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Holiday-makers cross paths at the beach, but so do multiple facets of physics and mathematics. Three research projects are working to better describe this environment so highly sensitive to climate change.
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07.23.2026
The Chinese mathematician Hong Wang is the co-winner of the 2026 Fields Medal (the equivalent of the Nobel prize for the discipline). This distinction recognises work on solutions for the Kakeya conjecture in three dimensions, an extension from a century-old...
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07.22.2026
Ransomware is a type of malicious software (malware) that develops within an ecosystem combining criminality, cyber espionage, and disinformation. CNRS News investigates.
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07.21.2026
Sophie Germain’s name will soon be engraved on the Eiffel Tower. A brilliant self-taught mathematician, she had to fight throughout her life to gain equal recognition to her male contemporaries, and bore the full brunt of the sexism of her time.
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05.28.2026
07.22.2025
Digital cemeteries, deadbots… Is the development of digital tools changing the way we cope with death and mourning, as depicted in David Cronenberg’s latest film "The Shrouds"?
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07.02.2025
A recognised physicist for her work on quantum boxes, Pascale Senellart conducts her research at the joint research laboratory between the Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and the start-up...
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05.22.2025
Since 1928, the Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris has been home to more than 600 mathematical models. Designed in the late 19th century for teaching purposes, they also inspired the Surrealists. Now...