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Extreme Blazars: when particle acceleration reaches new heights

… recently conducted the first inventory of the most energetic of them all: extreme blazars. To gain a better … A specific classification is set in stone. This provides a very good basis for further research on this type of object," concludes Jonathan Biteau. J Biteau, J., Prandini, E., Costamante, …

Published on: Thu 06/02/2020 - 16:08

Paul Leadley: Studying the impacts of global change on biodiversity

… Interdisciplinary Studies on Biodiversity, Agroecology, Society and Climate) at Université Paris-Saclay. A specialist in … (C-BASC) - whose mission is to contribute to the study, design and implementation of the ecological and … on the ground," says Paul Leadley. Is this a reason to despair? "No. There are so many local initiatives around …

Published on: Thu 21/09/2023 - 15:30

Aqemia: in search of new therapeutic molecules

… drug candidates 10,000 times more efficiently than its competitors. Innovation Aqemia 's story began at the École … calculations). Sixty people work on unique algorithms to design small molecules which will be used in the future to … mathematics and atomic and computational physics," concludes Aqemia's CEO. … Aqemia: in search of new therapeutic …

Published on: Wed 17/04/2024 - 14:53

Doctoral missions: an opportunity to raise public awareness of science

… of the options available to them. Doctorate Science and society " It's great to have multiple activities because we … aux sciences (MISS), a centre based on the Orsay campus and designed to introduce and raise awareness of science based … has welcomed nearly a hundred PhD candidates who have both designed and presented its workshops. " We currently have …

Published on: Tue 17/06/2025 - 14:10

Unlocking the potential of blockchain

… Paris-Saclay are currently working on.  Bitcoin (2008) and Ethereum (2015) are the most well-known, while Zcash (2016), … so that users, particularly those in industry, are able to describe their programme and its normal behaviour,” explains … a fairly powerful language and many tools to express the desired properties easily. It is used to transition towards …

Published on: Tue 20/07/2021 - 15:20

Low-energy cosmic rays: between mysteries and applications

… Low-energy cosmic rays: between mysteries and applications Low-energy cosmic rays: … this radiation comes from supernova star explosions," concludes the astrophysicist. The energy distribution of the … time. The reason was solar modulation, a phenomenon that describes the particle winds emitted by the Sun into the …

Published on: Fri 15/03/2024 - 16:08

Overcoming therapeutic resistance in cancer

… Overcoming therapeutic resistance in cancer Research Targeted therapies, which first appeared during the start of the … limits. Not all cancers are responsive. For lung cancers, despite the fact that ten or so oncogenes (genes which … site, it may prevent binding to the TKI. In another case, described as a “bypass pathway” the appearance of a mutation …

Published on: Fri 04/06/2021 - 17:57

Beef has not had the last word

… more eco-friendly alternatives such as chicken, pork and vegetable substitutes. To implement this idea, there is an … Yet this land has been reducing in size for many decades now because of urbanisation, desertification and global warming. This is especially the …

Published on: Thu 06/01/2022 - 17:03

Stefan Haar: Pushing the boundaries of discrete event dynamic systems

… Stefan Haar: Pushing the boundaries of discrete event dynamic systems Stefan Haar: Pushing the … Stefan Haar is a researcher in the Laboratoire méthodes formelles (LMF – Univ. Paris-Saclay, CNRS, ENS … which involves comparing a measured value to the desired value and processing the resulting error signal. …

Published on: Thu 05/05/2022 - 15:16

Pierre Gilles Lemarié-Rieusset: From wavelets to Navier-Stokes

… Pierre Gilles Lemarié-Rieusset: From wavelets to Navier-Stokes Pierre Gilles … work”. It is easy to imagine the mathematician alone at his desk, far from the hustle and bustle of the world…and yet, … best mathematicians in the world to our teams,” he concludes.   Pierre-Gilles Lemarié-Rieusset - Credits Christophe …

Published on: Fri 03/06/2022 - 16:33

Gravitational waves: listening to the vibrations of the universe

… seen thanks to very high-tech instruments called interferometers. What interest do these waves have for scientists and … the challenge for physicists throughout the world was to design a device capable of perceiving the minute movements … instrument for measuring one distance from another,” concludes Nicolas Leroy. During the 19th century, when they were …

Published on: Thu 20/10/2022 - 15:18

Marie Erard: A chemist tackling life head-on

… level. To achieve this, she is developing analytical methods based on fluorescence spectro-imaging. For the past … Erard discovered the field of chemistry coming from and destined for living organisms during an internship at the … The subject of her thesis, Détection par ultramicroélectrodes de flux femtomolaires émis par une cellule vivante …

Published on: Tue 19/12/2023 - 11:29