I 8 FEBRUARY 2010 Hadrontherapy, a treatment for X-ray resistant cancers CNRS and ARCHADE (1) have joined forces in order to develop hadrontherapy. This new radiotherapy technique is already used in certain cases to treat patients whose tumors are resistant to (...)
27 January 2010 Smart capsules that release their contents at a selected temperature How can an active principle be delivered in a controlled way? Until now, there was no obvious answer to this question. Now however, researchers at the CNRS Paul Pascal Research Center in Bordeaux (...)
20 january 2010 Alain Fuchs appointed as president of CNRS Alain Fuchs has been appointed as president of CNRS by the Council of Ministers on January 20th, 2010, on the recommendation of the Minister of Higher Education and Research. He will take over from (...)
January 20, 2010 Pollutants from Asia arrive over the Western United States With Asia remaining a region with rapid economic, population and industrial growth, the large-scale impact of emissions leading to air pollution is fast becoming an issue. For the first time, a study (...)
October 6, 2006 CNRS Gold Medal for 2006 : Jacques Stern The CNRS Gold Medal, France's highest distinction for scientific research, has been awarded this year to Jacques Stern, 57, Professor at the ENS École normale supérieure (ENS), Director of the ENS (...)