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Frédéric Chevallier: atmospheric inversion turned on its head

… Rennes, where Frédéric Chevallier grew up reading Sciences et Vie magazine, particularly the articles on aerospace, … inspired by a 2nd year Master's internship at the Dynamic Meteorology Laboratory (LMD – CNRS/École Polytechnique/ENS - … " MicroCarb will be launched by the Centre national d'études spatiales (CNES) in early summer 2025. More compact, …

Published on: Wed 05/02/2025 - 12:05

Marie-Luce Taupin: using statistics to explain the living world

… , Marie-Luce Taupin specialises in advanced statistical methods applied to the life sciences and healthcare. She is … responsibilities. Researcher portraits Research After completing a scientific baccalaureate, Marie-Luce Taupin embarked … to survival analysis While teaching at the Université Paris-Descartes Technical Institute (IUT) (now the Paris Rives de …

Published on: Thu 06/03/2025 - 14:50

Loïc Bertrand: Revealing previously unseen heritage knowledge through micro-imaging

… using micro-imaging and reveals the previously unseen secrets of certain heritage objects. Loïc Bertrand studied … condensed-matter chemistry at the ‘École polytechnique’ between 1994 and 1997. He also attended optional courses in … and these meetings inspired me greatly. They confirmed my desire to study ancient materials.” In 1999 up until 2002, …

Published on: Fri 22/10/2021 - 09:25

Stéphanie Baumberger: Developing products from agricultural activity

… activity. Following a 2-year preparatory course for the competitive exam in biology and after training as an engineer in … she became interested in the benefits of creating links between research and teaching, so she applied for and … theatre workshops into her science courses.    The desire to disseminate knowledge After ten years involved in …

Published on: Fri 28/01/2022 - 10:34

Environment, animals, humans: The one health approach

… our environment is full of dangers for human beings means rethinking medicine through the "one health" approach, which … liveable, including the fight against climate change, the detection of zoonoses, diseases carried by animals such as … worldwide. "Bee mortality is reaching a worrying and widespread level," stresses Fabrice Requier, research fellow …

Published on: Fri 15/12/2023 - 17:17

Curiosity detects new organic molecules: a step closer to the discovery of past life on Mars?

… Curiosity detects new organic molecules: a step closer to the discovery of past life on Mars? Curiosity detects new organic molecules: a step closer to the discovery … in the absence of a dense atmosphere, would otherwise destroy any organic molecules down to a depth of two metres …

Published on: Tue 25/03/2025 - 16:56

Developing new antibiotics using gut microbiota

… against antibiotic resistance, is one of Olivier Berteau’s pet subjects at the Institute for Food Microbiology for Human … compounds. Olivier Berteau and his Chemistry and synthetic biology (ChemSyBio) team at the Micalis Institute have …     Understanding gut microbiota Gut microbiota includes all the micro-organisms which live in the small …

Published on: Tue 13/07/2021 - 13:31

Michel Beaudouin-Lafon: seeing IT as a collaborative tool

… carrying out at the University for 40 years.   After completing a baccalaureate in science and the 2-year preparatory course for the competitive exams, Michel Beaudouin-Lafon began his higher … our WILD and WILDER video walls. These will become more widespread in the future. Collaborative work interests me a …

Published on: Fri 08/07/2022 - 16:37

Nuclear fusion: steps towards energy production

… the world’s energy needs are and the calls for energy sobriety underline how difficult it is to reduce these needs … easy, given their large share of the energy mix. Moreover, despite their many advantages, none of these energies is alone fully meeting the energy needs of the current societies. As a …

Published on: Fri 20/01/2023 - 11:33

Quantum ambitions: positioning France at the cutting edge of technology

… The President of Université Paris-Saclay, Sylvie Retailleau announced in the lead-up to the conference … their strong potential for disruption and economic and societal transformation, quantum technologies are one of the … photons, nuclear spins, electron spins, etc. However, despite numerous announcements concerning the …

Published on: Fri 27/05/2022 - 10:04

The neutrino: towards physics and beyond

… Based on discoveries made over 100 years ago, this theoretical model organises and describes the elementary building blocks (fermions) that … forces of the universe – strong, weak and electromagnetic.  Although the majority of the experimental results …

Published on: Thu 12/08/2021 - 09:00

Will language be deciphered by new technologies?

… genomics, artificial intelligence and machine translation, etc. Researchers in the laboratories at Université … to understand its very essence and to develop tools for society. Most living things can communicate with each other … A model such as this (BERT or GPT-2, for example), which is designed to mimic human linguistic performance to a greater …

Published on: Thu 21/07/2022 - 10:53