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Society

Wild birds as offerings to the Egyptian gods

Millions of ibis and birds of prey mummies, sacrificed to the Egyptian gods Horus, Ra or Thoth, have been discovered in the necropolises of the Nile…

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Earth

How much will polar ice sheets add to sea level rise?

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Space

The astrophysicist Françoise Combes awarded the CNRS 2020 Gold Medal

This year, the CNRS Gold Medal, one of France’s most prestigious scientific distinctions, has been awarded to the astrophysicist Françoise Combes. As…

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Space

First 3.2-billion pixel images: the CNRS participates in the construction of the world’s largest digital camera

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© N. Fischer, H. Pfeiffer, A. Buonanno (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics), Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes (SXS) Collaboration
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Space

New populations of black holes revealed by gravitational waves

The gravitational waveGravitational waves are ripples in space-time, predicted by Albert Einstein in his theory of general relativity in 1915 and…

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Corporate

Sophie Chevallon is named Director of the CNRS Communications Department

The CNRS Chairman and CEO Antoine Petit has named Sophie Chevallon as the organisation’s Director of the Communications Department effective 1…

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Earth

Earth may always have been wet

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Earth

The Le Teil earthquake provides new insights on seismic risk in France and Western Europe

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Life
Health

The behaviour of therapeutic antibodies in immunotherapy

Since the late 1990s, immunotherapy has been the frontline treatment against lymphomas where synthetic antibodies are used to stop the proliferation…

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Society

Cremation in the Middle-East dates as far back as 7,000 B.C.

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