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- 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 (...)
15 January 2010
Improved estimate of glacier decline in Alaska.
Glaciologists at the Laboratory for Space Studies in Geophysics and Oceanography (LEGOS – CNRS/CNES/IRD/Université Toulouse 3) and their US and Canadian colleagues (1) have shown that previous (...)
- 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 (...)
