9 February 2012 The turbulent birth of super star clusters in galaxy mergers By combining two of the most advanced telescopes in the world -- the new Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) and the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of ESO -- a team of French astronomers from the (...)
9 February 20012 A novel, reliable and rapid method for detecting living bacteria One of the major challenges in terms of microbiological quality control and public health is to be able to count and identify, both quickly and simultaneously, the bacteria living in an environment. (...)
8 February 2012 Very large-scale research infrastructure for geophysics : RESIF Officially launched on February 8, the Very Large-Scale Research Infrastructure RESIF (French seismologic and geodetic network) aims to set up a geophysical observation array covering the whole of (...)
25 January 2012 Nanomedicine : "Russian doll" polymer vesicles mimic cell structure Nanomedicine faces two main challenges: controlling the synthesis of extremely small vectors containing one or several active ingredients and releasing these agents in the right place at the right (...)