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Navelbine® and Taxotere®: Histories of Sciences
© ISTE Editions.
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Health

Navelbine® and Taxotere®: Histories of Sciences

Weaving history with chemistry, Navelbine® and Taxotere®: Histories of Sciences (ISTE Editions, June 2017) tells the story of two anticancer drugs…

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A new material for purifying natural gas
© Guillaume Maurin
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Matter

A new material for purifying natural gas

The fields of gas filtration and purification require materials whose porosity can be perfectly controlled. Zeolites, which are porous inorganic…

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When liquids turn to solids : the mystery of corn starch elucidated
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Matter

When liquids turn to solids: the mystery of corn starch elucidated

Some particle suspensions, such as grains of starch in water that are liquid at rest, suddenly solidify when they are subjected to vigorous shearing…

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Electronic synapses that can learn : towards an artificial brain ?
© Sören Boyn / CNRS/Thales physics joint research unit.
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Electronic synapses that can learn: towards an artificial brain?

Researchers from the CNRS, Thales, and the Universities of Bordeaux, Paris-Sud, and Evry have created an artificial synapse capable of learning…

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Light-controlled gearbox for nanomachines
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Light-controlled gearbox for nanomachines

Rewarded with a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2016, nanomachines provide mechanical work on the smallest of scales. Yet at such small dimensions,…

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The world's first international race for molecule-cars, the Nanocar Race is on
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Matter

The world's first international race for molecule-cars, the Nanocar Race is on

Nanocars will compete for the first time ever during an international molecule-car race on April 28-29, 2017 in Toulouse (south-western France). The…

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Crystallography : Electron diffraction locates hydrogen atoms
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Crystallography: Electron diffraction locates hydrogen atoms

Diffraction-based analytical methods are widely used in laboratories, but they struggle to study samples that are smaller than a micrometer in size…

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Fast fine art : 19th century painting tricks revealed
© Hélène Pasco, LAMS (CNRS, UPMC)
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Fast fine art: 19th century painting tricks revealed

To paint quickly while creating exceptional texture and volume effects, J. M. W. Turner and other English artists of his generation relied on the…

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Materials : when defects turn into qualities
© François-Xavier Coudert, CNRS.
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Engineering

Materials: when defects turn into qualities

Hybrid organic-inorganic materials, which were developed approximately twenty years ago – notably by Gérard Férey, laureate of the CNRS 2010 Gold…

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Light-induced vesicle explosions to mimic cellular reactions
© Peyret et al. 2016.
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Light-induced vesicle explosions to mimic cellular reactions

Cells are the site of a multitude of chemical reactions, the precision of which is envied by scientists. A team of researchers from the CNRS and…

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