Culture
… workshops, the curtain rises on the campuses This article was originally published in L'Édition n°27. Université … Culture Shadow images are drawn on the canvas of the tent set up on stage. Suddenly, one of its corners opens, and a man slips his head in. " Have you ever heard of island dwarfism? " he asks. It is the start of a crazy story. That …
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Researcher portraits, Research
… genome,” explains Fabrice André. “Since the research unit was created 9 years ago, we have reached a stage of maturity … societal impact”. An ongoing challenge Fabrice André was a young professional skier from Villard-de-Lans, when he … the biggest challenges of that time were”, and from the offset, he set himself the goal to combine his clinical work …
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Research
… in the Mars 2020 and Exomars Mars exploration missions are set to carry out the first analysis of samples collected by … the European (ESA) and Russian (Roscosmos) space agencies, was also due to leave in 2020, but its launch has been … billion years, we now know that the planet’s evolution was similar to that of Earth over its first billion years …
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… the potential of blockchain Research (This article was originally published in L'Édition n°16 ) Today, … tend to largely associate blockchain with the transfer of assets, this technology for storing and sharing information is … limited to authorised users. Once upon a time there was proof of work While a range of parameters vary from one …
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Research
… The neutrino: towards physics and beyond The neutrino: towards physics and beyond Research (This article was … This is the principle used by the Double Chooz experiment, set up in 2006 at the Chooz power plant in the Ardennes … The neutrino: towards physics and beyond Research (This article was …
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… How it works, therapies and other mysteries This article was originally published in L'Édition n°24. Numbering 639 in … system, or alactic system. The first two metabolic pathways consume glucose, while the last uses creatine during … these metabolic disturbances on the organism and on the onset of fatigue," explains the researcher and director of the …
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Science and society
… has been no problem, however. From his living room, he has set up “ conférences confinées ˮ (lectures in lockdown) … with the end of the pandemic, even if there is no longer a wave of contamination and death such as the one we are … in the southern hemisphere. It will be necessary to wait for herd immunity (60% to 70% of the world's population …
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Researcher portraits, Research
… data provider arrives with a problem and an associated data set. We get together 20-30 participants and 3-5 coaches. We … between the teams. We have been building both software and management tools to foster creativity, diversity, … are all very excited about the prospects of inventing new ways to organize work in general. Besides the …
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Research
… to observing the sky. Recent detections of gravitational waves resulting from the coalescence of compact objects … observatories are scanning the heavens when gravitational waves, gamma-ray bursts or neutrinos take place. Once an … this for the past two years. A better observing sequence Set up by the ‘gravitational waves’ group at the Laboratory …
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… Patricia Bouyer-Decitre: making safety-critical software more reliable through mathematics Patricia Bouyer-Decitre: making safety-critical software more reliable through mathematics Researcher portraits … faith in Patricia Bouyer-Decitre and Évelyne Contejean to set up the future laboratory’s scientific project. “Our two …
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… industry in 2012. However, Emmanuelle Deleporte was not destined to work in this field and her career took a … Paris-Saclay, ENS Paris-Saclay, CentraleSupélec, CNRS). She was director of the Physics Department at ENS Cachan from … Deleporte was able to further develop her projects and then set up an interdisciplinary team, including physicists and …
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… companies were forced, albeit completely reluctantly, to set up whistleblowing platforms while hoping that no one would ever use them. This paradox was a first in the history of management and deserved to be … Promoting the ‘soft sciences’ Sandra Charreire Petit has always felt it is important to promote dialogue between …
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