Gravitational waves detected 100 years after Einstein's prediction
LIGO opens New Window on the Universe with Observation of Gravitational Waves from Colliding Black Holes. For the first time, scientists have observed ripples in the fabric of spacetime called...
View ArticleA source accelerating Galactic cosmic rays to unprecedented energy...
For more than ten years the H.E.S.S. observatory in Namibia, run by an international collaboration of 42 institutions in 12 countries, has been mapping the centre of our galaxy in very-high-energy...
View ArticleLISA Pathfinder exceeds expectations
Mission accomplished for the spacecraft after only two months of science operations. Not only were the technologies needed for the future gravitational wave space observatory validated, but the...
View ArticleGravitational waves spotted again
On 26 December 2015, scientists from the LIGO and Virgo collaborations received an unexpected Christmas gift when the Advanced LIGO detectors recorded a new gravitational wave signal, three months...
View ArticleFrance doubles its experimental capability in nuclear physics
The new SPIRAL2 particle accelerator at the French large heavy-ion accelerator GANIL (CNRS/CEA), inaugurated on November 3 in the presence of the French President François Hollande, will be able to...
View ArticleFacing terrorism: a year of mobilization at the CNRS
After the Paris and Nice attacks, the CNRS endeavored to commit research resources to the fight against terrorism. We take a look back on a year of action that included a call for projects with an...
View ArticleERC "Consolidator" Grants: the CNRS tops the EU institutions ranking
The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the results of its call for proposals for the "ERC Consolidator Grant 2016," which rewards researchers noted for their excellence and who have 7 to 12...
View ArticleThe CNRS celebrates the tenth anniversary of the ERC
Created in 2007, the European Research Council (ERC) awards individual research grants to talented researchers each year. The funding organization will celebrate its tenth anniversary on 13-19 March...
View ArticleEuropean XFEL: Europe's next-generation free-electron laser
The faster, more powerful European XFEL free-electron laser was inaugurated on September 1, 2017, near Hamburg, Germany. By producing ultra-bright, trillion-photon X-ray flashes at a frequency two...
View ArticleHighest-energy cosmic rays have extragalactic origin
A 50-year-old debate has at last been settled: the highest-energy cosmic rays do not originate in our own Galaxy but in galaxies located tens or even hundreds of millions of light years away. The...
View ArticleTwo CNRS 2017 Gold Medals awarded to physicists Alain Brillet and Thibault...
In 2017, the CNRS has awarded two Gold Medals, to the physicists Alain Brillet and Thibault Damour for their major contributions to the detection of gravitational waves, first announced on 11 February...
View ArticleGravitational waves: first joint LIGO-Virgo detection
Scientists in the LIGO and Virgo collaborations have achieved the first ever three-detector observation of the gravitational waves emitted by the merger of two black holes. This is the first signal...
View ArticleThe CNRS congratulates Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne,...
The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to the physicists Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne for the detection of gravitational waves, predicted by Albert Einstein in 1916 in his...
View ArticleNew developments in gravitational astronomy
Press conference (French only) Monday 16 October 2017 at 4 p.m. At the CNRS headquarters - 3 rue Michel-Ange Paris 16e
View ArticleGravitational waves shed first light on mergers of neutron stars
This is a major breakthrough in more than one respect. The scientists of the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration (which includes the CNRS) have for the first time observed the gravitational waves emitted by the...
View ArticleAnne Peyroche named interim president of CNRS
Anne Peyroche today assumed the role of interim president of the CNRS. She has taken over from Alain Fuchs, who held the position since 2010. (Fuchs is the new president of Paris Sciences &...
View ArticleNew early signals to quantify the magnitude of strong earthquakes
After an earthquake, there is a disturbance in the field of gravity almost instantaneously. This could be recorded before the seismic waves that seismologists usually analyze. In a study published in...
View ArticleAntoine Petit named Chairman and CEO of the CNRS
Antoine Petit has been named Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the CNRS. His appointment was confirmed on January 24, 2018, by French president Emmanuel Macron upon the recommendation of...
View ArticleMomentum: CNRS issues second call for proposals from young male and female...
The CNRS is issuing its second Momentum call for proposals from young male and female researchers around the world, to support their projects in emerging and innovative areas. Researchers in all fields...
View ArticleERC Advanced Grants: CNRS in the lead among European institutions
The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the recipients of its 2017 Advanced Grants, awarded to experienced male and female researchers well known in their fields. In total, across all...
View ArticleThe largest catalog ever published of very high energy gamma ray sources in...
The HESS international collaboration, to which CNRS and CEA contribute, has published the results of fifteen years of gamma ray observations of the Milky Way. Its telescopes installed in Namibia have...
View ArticleWithin 10 years, a high-luminosity LHC at CERN
A new site opened on Friday, June 15, 2018, at the LHC, the Large Hadron Collider. Begun in 2011, this project aims to commission a high-luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) by 2026 that will increase the number of...
View ArticleCNRS to play major part in ESOF 2018
Toulouse is to host the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF), Europe's largest interdisciplinary gathering on science and innovation, from 9 to 14 July 2018. In parallel with this event for researchers, the...
View ArticlePlanck: final data from the mission lends strong support to the standard...
In 2013, ESA's Planck mission unveiled a new image of the cosmos: an all-sky survey of the microwave radiation produced at the beginning of the Universe. This first light emitted by the Universe...
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