes have been reported off the island of Mayotte (Indian Ocean), some of which were widely felt by the…
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