CAGE Team News

16 March 2021

Press, Research

Meteorite reveals oldest known planetary crust

A team of researchers from the Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer in Brest (CNRS, Université de Bretagne-Occidentale), the Institut de Physique...

26 November 2020

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Earth's primitive atmosphere, a Venusian hell

In an article published in the journal Science Advances, a team of international researchers reveal that the Earth's primitive atmosphere must have be...

24 November 2020

Awards and Distinctions, Institute Life, Press, Research

Philippe Lognonné and Frédéric Moynier, winners of the Prix de l'Académie des sciences 2020

On Tuesday 24 November, the Académie des Sciences announced the names of the 68 winners of the 65 prizes it awarded in 2020. This year, two of the Aca...

30 October 2020

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A meteorite reveals a warm climate on Mars 4.4 billion years ago

In a study conducted by IPGP, CNRS and Université de Paris, and published on October 30, 2020 in Science Advances, an international scientific team ha...

14 October 2020

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Alzheimer's disease: cosmochemistry for the benefit of the brain

By applying tools developed for the study of planet formation to the brains of Alzheimer's patients, scientists at the Paris Institute of Earth Physic...

29 September 2020

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First results from CHEOPS reveal an exoplanet with extreme conditions

The CHEOPS space telescope is living up to its promise: its first observations reveal the face of the exoplanet WASP-189b - a planet where extreme con...

03 September 2020

General public, Press, Research

Lead fallout from Notre Dame fire mapped in honey

In a study published this summer, a team of Canadian and French researchers studied honeys from beehives in the Paris region to trace lead pollution l...

04 June 2020

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Subduction of marine carbonates at the origin of carbonatitic magmatism for over 3 billion years

Scientists at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (University of Paris, IPGP, CNRS) have for the first time demonstrated the link between the s...

20 April 2020

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A new isotope effect opens up unexpected clues to the formation of the Solar System

Researchers from CNRS, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris, University of Manchester, Université Paris XIII, Sorbonne Université and Institu...

12 December 2019

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Meteorites reveal the early history of the Solar System

Over the past few months, a team of researchers from the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Université de Paris, CNRS and Muséum National d'Histo...

12 November 2019

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The first solar system solids created in less than a week

A team of researchers from the Centre de recherches pétrographiques et géochimiques (CRPG/CNRS/Université de Lorraine), the Institut de minéralogie, d...

04 October 2019

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Not so young, Saturn's rings

Did Saturn's rings only appear during the age of the dinosaurs? The announcement came as a (media) bombshell at the end of the Cassini mission, which ...