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In search of antimatter

… numerous science-fiction writers and fuelled their wildest literary fantasies: fuel for spaceships for some, a … physics. Introducing the notion of space-time, the link between energy and the mass of an object, and the speed of …

Published on: Thu 11/04/2024 - 15:56

Showers burst from sources - L'Edition 13 (June 2020)

… energy from its origins to its arrival on Earth. In order to better understand it, researchers are following the traces … questions. Originating from meanders through the interstellar medium, these rays, invisible to the human eye, bombard …

Published on: Fri 31/07/2020 - 13:40

A new boom in additive manufacturing

… manufacturing and factories of the future. This includes process optimisation, part control and the development … the gradual removal of patents on its processes and the marketing of the first 3D printers. To begin with, these were …

Published on: Thu 27/10/2022 - 11:04

Understanding the heterogeneity of autism forms

… Understanding the heterogeneity of autism forms Understanding … forms Research This article was originally published in the latest issue of  L'Édition  N. 20. Researchers at Université … However, can people with autism see themselves in the description of their disorder? Because much is still …

Published on: Fri 03/03/2023 - 15:01

Quantum ambitions: positioning France at the cutting edge of technology

… Université Paris-Saclay researchers are involved.  The President of Université Paris-Saclay, Sylvie Retailleau announced in the lead-up to the conference … photons, nuclear spins, electron spins, etc. However, despite numerous announcements concerning the …

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

Dark energy, the mystery challenging cosmology

… energy". But what exactly is dark energy? New experiments designed to scan the cosmos and involving researchers from Université Paris-Saclay, will attempt to determine this over the coming years. Research The universe …

Published on: Wed 14/05/2025 - 08:37

ERC Consolidator Grants 2023 : two laureates linked to Université Paris-Saclay

… careers where they may still be consolidating their own independent research teams to pursue their most promising … Saclay are linked to Université Paris-Saclay: Basile Gallet for his project, P-BOT Basile Gallet, is a researcher at … wide that are not resolved by most climate models despite being key contributors to ocean transport. In the …

Published on: Thu 23/11/2023 - 14:22

Jean-François Le Gall – a strange sort of menu for a mathematician

… sort of menu for a mathematician A member of the French Academy of Sciences, mathematician Jean-François Le Gall is a … that has decisively advanced the field of random geometry. Specifically, he is the first mathematician to have … in France, developed progressively over the past six decades and, since 2006, has given rise to three Fields medals. …

Published on: Mon 01/04/2019 - 08:00

Quandela, the CNRS, Université Paris- Saclay and Université Paris Cité join forces to accelerate research and innovation in quantum photonics

… Quandela, the CNRS, Université Paris- Saclay and Université Paris … CEO), Giancarlo Faini (Director of Centre for Nanoscience et Nanotechnology), Valérian Giesz (Quandela co-founder and … photonics, which has been developed since the late twentieth century, seeks to take advantage of the specifically …

Published on: Fri 15/11/2024 - 16:00

Alzheimer’s disease: mysteries and new leads

… in  L'Édition  N.21 . Alzheimer’s disease is a neurodegenerative pathology that affects almost one million … with a very high prevalence and incidence rate,” says Yvette Akwa, researcher at the Diseases and Hormones of the … specifically cleave APP to produce amyloid-beta peptides.”  Aβ40 and Aβ42 peptides, derived from APP cleavage, …

Published on: Thu 13/07/2023 - 16:57

Will language be deciphered by new technologies?

… Will language be deciphered by new technologies? Will language be deciphered … genomics, artificial intelligence and machine translation, etc. Researchers in the laboratories at Université … 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

Weakening vinyl polymers for better degradation

… Weakening vinyl polymers for better degradation Weakening vinyl polymers for better degradation … case acrylamide) and a CKA results in a material which degrades very quickly in water (by about 70% in seven days)!” For …

Published on: Thu 30/06/2022 - 15:56