A Nobel Prize is often the crowning moment for a researcher's career while a CNRS bronze medal can serve to launch such a career. But what if it is a humorous award like the Ig-Nobels?
Following the CNRS's first carbon footprint assessment for 2019, the organisation has now published its second carbon audit for 2022. The latest report is more precise than 2019's, measuring the…
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...
International scientific cooperation based on decades of trust and exchanges is now being weakened by the current geopolitical uncertainties and the disengagement of certain partners, with the United…
As COP30 kicks off in Belém (Brazil), information integrity has been included on a COP action agenda for the first time. Climate disinformation has now been identified as a risk for international…
Based on rigorous methodology, and ensuring both quality and objectivity, institutional scientific expertise aims to enlighten public decision making and debates relating to major societal issues.
The CNRS 'Fellow-Ambassadors' programme has welcomed nine new prestigious figures from world research to serve the scientific community and help raise the organisation's profile.
Climate crisis, energy transition… Such global challenges are central to a new form of cooperation established by the CNRS with leading universities in Tokyo, São Paulo, and Chicago, in the form of…
Deep sea's riches is currently attracting all manner of covetousness, shadow fleets are trying to damage underwater infrastructures and the temperatures of our oceans are reaching record heights…