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How plants conquered the land – and changed the face of the Earth
Half a billion years ago, plants, until then exclusively aquatic, set out to colonise the land. This transition transformed the Earth and its…
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A new showcase for the world's music
On 14 May, 2025, the Musée de la Musique in Paris unveiled a completely new presentation of the 9,000 items in its collections, highlighting the…
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Plastics – an impossible puzzle to solve?
On May 23rd 2025, the CNRS and the INRAE released a collective scientific expert review on the use of plastics in agriculture and food. The report…
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Fukushima insects tested for cognition
In the contaminated area around Fukushima, Japan, scientists are studying the impact of radioactivity on the cognitive abilities of pollinating…
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Reducing plastic in research – laboratories are leading the way
With the environmental and health consequences of plastic use currently being better assessed and studied, a number of research laboratories are…
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Tenure tracks 2025 recruitment campaign opens
The CNRS is recruiting 59 tenure-tracks positions across multiple scientific fields ranging from sustainable metallurgy to artificial intelligence,…
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Turning expertise into action - the strong point of the social sciences
Public action has many links with knowledge provided by the humanities and social sciences. France's scientific council on radicalisation processes…
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International mobilisation for the ocean
CNRS and IFREMER have been tasked with organizing the One Ocean Science Congress (OOSC), a UNOC3 Special Event dedicated to Science, and to provide…
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A map of energy in the brain
The first mapping of mitochondria in the brain has just been revealed. This is yet another step towards understanding these structures which supply…
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Radioactive waste: a scientific mission sets out to map submerged barrels in the Atlantic
Between 1950 and 1990, over 200,000 barrels of radioactive waste were dumped in the depths of the Northeast Atlantic Ocean.The first mission of the…
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