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16.02.21
A nuclear safety issue: Modeling corium fusion
While severe accidents are extremely rare in nuclear power plants, it is nonetheless vital to be able to prevent them and, if they do occur, to manage...
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12.02.21
Understanding space in laboratory
Their dimensions and distances make most astrophysical phenomena inaccessible to experimentation. To better understand them, researchers use...
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27.01.21
Salt caverns to store hydrogen?
Deep underground, France hides deposits of crystallized salts over a large part of its territory. In total, more than 20,000km² of salt, hundreds of...
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27.01.21
A MOOC on the challenges of renewable energies for the power grid
Variable renewable energies such as wind and solar power are expected to become the main contributors to the world's power systems as a large number...
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25.01.21
2021, A New Space Odyssey
Space missions will accelerate in 2021, pushing back the limits of this new frontier and our knowledge of the cosmos, but potentially opening up a new...
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25.01.21
2021, A New Space Odyssey – Chronology
You will find elow a chronology of space missions in 2021. In space exploration, even more than in other journeys, shedules are subject to change....
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21.01.21
The first laser pixels
Based on an idea given by Gérard Mourou, Professor Emeritus of the Ecole Polytechnique and recipient of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics, the XCAN...
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21.01.21
What looks alike comes together: the origin of actine's branching networks
The role of the actin filaments as the skeleton of the cell is very well identified, but its implementation has so far been unclear. It is the veil of...
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05.01.21
New experiments at CERN
© 2020 CERN, Noemi Caraban Gonzalez Heavy ion physics is a fundamental area of physics explored by two teams at the Leprince Ringuet Laboratory (LLR*)...
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05.01.21
Towards an understanding of the reaction of plants to the wind
Electrical response of the "switch" MSL10 of the Arabidopsis thaliana model plant solicited by a continuous stimulation or by a stimulation mimicking...
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16.12.20
Tribute to François Mathey
François Mathey, born in 1941, was a committed chemist from an early age. He took a place at the École Polytechnique (X 1961) and, upon finishing his...
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15.12.20
Two research awards for Mercedes Pelegrín García
Operational Research (OR) is the science of decision making, mathematical optimisation and modelling. It focuses on the optimal resolution of decision...