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… past and the future to understand how CO 2 has evolved over time and to estimate how long the CO2 added by humans will … on complex systems modelling. Although the scientist was initially interested in the carbon cycle in terrestrial … this modelling has focused mainly on exchanges of energy, water and carbon between atmosphere, oceans and continental …
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… undergoing change Among the areas most exposed to global warming, the polar regions are particularly important given … Paris- Saclay, several research projects are currently underway in these regions to better understand the changes … the most sensitive to climate change, warming up to four times faster than the global average, according to recent …
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… As a student at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS), he was more attracted, he freely admits, by the capital's jazz … on avenues of research which were not fashionable at the time, and I still use some of the results today.” Appointed … the reading technology of hard drives by considerably increasing their information storage capacity and also …
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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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… before any living being had drawn its first breath. “We want to understand the extent to which atmospheric chemistry … model for the Earth as it is also too far from the Sun for water to be liquid. “Advances in observation techniques now … 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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… abuse) and ecology evolve in public opinion due to the way in which they have been relayed and interpreted by the … "Despite the pleasure of teaching, I longed for more and was eager to immerse myself once again in the intense … how the media shaped the social representations of the time. "No one had yet taken an interest in the perceptions …
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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. … the emission from a single molecule. "For the first time, I became interested in the coloured centres of … tool capable of creating extreme pressures, comparable to those at the centre of the Earth. "These are two …
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