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Jean Dalibard receives the CNRS 2021 Gold Medal
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06.24.2021 |
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2021 CNRS Gold Medal
A brilliant physicist and a leading specialist in cold atoms, an area that is central to light-matter interaction, Jean Dalibard has been awarded the CNRS 2021 Gold Medal, one of France’s highest scientific distinctions.
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How optogenetics has restored partial sight to a blind patient
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06.23.2021 |
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Biology
Thanks to gene therapy and the use of adapted spectacles, a blind patient is now able to distinguish the shape of objects to recognise, count and grasp them. José-Alain Sahel, the lead author of this study published in Nature Medicine and a founding member of the Institut de la Vision, explains the science behind this extraordinary breakthrough.
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Fariba Adelkhah’s struggle for freedom
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06.02.2021 |
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Portrait Arrested in Tehran two years ago and sentenced to five years of detention, the French-Iranian anthropologist has been released from prison but remains under house arrest. She was recently awarded the Irène Joliot-Curie Prize for “Female Scientist of the Year”.
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Forthcoming revolution will unveil the secrets of matter
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06.15.2021 |
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Computer science Provided adapted software can be developed, exascale computing, a new generation of supercomputers, will offer massive power to model the properties of molecules and materials, while taking into account their fundamental interactions and quantum mechanics. The European TREX project is set to meet... |
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The poles at the centre of the world stage
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06.07.2021 |
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Geopolitics At first sight, the remote, icy polar regions may appear superficially similar. But they are in fact very different places: the Antarctic and the Arctic have neither the same history nor the same legal status. CNRS News takes a look at the geopolitical significance of the poles, as France prepares... |
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The story of AIDS, from fear to fight
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06.29.2021 |
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History The first identified cases of AIDS, in 1981, caused an outbreak of panic, along with widespread discrimination. Since medical science initially proved powerless, people with AIDS and support groups campaigned vigorously for access to treatment and democratic healthcare. Nevertheless, inequalities... |
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Why the “Gulf Stream” is a misnomer
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06.08.2021 |
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Oceanography At school, we learned that the Gulf Stream was the warm current that flows across the Atlantic. Yet according to oceanographer Julie Deshayes, things aren't quite so simple. The scientist prefers to speak of the “Atlantic Overturning Circulation” to describe the many ocean eddies that converge on... |
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