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Albert Fert: The art of physics
… As a student at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS), he was more attracted, he freely admits, by the capital's jazz … of Ian Campbell. “Previously, I thought that science was a set of laws firmly established by eminent researchers … electricity production and contribute significantly to global warming.” Research carried out in the 2000s has …
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Gigantic magnetic fields at the origin of hypernovae
… objects. The first confirmed sighting of a supernova was in the year 185, although there are records of similar … approximation. This involves filtering out sound waves which are not very useful for studying the subsonic … A., Guilet, J., Raynaud, R., & Bugli, M. (2021). A global model of the magnetorotational instability in …
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Stéphanie Baumberger: Developing products from agricultural activity
… industry sector at ENSIA, Stéphanie Baumberger decided, towards the end of the 1990s, to focus on a PhD investigating … to the ‘Les étoiles de l’Europe’ (Stars of Europe) award In 2013, Stéphanie Baumberger also decided to take on … exchange programme, students are prepared for the global challenges of the bioeconomy and benefit from a …
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Thierry Naas: The fight against antibiotic resistance
… decided to continue his career in university research. "I was drawn to the intellectual freedom offered by the … in 1978 for the discovery of restriction enzymes. "It was an incredible opportunity. I learned a lot about … of carbapenem resistance at the regional, French or even global level. Thanks to a collaboration with the Institute …
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Bertrand Thirion: mapping the human brain using artificial intelligence
… the Frédéric Joliot Hospital in Orsay, demonstrated that it was possible to partially reconstruct the individual’s … research team dedicated to brain modelling: Parietal was officially established in 2009, and Bertrand Thirion led … brought new technological solutions, Scikit-learn remains a global benchmark that continues to be developed through a …
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Emmanuel Hirsch: a commitment to medical ethics
… of life, neurodegenerative diseases, suffering, states of wakefulness without consciousness and health crises. "So … developing countries with Michel Kazatchkine; this charter was the result of consultations in several African countries … approach that serves the common good." Openness to global health and solidarity Since 2023, Emmanuel Hirsch has …
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The Chicago piles: on the trail of the first nuclear reactor
… the first nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1. With World War II raging in the background, a race began to develop the atomic bomb before Hitler's Germany and end the global conflict. This was the Manhattan Project. Eighty years later, Andrea Zoia, … the first nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1. With World War II raging in the background, a race began to develop the …
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M2 Studying the Climates of the Earth
… in-situ and satellite experimental methods and regional to global models. Multidisciplinary. Understanding the climate … explains the flow of the Earth's fluid envelopes (air, water), energy exchanges, radiation-matter interactions, and the wave aspects of natural phenomena; Earth sciences, which …
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Generative AI: The algorithms revolutionising content creation
… algorithms revolutionising content creation This article was originally published in L'Édition n°25. Since the launch … artificial intelligence (AI) has made a spectacular headway, and among its most promising branches is generative AI. … Pajak, researcher at Network, Innovation, Territories, Globalization laboratory (RITM - Univ. Paris-Saclay) and …
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