The new SPIRAL2 particle accelerator at the French large heavy-ion accelerator GANIL (CNRS/CEA), inaugurated on November 3 in the presence of the French President François Hollande, will be able to…
The Labos 1point5 research network recently organised its 3rd general conference on the Jussieu campus which provided the opportunity to take stock of work aimed at understanding, assessing and…
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…
With space currently establishing itself as a critical infrastructure, France's new space strategy for 2025-2040 restates a fundamental choice, namely to make research a pillar of space sovereignty…
A year after the CNRS's first international research centre was inaugurated in Canada, the new director of the CNRS office in Ottawa, Andréa Dessen, reviews the prospects for developing scientific…
Bringing all the scientific disciplines involved in AI together in dialogue is is the stated ambition of the 'AI for Science, Science for AI' Centre (AISSAI). This centre is a response to one of the…
The CNRS office in Nairobi opened on October 1st 2024 as did a new chapter for the CNRS in East Africa. This represents essential step forward in strengthening scientific collaboration on the…
During REM sleep, the brain inhibits the motor system, which makes the sleeper completely immobile. CNRS researchers working in the Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon (CNRS/Université…
