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A miniature gas sensor based on carbon nanotubes
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24.02.21
A miniature gas sensor based on carbon nanotubes
Image Credits : Salomé Forel "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom": In a founding speech for nanotechnology, physicist Richard Feynman encouraged...
The blockchain promises are more relevant than the Bitcoin frenzy - Julien Prat, Research Director (CNRS), Crest
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23.02.21
The blockchain promises are more relevant than the Bitcoin frenzy - Julien Prat, Research Director (CNRS), Crest
The price of bitcoin has experienced a new surge exceeding 50,000 dollars after the car manufacturer Tesla and its founder Elon Musk declared their...
Discovery of a stellar graveyard
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23.02.21
Discovery of a stellar graveyard
Credits : Nasa/Hubble Globular clusters are extremely dense stellar systems in which the stars are very close together. Eduardo Vitral (X2015) and...
A nuclear safety issue: Modeling corium fusion
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16.02.21
A nuclear safety issue: Modeling corium fusion
While severe accidents are extremely rare in nuclear power plants, it is nonetheless vital to be able to prevent them and, if they do occur, to manage...
Understanding space in laboratory
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12.02.21
Understanding space in laboratory
Their dimensions and distances make most astrophysical phenomena inaccessible to experimentation. To better understand them, researchers use...
Salt caverns to store hydrogen?
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27.01.21
Salt caverns to store hydrogen?
Deep underground, France hides deposits of crystallized salts over a large part of its territory. In total, more than 20,000km² of salt, hundreds of...
A MOOC on the challenges of renewable energies for the power grid
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27.01.21
A MOOC on the challenges of renewable energies for the power grid
Variable renewable energies such as wind and solar power are expected to become the main contributors to the world's power systems as a large number...
2021, A New Space Odyssey
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25.01.21
2021, A New Space Odyssey
Space missions will accelerate in 2021, pushing back the limits of this new frontier and our knowledge of the cosmos, but potentially opening up a new...
2021, A New Space Odyssey – Chronology
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25.01.21
2021, A New Space Odyssey – Chronology
You will find elow a chronology of space missions in 2021. In space exploration, even more than in other journeys, shedules are subject to change....
The first laser pixels
Research
21.01.21
The first laser pixels
Based on an idea given by Gérard Mourou, Professor Emeritus of the Ecole Polytechnique and recipient of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics, the XCAN...
What looks alike comes together: the origin of actine's branching networks
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21.01.21
What looks alike comes together: the origin of actine's branching networks
The role of the actin filaments as the skeleton of the cell is very well identified, but its implementation has so far been unclear. It is the veil of...
New experiments at CERN
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05.01.21
New experiments at CERN
© 2020 CERN, Noemi Caraban Gonzalez Heavy ion physics is a fundamental area of physics explored by two teams at the Leprince Ringuet Laboratory (LLR*)...