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04 July 2026

Events, Meetings & Conferences, Research

SOUFRIÈRE_50 – 50 years of scientific advances on volcanoes for a more resilient future

Few days before the opening of the international conference SOUFRIÈRE_50 – 50 years of scientific advances on volcanoes for a more resilient future, t...

29 June 2026

Research

Wildfires: nanoparticles reveal combustion conditions

A study conducted by researchers at the Institut de physique du globe de Paris (IPGP) and Université Paris Cité, in collaboration with Memorial Univer...

25 June 2026

Research

Radio ‘whistlers’ originating from lightning strikes reveal unprecedented behaviour above the magnetic equator

A team from the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP – Université Paris Cité / CNRS) has, for the first time, documented and explained the unu...

24 June 2026

Research

What can the light from Vesta’s avalanches tell us?

A study conducted at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris uses images from NASA’s Dawn mission and a Bayesian inversion of the Hapke photometric...

17 June 2026

Research

Cosmochemistry in the service of Alzheimer's disease diagnosis: copper reveals its isotopic secrets

A multidisciplinary study led by researchers at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), in collaboration with teams from the Faculty of Hea...

15 June 2026

Research

Are the hidden currents of Ganymede’s ocean finally detectable?

A study conducted by researchers from the Institut de physique du globe de Paris (IPGP) and CNRS shows that the convection motions driving the hidden ...

12 June 2026

Research

Discovery of CO₂ hydrates off the coast of Mayotte: a unique site for studying carbon storage in the ocean

More than 120 CO₂ hydrate deposits were discovered at the Fer à Cheval site, 10 km east of Petite Terre (Mayotte), during the Geoflamme campaign co-le...

11 June 2026

General public, Institute Life, Research

Publication of the IPGP 2025 Annual Report

The IPGP Annual Report, published in both French and English, aims to share with the widest possible audience our enthusiasm for the research carried ...

04 June 2026

Events, Meetings & Conferences, Research

SOUFRIÈRE_50: a week to revisit fifty years of scientific progress and meet the challenges of 21st-century volcanology

Press Release - Fifty years after the 1976–1977 eruption of La Soufrière de Guadeloupe—an event that left a profound mark on Guadeloupe, as well as on...

02 June 2026

Research

QVCT Week is back at the IPGP from 15 to 19 June 2026!

For the second year running, Quality of Life and Working Conditions Week (QVCT) is back at the IPGP. It’s an opportunity to strengthen bonds between c...

08 May 2026

Events, Research

Jean-Philippe Avouac featured at the U.S. National Academy of Sciences annual meeting

Jean-Philippe Avouac, Director of the Institut de physique du globe de Paris (IPGP) and Professor at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech),...

06 May 2026

Research

Non-biological organic carbon recycled in Earth’s depths

A study published in Nature Communications, involving teams from the Institut de physique du globe de Paris, reveals a major and previously underestim...