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Olfatask: the role of olfaction in bees, queens of social organisation

… in insect colonies?   Age as the first response In the 1960s, while observing bees, scientists identified the first clue: a correlation between the role of bees in a hive and their age. The … encoded calcium sensor in the honey bee . PLoS Biology , 21(1): e3001984, 1-20, 2023. … Olfatask: the role of …

Published on: Wed 29/01/2025 - 17:16

Frédéric Chevallier: atmospheric inversion turned on its head

… Rennes, where Frédéric Chevallier grew up reading Sciences et Vie magazine, particularly the articles on aerospace, … he learnt by heart. Later, he was inspired by a 2nd year Master's internship at the Dynamic Meteorology Laboratory … apply to various atmospheric radiation applications in the 1990s. "Today, we talk about automatic learning and …

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

Artworks, cultural goods: Re-examining questions of provenance and restitution

… This article was originally published in L'Édition n°26 . Whether it's artworks or cultural goods looted during wars or … - with the aim of preserving and bequeathing them ." In 2012, Marie Cornu published a Dictionnaire comparé du droit du … an intensive week of workshops and conferences for PhD and Master’s degrees’ students at Université Paris-Saclay was …

Published on: Mon 17/03/2025 - 08:38

Architects are listening

… can you understand the acoustics of a room that does not yet exist? These are some of the questions at the forefront … a former PhD student at LIMSI (which merged with the LRI on 1 January 2021 to become the Laboratoire interdisciplinaire des sciences …

Published on: Wed 31/03/2021 - 10:21

Jean-Michel Bismut: The geometrisation of probability

… Jean-Michel Bismut: The geometrisation of probability Jean-Michel Bismut: The … of mathematics. He has also been awarded the prestigious 2021 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences. Jean-Michel Bismut graduated from the ‘École polytechnique’ in 1970 and the ‘École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris’ …

Published on: Thu 07/10/2021 - 13:54

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 … an increase in malnutrition and disease affecting nearly 71 million people," warns the researcher.  In Kenya, where … are relying on multidisciplinarity.  During the Covid-19 pandemic, the pooling of observations by hospitals and …

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 … on the Red Planet. Research Curiosity rover on Mars Since 2012, the Curiosity rover part of NASA's Mars Science … are composed of a succession of carbon atoms - in this case 10, 11 and 12 atoms - bonded to hydrogen atoms.   …

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

Antoinette Lemoine : oncogenetics for therapeutic purposes

… Antoinette Lemoine : oncogenetics for therapeutic purposes … choose a research position in the year which graduated in 1984. She carried out her entire work placement in the … therapies The great analytical power of NGS and the mastery of bioinformatics tools to interpret data provide …

Published on: Fri 11/06/2021 - 15:28

Nuclear fusion: steps towards energy production

… are involved in this research. Initiated by the Covid-19 pandemic and brought to a head by the war in Ukraine, the … the world’s energy needs are and the calls for energy sobriety underline how difficult it is to reduce these needs … electrical repulsion. In a star, the temperature – over 10 million degrees Celsius – lifts this barrier. Matter is …

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

Quantum ambitions: positioning France at the cutting edge of technology

… (This article was originally published in  L'Edition No.18 ) An overview of some of the projects that are part of … The President of Université Paris-Saclay, Sylvie Retailleau announced in the lead-up to the conference … strengthening Europe’s leadership), which took place on 21 st February 2022 as part of France’s EU presidency: …

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

The neutrino: towards physics and beyond

… (This article was originally published in  L'Édition n°16 ) Thanks to large-scale experiments, physicists at … to a new model of particle physics.  Developed in the mid-1970s and extended since then, the Standard Model is the … Based on discoveries made over 100 years ago, this theoretical model organises and describes the elementary building …

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 … at all. It is therefore quite logical that, since the 1940s, artificial intelligence (AI) has sought to reproduce … functional connectivity. " NeuroImage vol. 249 (2022): 118795. Caucheteux, C., King, JR. Brains and algorithms …

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