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Homo luzonensis a new human species contemporaneous with Homo sapiens discovered in the Philippines
An international multidisciplinary team involving MNHN and CNRS, co-led by a MNHN senior lecturer of the H & E department, Florent Détroit,…
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First ever image of a black hole: a CNRS researcher had simulated it as early as 1979
The first real image of a black hole, obtained by the international network of EHT telescopes and published on April 10, 2019 in Astrophysical…
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Astronomers successfully obtain first ever image of a black hole
The very first image of a black hole has been obtained by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a network of eight radio telescopes on four different…
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It is not necessary to understand a technology in order to improve it!
Are the technologies produced by human civilisations the result of our intellectual abilities or our capacity for imitation? According to an…
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ERC grants: over 500 CNRS projects selected for funding!
On Thursday 28 March 2019, the European Research Council (ERC) awarded Advanced Grants to 222 researchers to finance exploratory research projects…
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The first complete mapping of cerebral functional lateralisation
Some cerebral processes preferably occur in the brain’s right or left hemisphere. But which functions and which side? A Franco-Italian research team…
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French scientists offer strong contribution to coordinated international effort to better understand the climate system through computer simulations
Climate scientists employed at Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL), Centre national de recherches météorologiques (CNRM, Météo-France/CNRS) and at …
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