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… Brigaud's vocation. Passionate about nature since he was a young boy, he became interested in the world and the … what happened when sediments were transformed into rocks, but also and above all to put an age on these diagenetic … the same site." Based on this intuition, Benjamin Brigaud set up a multidisciplinary course in the Morvan region of …
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… and services purchased by consumers. The climatic hell towards which we seem to be heading is paved with good … made. On the one hand, governments are failing to set common climate commitments. On the other hand, civil and … services, a consortium of more than 100 companies, distributors and trade federations have put in place innovative …
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… via organocatalysis) aims to synthesize polyesters from renewable resources, using organic catalysts. In the future, … fibres in clothing (60% of current plastic production), but also in plastic bottles and other food packaging (30%). … less than 1% of the world's total polymer production, is set to rise sharply in the years ahead. These future …
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… inactive (OFF) to the active (ON) state , and shortly afterwards the first structure of a GTPase-activating protein. … successes, Jacqueline Cherfils obtained funding to set up a team and purchase equipment. Since the late 90s, … Jacqueline Cherfils' work has won countless awards. But it's undoubtedly her latest accolade, her Femmes en …
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… Paris-Sud (now Université Paris-Saclay) in 1985. It was there that she earned her master's degree and embarked … of maximal attractors, guaranteeing the existence of a set of states towards which the solutions evolve. "Contrary … work in numerical analysis Laure Quivy's scientific contributions in numerical analysis and scientific computing are …
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… Doctor in Gastroenterology at Saint-Antoine Hospital, who was writing a thesis on the analysis of the microbiota … prausnitzii (Fprau), absent in relapsed patients but present in those in remission. They then demonstrated … unit, he embarked on the entrepreneurial adventure to set up a biotech company at the end of 2015. Together with …
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… published this portrait of Gilles Dowek, who passed away on Monday, 21 July 2025. This portrait will continue to pay tribute to the scientist he was. Gilles Dowek was a director … proof systems and the lack of equivalence between them, he set out to develop universal logical frameworks. "I felt …
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… of the Earth's formation from an early age. As a child, she was fascinated by a lecture given by Maurice and Katia … "The Earth's rocky mantle may be solid on our scale, but in fact it deforms at a speed comparable to that at … of NASA's VERITAS mission, an orbiter scheduled to set off to map Venus in 2031. " My role is to model the …
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… international regulation of artificial intelligence. She was recently named Chevalière de l'Ordre des Arts et des … - Management) of Université Paris-Saclay and actively contributes to the scientific policy of the constituent faculties … where she created a work-study programme on digital law. "I set up a research orientation dedicated to digital …
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… A strategic Franco-British partnership to push forward artificial intelligence for science, the economy and … – Oxford & Cambridge AI Initiative, we are proud to contribute to the development of ethical AI which can meet the … a forthcoming Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which will set out the governance structure, deadlines and resources …
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… her interest in mathematics. From secondary school onwards, she took part in many national competitions and … mathematics as little more than a collection of tricks; but at that time, I discovered an unsuspected conceptual … She decided to cross the Atlantic to join the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she defended her …
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… discipline, she is convinced that major discoveries are always the result of collective work. Nothing predestined … elusive particles, among the most abundant in the universe but also the most difficult to detect. "It was a complete … the two, in close proximity to the source, there is a set of instruments called a "near detector": this is where …
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