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04.08.2020
Virtually all of the 1,100 CNRS research and service units closed their doors on Monday 16 March, finding solutions to allow their personnel to work from home. Except for the laboratories conducting...
Opinion
09.26.2016
Today, researchers are still primarily evaluated on their contributions to articles published in scientific journals. But what is the real value of such contributions when there are several dozen or...
Slideshow
12.29.2015
From the discovery of new particles to the development of a promising treatment against lupus, or the unprecedented mobilization of climatologists for the COP21, French research was in 2015 marked by...
Article
12.17.2015
Measuring the impact of an ice-free Arctic on the natural environment; creating the world’s first molecule-sized microchip; and granting easy access to the entire database of astronomical...