The gigantic respiration of crystalline solids
Chemists from CNRS and the Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines(1) have discovered a new family of solids capable of a threefold increase in volume when they absorb liquids. Previously,...
View ArticleLHC: The french contribution to the construction of the world's largest...
The last quadripolar magnet was brought down into the tunnel of the world's largest particle accelerator; the CERN's(1) LHC, or Large Hadron Collidor. This magnet is part of a series of 392 units which...
View ArticleA step nearer to understanding high temperature superconductivity
Transporting energy without any loss, travelling in magnetically levitated trains, carrying out medical imaging (MRI) with small-scale equipment: all these things could come true if we had...
View ArticleJean Iliopoulos, particle physicist - Dirac medal winner for 2007
The 2007 Dirac Medal, one of the most prestigious awards in theoretical physics and mathematics, will be awarded on August 8th to two well-known physicists: Jean Iliopoulos, Emeritus Senior Researcher...
View ArticleComputing grids, creation of the "Institut des Grilles"
CNRS has just created the « Institut des Grilles » (Grids Institute ). This new institute federates all its actions concerning computing grids, distributed computing systems offering to the users an...
View ArticleOpen access to high energies
The CNRS Institut de physique nucléaire et de physique des particules (IN2P3) has just signed an agreement with the Journal of High Energy Physics stating that the articles written by its researchers...
View ArticleLHC : The final pieces of the world's biggest jigsaw puzzle are slotted into...
The final major component of Atlas, the world's largest multipurpose particle detector, was lowered this afternoon into the purpose-built cavern 100 meters below ground around one of the proton...
View ArticleCreation of an optics and extreme vision Scientific Interest Group
On the 7 March 2008, IN2P3(1) /CNRS, Sagem Défense Sécurité (SAFRAN Group), the Université Claude-Bernard in Lyon and the Université Louis-Pasteur in Strasbourg signed an agreement to set up an optics...
View ArticleAgeing of alloys: a mayonnaise that separates more quickly than expected
Why do certain electronic components undergo spontaneous, irreversible breakdown? Why do certain mechanical parts, without any apparent wear, suffer failure? An initial, empirical answer to such...
View ArticleVintage wine bottles authenticated by high energy ion beam
Arcane(1), the technological transfer unit at the Centre d'études nucléaires in Bordeaux Gradignan (CNRS-IN2P3(2)/University of Bordeaux 1) has signed an exclusive cooperation agreement with The...
View ArticleThe Fermi telescope discovers the most violent explosion ever observed in the...
The most violent gamma-ray burst ever observed has been detected by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The total energy released, the ejection velocity of the explosion and the extremely high energy...
View ArticleComets prisoners of the asteroid belt
Most of the primitive bodies that make up the asteroid belt, between Jupiter and Mars, are in fact probably comets. The discovery was made by an international team made up of researchers from the...
View ArticleEncounter with the mysteries of the Universe
From 21 October to 1 November 2009, CNRS will put on an exhibit, Les mystères de l'Univers, in collaboration with Mairie de Paris, CNES, CEA and the ESA. The event, open to the public and free, will be...
View ArticleHadrontherapy, a treatment for X-ray resistant cancers
CNRS and ARCHADE (1) have joined forces in order to develop hadrontherapy. This new radiotherapy technique is already used in certain cases to treat patients whose tumors are resistant to conventional...
View ArticleJacques Martino appointed director of CNRS's IN2P3
Jacques Martino has been appointed director of CNRS's National Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics (IN2P3) by CNRS president Alain Fuchs. Dr. Martino had been director of the Subatech laboratory...
View ArticleCometary dust in Antarctica?
A new family of extraterrestrial particles, probably of cometary origin, has been identified for the first time in snow in Central Antarctica. Discovered by researchers from the Center for Nuclear...
View ArticleThe turbulent past of the Milky Way's black hole
The supermassive black hole at the center of our Galaxy went through turbulent times over the past centuries. This we know thanks to its surrounding molecular clouds, whose varying X-ray and gamma-ray...
View ArticleOPERA experiment: detection of a first candidate in the search for direct...
The OPERA(1) experiment at the Gran Sasso near Rome, in which CNRS/IN2P3(2) takes part, has probably detected the first tau-type neutrino. This neutrino could stem from the transformation, during its...
View ArticleHESS-II: a new camera for exploring the violent Universe
HESS, one of the world's best-performing ground-based gamma ray detectors, will soon boast a fifth telescope that will double its potential for making new discoveries. The telescope will be equipped...
View ArticlePRESS INVITATION ICHEP 2010 LHC and high energy physics: latest results and...
What are the latest results in the search for the Higgs boson? How are LHC experiments progressing? What are the first clues of the existence of dark matter? What is the latest on neutrinos? CNRS/IN2P3...
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