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Bouncing Lasers off the Moon
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11.25.2019
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Physics
Fifty years after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's historic moonwalk, scientific instruments deployed on the Moon's surface continue to supply valuable data to scientists. Using these reflectors still in place on the Moon's surface, a team of researchers and engineers in France measure the Earth-Moon distance with millimetric precision.
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A Digital Twin for Notre-Dame
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11.13.2019 |
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Modeling
Creating a Google Earth of sorts for the cathedral of Paris, that is the ambitious project of a team of researchers. Their objective is clear: to gather all past and future knowledge about the structure within a collaborative platform.
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Can we Create Environmentally-Friendly Plastics?
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11.14.2019 |
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Environment This year, the world will produce 360 million tons of plastics. From their disposal in the environment to implications on human health, this has become a major societal issue. The chemists and polymer scientists Sophie Guillaume and Jean-François Gérard explain how research is trying to find... |
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Thomas Ebbesen: "I Feel like an Explorer"
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11.25.2019 |
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Physics chemistry On Tuesday November 26, Thomas Ebbesen was awarded the CNRS Gold Medal, one of France's highest scientific distinctions. The author of several groundbreaking discoveries, the French-Norwegian physical-chemist discusses his current research into uncovering the secrets of matter. |
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What Makes our Continents Dance?
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11.18.2019 |
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Geophysics What forces move the tectonic plates of the Earth's surface? A team of geophysicists drawn primarily from two CNRS laboratories used a 3D simulation of our planet to answer this 50-year-old question. |
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Tracing Back the Potters of Pompeii
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11.18.2019 |
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Archaeology In the year 79 CE, the eruption of Vesuvius froze the life of Pompeii in one brief instant. Nearly two thousand years later, archaeologists are trying to reconstruct the city’s history and activity. One of them is Laetitia Cavassa, who is conducting a study on Pompeii’s potters. She recounts her... |
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Faster and Greener Data Storage
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11.20.2019
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nanoscience About 90% of the digital information that exists today was created in the past two years. Finding new materials able to capture this expanding digital world—and that are less energy-hungry—has become a priority for many research laboratories around the world. The Jean Lamour Institute in the East... |
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Why Virtual Assistants Need a Body
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11.12.2019 |
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Robotics Alexa and Google Home Assistant are just a first step. Since voice is not enough on its own, scientists are working to create virtual beings that can communicate through gestures and facial expressions as well. This is far from an easy task, as Justine Cassell and Catherine Pelachaud explain.
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Monitoring Glaciers at the Top of the world
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11.14.2019 |
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Glaciology What impact does climate change have on Himalayan glaciers? Over the last ten years, an international team of scientists has studied the gradual evolution of glaciers in Nepal, a phenomenon that could threaten local populations. This year, part of the team will once again be on site to continue... |
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