Researcher portraits, Research
… the face of climate change, species react in one of three ways: through local adaptation, changes in phenology (the … purpose such as hunting, and the species that become vulnerable due to such introductions. "It's no accident, invasive … involved in the public debate regarding France's ecological planning and the setting of conservation targets. At the …
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… the entrance exam reserved for foreign students. She was particularly interested in applied mathematics and … Her PhD thesis focused on "the stabilisation of discrete-time quantum systems and the stability of continuous-time quantum filters" and was the result of her meeting with researchers Mazyar …
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… Green Fusyon is transforming by-products from biogas plants to produce chlorella, a nutrient-rich microalga. It … Innovation In response to the ecological transition, new ways of eating have been emerging in recent years: edible … very high in protein, it contains omega-3 fatty acids comparable to those found in fish oil - a rarity in the plant …
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… Different states of condensed matter Research (This article was originally published in L'Edition No.14 ) Physicists of … properties of matter. “Oh! endless collage, shifting planes, the bleeding sun, the deep sea scattered with … not by the phonons.” By measuring the RPE signal – 2.3 times higher - the researchers concluded that the microwave …
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… (CO 2 ), one of most abundant greenhouse gases on the planet. "In their natural state, there is a balance between … 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 …
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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 … of the brain. An inaccurate notion In the past, an explanation for human cognitive abilities has long been sought … 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 Director of the Geoscience, Climate, Environment and Planets Graduate School at Université Paris-Saclay . He was … 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 exoplanets … 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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