… 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 … on avenues of research which were not fashionable at the time, and I still use some of the results today.” Appointed …
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… Sociology, she spent six months at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. There, she studied the reform of … Labour Office, and her Master’s thesis focused on this. “It was towards the end of the 1990s,” she remembers. “Just a … how people organise themselves in their workspace and time frames. The second concerns relations between …
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… theories in various areas of mathematics. He has also been awarded the prestigious 2021 Shaw Prize in Mathematical … key role in Mathematics in France and across the world. It was an extraordinary place for me to learn.” The researcher … very quickly.” The mathematician worked doggedly (sometimes even “painfully”) to create a bridge between two or …
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… their development, their perception of the world and their awareness from an early age. If the way in which adults learn remains an enigma, it is even more … also supports a functional asymmetry, which for a long time was thought to be specific to adults and a consequence …
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… is a tribute to this great scientist. Matthieu Roy-Barman was a professor at Université de Versailles – … and Planets Graduate School at Université Paris-Saclay . He was a specialist in geochemical tracers in the ocean and … Although Matthieu Roy-Barman devoted most of his research time to marine geochemistry, he also collaborated with his …
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… The origins of life: investigating exoplanets The origins of life: investigating … before any living being had drawn its first breath. “We want to understand the extent to which atmospheric chemistry … Humans are not likely to set foot on exoplanets any time soon, the closest of which is 40,000 billion kilometres …
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… celebrates its tenth anniversary Research ( This article was originally published in L'Édition N.19). In 2012, … particle, a few characteristics of which he knew at the time were very similar to the boson theorised by Peter Higgs in 1964. The British researcher, who was in Switzerland when the discovery of the boson which now …
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… . At Université Paris-Saclay, healthcare is ahead of its time, with research topics as varied as pollinator … with dangers (often resulting from human activity): air and water pollution, repeated global pandemics, exposure to carcinogens and long summer heat waves are all causes of mortality. The fact that our …
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… a student in the physics department. "The School's message was both demanding and caring: love science!" he recalls. … teaching qualification (agrégation) in physics in 1987, he was assigned to the French Alternative Energies and Atomic … the emission from a single molecule. "For the first time, I became interested in the coloured centres of …
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… Research Nothing initially suggested that Fanny Jaulin was destined to head a cutting-edge oncology research … by a desire to explain, interpret and share knowledge. It was during an early internship at the Pasteur Institute that … – to test the efficacy of a range of treatments in real time. “The idea is no longer simply to understand why a drug …
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… of improving the treatment of its disorders. Béchir Jarraya was born into a Tunisian family; his father was a doctor with a passion for science. He came top in the … free rein to assemble his neuromodulation team. At the same time, he was appointed university professor and hospital …
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… to cope with climate change in cities This article was originally published in L'Édition n°27. Cities are … beginning to emerge that allow scientists to work on longer timescales, with better spatial resolution. " We've … Urban Climate , 2024, 58. L. Sangelantoni et al . Investigating the representation of heatwaves from an ensemble of …
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