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Bubbles, defects and precipitates: materials in extreme conditions

… produced in non-negligible quantities by the fusion between deuterium and tritium. These elements have an impact … a periodically ordered arrangement of atoms, which are sometimes ejected on collision with neutrons released during … ions pass through the material and create displacement cascades: they collide with the nuclei of the atoms they meet and …

Published on: Wed 25/01/2023 - 11:34

Aurélien de la Torre is awarded an ERC Consolidator grant

… grants. A total of €678 million in funding will be shared between 328 winning scientists, including Aurélien de la … centres”. This is the main message of F. Lovering et al. in their seminal article “Escape from Flatland” … in 2009 and which induced a paradigm shift in drug design. The first recommendation (higher proportion of Csp3) …

Published on: Tue 17/12/2024 - 10:14

Kfé EFE, Water sports and gender in PE: The case of sailing and surfing

… gender in PE: The case of sailing and surfing Our work provides a sociological analysis of the gender and social class … success. The qualitative analysis, combining interviews and ethnographic observations, highlights the socialization … the impact of gender and social class as these factors determine the production and/or maintenance of inequalities. …

Published on: Tue 06/02/2024 - 19:07

Nathalie Carrasco: Replicating extraterrestrial phenomena to understand the emergence of life on Earth

… Research Nathalie Carrasco is a research professor in planetary science at the Atmospheres, Environments, Space … but discovered laboratory life during her undergraduate and Master’s work placements. At the same time, the young … as a chemist.” She obtained her ‘Habilitation à diriger des recherches’ or HDR (authorisation to direct the research …

Published on: Fri 03/09/2021 - 08:53

The Quandela journey: from single photons sources to quantum computers

… unit stores data in binary form (0 or 1) depending on whether an electric current is flowing through a circuit. A sequence of bits (i.e. a string of 0s and 1s) then provides a given piece of information, which is transformed by … by quantum objects (photons, atoms, superconductors, etc.) and its state is less clear-cut than that of the bit. …

Published on: Fri 29/11/2024 - 11:00

Jean-Yves Le Gall elected Chair of Université Paris-Saclay’s Strategic Advisory Board

… of France’s national space agency, the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES) until April 2021, was unanimously … Jean-Yves Le Gall was President of the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), the French national space agency. …

Published on: Mon 21/06/2021 - 14:26

Canada-France Committee on Science, Technology and Innovation

… French universities at the first strategic council meeting of the Canada-France Joint Committee on Science, … collaborations and partnerships in research and education between French and Canadian universities. … French universities at the first strategic council meeting of the Canada-France Joint Committee on Science, …

Published on: Sat 06/05/2023 - 10:00

Reaction to France’s new Immigration bill

… at the end of the parliamentary debates, we strongly regret the bill’s current version, which is an attack on the … of our academic community.  Furthermore, introducing a blanket increase in tuition fees for non-EU students, without exception, will have a detrimental effect on the number, geographic origin and …

Published on: Wed 20/12/2023 - 13:52

Thomas Pesquet live from space on 17 June

… Thomas Pesquet live from space on 17 June Thomas Pesquet live from space on 17 June   Don’t miss out on the chance … Heure de debut 12:30 pm Information Thursday 17 June, 12:30 Description On Thursday 17 June at 12.30pm, the astronaut …

Published on: Mon 19/04/2021 - 23:05

James Webb Space Telescope: when astrophysicists see (infra)red

… Telescope (JWST) is the latest in a 25-year collaboration between the US (NASA), European (ESA) and Canadian (CSA) … Space Telescope, which was launched in 2003 and has completed its mission, and with which the JWST also shares the … was led by CEA under the guidance of CNES.  The design, construction and assembly of MIRIm was carried out …

Published on: Thu 16/12/2021 - 11:36

DYMCOM - From laboratory to beyond Earth, Quantum regimes and near thresholds dynamics probed by theory and experiments.

… dynamics probed by theory and experiments. … Dynamical Methods for COld Molecular collisions, from laboratory to … Wiesenfeld (CNRS/U. Paris-Saclay, FR, chair) Annemieke Petrignani  (FELIX, U. Nijmegen, NL) Maxence Lepers (CNRS/U. … the many difficulties that prevent rapid progress, and describe the experimental and observa­tional challenges.  …

Published on: Fri 10/01/2020 - 10:20

Live from asteroid Ryugu: analysis of extraterrestrial samples using atomic force microscopy and infrared spectroscopy

… Ryugu Through their organic compounds, asteroids and comets provide scientists with crucial information on the … these small, solid celestial bodies. Chosen as the target of the Hayabusa 2 space mission, launched on 13 December … back on the return journey, landing in the Australian desert in December 2020. The samples were then sent to …

Published on: Wed 07/02/2024 - 14:27