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Notre Dame: restoring eternity
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…
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“Magnificence” on stage: Rome 1644-1740
At the head of a major research programme, Anne-Madeleine Goulet has unearthed a buried treasure from Roman archives: one hundred years of prolific…
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Who was Caracalla, the cruel emperor of Gladiator II?
After Commodus in Gladiator, Caracalla plays the new crazy and cruel emperor in Gladiator II. A very dark image of this ancient sovereign, with…
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When science enters the Chauvet Cave
Thirty years after its discovery, an exhibition at the Cité des sciences et de l’industrie in Paris is featuring the “scientific adventure” behind…
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How speech comes to children
Before going to school to learn how to read and write their language, children first manage to understand and then speak it. How are they able to do…
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Infrasound, sound waves that nothing can stop
What do a wind turbine, an ocean swell, and a volcanic eruption have in common? All three emit infrasound, or sound whose frequency is below 20 hertz…
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How to speak to extraterrestrials?
Interview with the linguist Frédéric Landragin, who recently published a short guide on interstellar communication.
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Breathing life back into Antiquity
Cities, landscapes, monuments, even human figures: the watercolours of the architect and archaeologist Jean-Claude Golvin are an invitation to…
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Cultural property on the path to restitution
With the release of the documentary film Dahomey, which follows France’s restitution of twenty-six works of art to Benin, various research teams…
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Biologist Edith Heard awarded the 2024 CNRS Gold Medal
Created in 1954, the CNRS Gold Medal is awarded to scientists who have made an outstanding contribution to the dynamism and influence of French…
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