An Institute that Matters From the subtle intricacies of a piano's melody to the deafening sound of supersonic planes– researchers at the recently created Jean le Rond d'Alembert Institute are exploring the extremely varied (...)
Common Origins of Pygmies and Bantus A team from CNRS and the Institut Pasteur (1), working with researchers in bioinformatics, ethnolinguistics, and epidemiology, (2) suggests that Central African Pygmies and Bantus, two physically (...)
Beaming GANIL turns 25 Twenty-five years of consistent scientific breakthroughs is a good track record for any facility. Researchers continue to break new ground in particle physics at the GANIL heavy-ion accelerator in (...)
How to Keep an X Silent CNRS researchers might have discovered the molecular event that triggers the chain reaction responsible for X inactivation–the silencing of one of the two X chromosomes during early development in (...)
Self-Healing Rubber A rubber that can repair itself spontaneously in ambient conditions: This is the amazing material that a CNRS/ESPCI team led by Ludwik Leibler has invented. The potential applications are countless.
A View on Pangaea A Franco-Laotian team has recently finished investigating a 255 million-year-old sedimentary basin on the right bank of the Mekong River. The researchers' objective is to reconstruct the landscape (...)
Keeping the World in Check Both in and out of the lab, Joseph Sifakis' discoveries help decipher and master the very nature of information. His pioneering work on Model Checking, the most common method for verifying industrial (...)