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Press
Matter
Engineering

Chemical thermometers take temperature to the nanometric scale

Scientists from the Coordination Chemistry Laboratory and Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems, both of the CNRS, recently developed…

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Engineering
Matter

Behind the dead-water phenomenon

What makes ships mysteriously slow down or even stop as they travel, even though their engines are working properly? This was first observed in 1893…

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Press
Life
Matter
Engineering

The CNRS 2020 Innovation Medal goes to Sophie Brouard, Daniel Hissel, Arnaud Landragin, and Franck Molina

Sophie Brouard, Daniel Hissel, Arnaud Landragin and Franck Molina are the CNRS 2020 Innovation Medallists. Since 2011, the CNRS Innovation Medal…

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Matter
Health

COVID-19: in uncommon times, dark matter specialists have applied their skills to ventilators

The Mechanical Ventilator Milano (MVM), an open source ventilator to support patients severely ill with COVID-19, has moved from design to reality in…

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Matter

Toward a more energy-efficient spintronics

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Press
Matter
Space

Where did the antimatter go? Neutrinos shed promising new light.

We live in a world of matter – because matter overtook antimatter, though they were both created in equal amounts by the Big Bang when our universe…

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Press
Life
Matter

COVID-19: launch of an international survey on the loss of smell and taste

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Edmond Becquerel, Solar spectra, 1848, photochromatic images, Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône.
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Matter
Matter

Mystery solved! We finally understand the origin of the colours in the first colour photographs

A palette of colours on a silver plate: that is what the world’s first colour photograph looks like. It was taken by French physicist Edmond…

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Neurons in culture (nucleus in blue, cytoplasm in green) with the visualisation of quadruplexes by imumunodetection (in red).© Andrey S. Tsvetkov, McGovern Medical School at Houston, TX, USA
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Matter
Health

Unusual DNA structures involved in neuron ageing

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Society
Matter
Environment

The colours of the Pachacamac idol, an Inca God, finally revealed

Researchers from the CNRS, Sorbonne Université, université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle and the Musée du Quai…

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