At the Musée de l’Homme anthropology museum in Paris, an exhibition traces the movements of Homo sapiens across the long history of humanity. To address this complex topic, often the subject of fancif...

The metabolism of astronauts, the behaviour of plants, the reactions of living beings to radiation and of foams to weightlessness… The International Space Station does not only observe Space, as evide...

Appel à projets : ECOS Nord est un instrument qui relève conjointement du Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires Étrangères et du Ministère de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche. Il vise à renforcer le développement de projets de recherche scientifique d’excellence et à créer des réseaux de chercheurs binationaux avec quatre des pays du nord de l’Amérique latine (Colombie, Mexique, Pérou, Venezuela).

How to measure the dislocation of ice floes, the immense expanses of ice floating in polar seas? Easy! Create a model of the ice pack, find the best way to shake it, and watch as it breaks under the e...

Over the past few months, our planet has been ìmpacted by intense solar flare activity on the Sun. This phenomenon, which caused the polar auroras that recently lit up European skies, could also disru...

The actress Hedy Lamarr died 25 years ago. A brilliant inventor, she devised a system for encoding data transmissions that became widely used in telecommunications. But for decades, history has rememb...

White dwarfs are the extremely dense, compact remnants of stars that have ended their lives, and are at the origin of tremendous explosions known as novae. This phenomenon (not to be confused with sup...