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Nuclear power plants: a scintillating sponge for monitoring radioactive gas emissions
A scintillating aerogel enabling real-time measurements with excellent sensitivity to certain radioactive gases, essential to monitoring the proper…
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Le Journal
Innovation hat trick
Cyril Aymonier, Lydéric Bocquet and Eleni Diamanti are the three recipients of the CNRS 2024 Innovation Medal, which rewards male and female…
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Is CO2 capture the key to carbon neutrality?
The European Commission is adamant: carbon capture and storage (CCS) will play a key role in the fight against climate change. But just how does CCS…
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Alexander Kuhn, the chemist who breaks the rules
The winner of the 2023 CNRS Silver Medal, Alexander Kuhn has marked the scientific community with his research in electrochemistry, which is of…
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Light in all its forms
Light is an invaluable resource, both for looking back into the past and for securing our future, and is celebrated on the International Day of Light…
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Pharmacognosy brings nature to our medicine chests
Professor Mehdi Beniddir, both a researcher in chemistry and a pharmacist, explains how pharmacognosy makes it possible to develop new medicinal…
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Claire de March, a researcher with flair
Winner of the 2023 Irène Joliot-Curie Prize in the “Young Woman Scientist” category, this research chemist has developed the very first experimental…
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Le Journal
Recycling using supercritical fluids
Whether trainers or batteries, some multilayered objects still resist recycling… not for very long. This report takes you to the ICMCB laboratory…
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Le Journal
Are white holes dawning at last?
As opposed to black holes, white holes are thought to eject matter and light while never absorbing any. Detecting these as yet hypothetical objects…
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The origins of the Standard Model
Fifty years ago, a French team was behind a discovery that helped develop the Standard Model of Particle Physics.
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