Electronic components of the future : Launching of the SINANO European...
The launching of the European Network of Excellence, SINANO (Silicon-based Nanodevices), of the 6th PCRDT (1), will take place on February 9-10, 2004, in Grenoble, France. This project, devoted to...
View ArticleMIRI MISSION: FRANCE ON BOARD THE FUTURE JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE
The CNES will participate in the future James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) by contributing its technical and financial support to the CNRS and CEA teams working on the MIRI infrared instrument,...
View ArticleVLT shatters the record for the detection of the most distant galaxy in the...
The most distant galaxy ever observed13,230 billion light-years awayhas been detected by French researchers (Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique of Toulouse-Tarbes, LA2T, CNRS ...
View ArticleAntifreeze in the Hale-Bopp comet
By analyzing archived spectra, an international team (1) led by astronomers from the Laboratoire d'Etudes Spatiales et d'Instrumentation en Astrophysique (LESIA: CNRS, Observatoire de Paris,...
View ArticleThe European computing grid moves into high gear
This week, the European data grid will go into high gear as the groundbreaking DataGrid project comes to a successful conclusion and a new project, the EGEE (Enabling Grids for E-science in Europe)...
View ArticleRadioactivity: an IN2P3/CNRS laboratory receives COFRAC accreditation
The Institut de Recherches Subatomiques (IReS), a research unit managed jointly by the IN2P3 (CNRS) (1) and the Université Louis Pasteur (ULP) of Strasburg, has just been accredited for its...
View ArticleA new accelerator for dating carbon 14
A new accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) device was inaugurated on April 8, 2004 at the CEA (French Atomic Energy Commission) in Saclay by the CNRS, the CEA, the Ministry of Culture and Communication,...
View ArticleThree researchers presented by the CNRS win the European Young Investigator...
The names of the 25 winners of the European Young Investigator Award (EURYI) were announced in Brussels on July 29, 2004. These 25 researchers, chosen among the most qualified candidates in the world,...
View ArticleThe first image of an exoplanet ?
An international team (1) including French astronomers from the Laboratoire d'astrophysique de Grenoble (mixed research unit run by the CNRS and Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers in Grenoble) has...
View ArticleAre silent earthquakes heralds of megathrust earthquakes in subduction zones ?
Recent findings obtained by different teams in two subduction zones, one in Japan, and the other in the Cascadia region (Pacific Northeast) are compared in an article published in the September 24,...
View Article25 candles for the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope
The Canada-France-Hawaii telescope (National Research Council of Canada - French National Center for Scientific Research - University of Hawaii) is celebrating a quarter of a century of observations...
View ArticleRed dwarf has surprising magnetic field
An international team of astrophysicists (1), led by a researcher at the Laboratoire d'astrophysique de Toulouse et Tarbes (Toulouse-Tarbes Astrophysics Laboratory) (CNRS, Université Paul Sabatier,...
View ArticleThe HESS experiment discovers a fully active cosmic accelerator at the center...
Researchers at CNRS (IN2P3 (1) and INSU (2)) and at CEA-Dapnia (3) , working within the framework of an international collaboration, have succeeded in making accurate observations, using the HESS...
View ArticleWhere the methane in Titan's atmosphere comes from
The Cassini probe and the Huygens spacecraft have shown that methane plays an important role on Titan, one of Saturn's moons. From a meteorological point of view, it is the equivalent of water on...
View ArticleFormaldehyde in the neighbourhood of a massive protostar
The formaldehyde molecule (H2CO) has been detected for the first time by infrared absorption in front of a massive protostar, W33A, observed with the UKIRT telescope (United Kingdom Infrared...
View ArticleDiscovery of the missing link in the menagerie of distant galaxies
A new type of galaxy has just been discovered by an international team of researchers (1) led by Denis Burgarella of the Laboratoire d'astrophysique de Marseille (LAM - Marseille Astrophysics...
View ArticleWhy is the earth's mantle like a marble cake?
The Earth's mantle is the thickest shell of rock surrounding the Earth, and lies roughly between 30 and 2,900 km below the surface. Geologists analyze volcanic rocks in order to find out more about it....
View ArticleThe 2007 Japan Prize awarded to the french physicist Albert Fert
The 2007 Japan Prize has been awarded to Albert Fert, Professor at the University of Paris-Sud 11, Scientific Director at the CNRS/Thales Joint Physics Unit (associated with the University of Paris-Sud...
View ArticleMore than 40% of new CNRS patents are already being put to use
Very positive results for the optimization of French public research: from 1 July 2007 to 30 June 2008, CNRS published 284 patents, as owner or co-owner, 41 per cent of which are already commercialized
View ArticleCreation of a Franco-Japanese International Joint Unit and two International...
In Japan, CNRS and its Japanese partners have just signed into existence an International Joint Unit (or UMI), the Japanese Robotics Laboratory (Tokyo University), and two International Associated...
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