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Life
Matter

COVID-19: launch of an international survey on the loss of smell and taste

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Edmond Becquerel, Solar spectra, 1848, photochromatic images, Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône.
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Matter
Matter

Mystery solved! We finally understand the origin of the colours in the first colour photographs

A palette of colours on a silver plate: that is what the world’s first colour photograph looks like. It was taken by French physicist Edmond…

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Neurons in culture (nucleus in blue, cytoplasm in green) with the visualisation of quadruplexes by imumunodetection (in red).© Andrey S. Tsvetkov, McGovern Medical School at Houston, TX, USA
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Health

Unusual DNA structures involved in neuron ageing

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© Rommel Angeles/Museo de sitio Pachacamac
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Society
Matter
Environment

The colours of the Pachacamac idol, an Inca God, finally revealed

Researchers from the CNRS, Sorbonne Université, université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle and the Musée du Quai…

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© Alice Balfourier, laboratoire MSC (CNRS/université de Paris) et Christine Péchoux-Longin (plateforme MIMA2, INRA)
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Engineering
Matter

What happens to gold nanoparticles in cells?

Gold nanoparticles, which are supposed to be stable in biological environments, can be degraded inside cells. This research conducted by teams from…

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Matter
Space

First detection of very high energy gamma-ray bursts

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Engineering
Matter

Why is ice so slippery?

The answer lies in a film of water that is generated by friction, one that is far thinner than expected and much more viscous than usual water…

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© Xiaohong Chen, Département de chimie moléculaire (CNRS/Université Grenoble Alpes)
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Matter

Portable electronics: a stretchable and flexible biofuel cell that runs on sweat

A unique new flexible and stretchable device, worn against the skin and capable of producing electrical energy by transforming the compounds present…

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© Florent Houdellier, directeur du laboratoire commun HC-IUMi
Press
Matter

A new cutting-edge microscope inaugurated at the CEMES-CNRS

The Centre d'élaboration de matériaux et d'études structurales (CEMES) of the CNRS recently developed an innovative method to study the properties of…

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© Jean-François Lutz
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Matter

Secret messages hidden in light-sensitive polymers

Scientists from the CNRS and Aix-Marseille Université have recently shown how valuable light-sensitive macromolecules are: when exposed to the right…

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