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The Tara Oceans mission reveals variations in plankton biodiversity and activity from the equator to the poles

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World’s oldest glue used from prehistoric times till the days of the Gauls

SDHI pesticides are toxic for human cells

Physics

First detection of very high energy gamma-ray bursts

Biology

Plants borrowed genes from bacteria in order to conquer land

Environment

What future do emperor penguins face?

Engineering

Why is ice so slippery?

The answer lies in a film of water that is generated by friction, one that is far thinner than expected and much more viscous than usual water through its resemblance to the “snow cones” of…
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Earth

What makes the Earth’s surface move?

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TONGA Project: Studying the impact of submarine volcanoes on biological activity at the ocean surface

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Biology

Ants: Jam-free traffic champions

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Biology

A new discovery! How our memories stabilise while we sleep

Scientists at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Biology (CNRS/Collège de France/INSERM)An associate member of the Université PSL, since 2009 the Collège de France has had a…
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Collective behaviour 480 million years ago

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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 goes to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz

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Tue. 23.07.2019

Flowers Are not Window-Dressing

They have been on Earth for 174 million years. Geneticist François Parcy explains how flowers teach us about the past, but also provide keys for our…
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Thomas Ebbesen: Shedding Light on Light

On July 3, the CNRS Gold Medal was awarded to Thomas Ebbesen. We look back at the exceptional career of this specialist of light.

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