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Un pompier éteint un incendie
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Wildfires – science to the rescue

By 2100, wildfires will become a major risk in a France. In this context, the CNRS is providing insights into the risks at the interfaces between urban areas and natural spaces, through its…
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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 was commissioned by two ministries and a government…
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The helium crisis – the CNRS is breathing more new life into science

For some years now, research laboratories have been suffering from the effects of worldwide inflation on the price of helium, an essential gas in many scientific disciplines. In response, the CNRS is…
UIllustration d'une main qui tient en coupe de l'eau sur laquelle flotte les îles d'outre-mer
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France's overseas territories - guardians of the ocean

From coral reefs to public policy - France's overseas territories are at the forefront in ocean research. They serve as natural laboratories and innovation hubs to help build a science that focuses…
Drone launch on the Changri-Nup glacier in Nepal
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The CNRS's leading role in Drones for Research

The CNRS has officially been a registered operator of drones for the last eight years. This title is the result of a decade of work by the CNRS Drones Unit on structuring and professionalising pilots…
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Covid-19: how the pandemic disrupted our way of life

At a conference held last November 18th and 19th, researchers from the ' Du monde d’avant au monde d’après ' research programme presented the findings of their multidimensional survey of…
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Lionel Buchaillot

Director of the Institute for Engineering and Systems Sciences (INSIS)
Lionel Buchaillot is a CNRS Research Professor and a specialist in the physics of micro- and nano-systems and thin film materials. He conducts his research at the Institute of Electro...
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The CNRS overseas: scientific research with and for overseas territories

By virtue of their geostrategic position scattered across four oceans, French overseas territories are home to diverse cultures, ecosystems, and rare species on a global scale. On the front lines of…
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Sandra Lavorel

Ecologist
Sandra Lavorel was born in Lyon in 1965, and joined the CNRS in 1994. She has been a member of the French Académie des Sciences since 2013. A specialist in the functioning and dynamic...
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Transversal challenges

The CNRS has identified six major transversal challenges to which it aims to make substantial contributions over the medium term: the brain, materials of the future, life in the Universe,…