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Island biodiversity disproportionately exposed to global change
By 2050, most island ecosystems will be threatened by global change: 65% primarily by climate change, 22% by land-use change and 13% by biological…
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Olivier Grasset appointed Director of CNRS Earth & Space
Thierry Dauxois, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the CNRS, has appointed Olivier Grasset as Director of CNRS Earth & Space, effective 1…
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PFAS: Neurological effects identified in birds and mice
An international team of scientists led by two CNRS researchers¹ has, for the first time, identified the neurological effects of a PFAS compound in…
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Hong Wang, Permanent Professor at IHES, awarded the 2026 Fields Medal
Hong Wang, a 35-year-old Chinese mathematician specializing in harmonic analysis, has been awarded the Fields Medal at the International Congress of…
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Hunting down the cyber mafia
Ransomware is a type of malicious software (malware) that develops within an ecosystem combining criminality, cyber espionage, and disinformation…
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Wikipedia and science: a happy love story (at last)
Twenty-five years on from its launch, the world’s most widely read online encyclopaedia has made the reliability of its content, which is underpinned…
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“Proust’s madeleine” finally explained by neuroscience
A team of CNRS scientists1 has just pinpointed the brain mechanisms and scientific explanation behind the famous ‘Proust’s madeleine’…
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The acceleration of High-Risk Research: imagining tomorrow’s scientific breakthrough discoveries
Which breakthrough innovations could soon emerge from basic research? Almost two years after the launch of the CNRS’s ‘High-Risk Research’ programme,…
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A supernumerary discoverer
Marthe Gautier was the scientist behind the discovery of the supernumerary chromosome of trisomy 21, a genetic anomaly that affects some 50,000…
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