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The magic of sound and light physics
04.28.2026
Maïmouna Bocoum, a physicist specialising in acousto-optics at the Paris-based Langevin Institute, develops imaging technologies for the early detection of breast tumours. She was awarded this year’s...
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From popular astronomy to astrophysics
01.16.2026
A young Madagascan girl looks the Sun through a telescope
One hundred years after the death of the French astronomer and populariser of science Camille Flammarion, the CNRS physicist Jean-Philippe Uzan follows in the footsteps of his predecessor’s...
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Gravitational wave detections spark great expectations
11.03.2025
This illustration shows the merger of two black holes and the gravitational waves that ripple outward as the black holes spiral toward each other.
On 14 September, 2015, the international LIGO/Virgo collaboration detected the very first gravitational wave signal, a tiny distortion of spacetime predicted by Einstein, in this case produced by the...
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French-Chinese satellite to unlock the secrets of gamma-ray bursts
06.27.2024
On 22 June, a Chinese Long March 2C rocket launched the SVOM satellite, carrying two French-designed instruments, into orbit. The mission's goals are to investigate the mechanism of gamma-ray...
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Wanda Diaz-Merced, the astronomer who listens to the stars
07.21.2023
Blind since her teenage years, Wanda Diaz-Merced has developed a technique called “sonification” to convert astrophysical signals into sounds. Building on the success of this impressive tool for...
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Black holes and neutron stars meet up with a bang
07.03.2021
The LIGO and Virgo observatories have announced the very first sightings of the merger of a black hole and a neutron star. These discoveries should help gain a better understanding of how these...
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