News

04 December 2020

General public, Observatories, Press, Research

OVSM-IPGP recommends Mount Pelée to be placed under yellow volcanic watch

On Thursday December 3rd, the Martinique Volcanological and Seismological Observatory of the IPGP (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, CNRS) sent ...

26 November 2020

Press, Research

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...

18 November 2020

Awards and Distinctions, Institute Life, Press, Research

Kurama Okubo receives the 2020 CNFGG Geophysics Thesis Prize

Since 1989, the CNFGG has awarded an annual prize for a thesis in geophysics to one or more young researchers who have submitted outstanding theses in...

31 October 2020

Awards and Distinctions, Institute Life, Press, Research

Manon Bickert wins the Geological Society of France's 2020 thesis prize

Each year, the Société Géologique de France awards two thesis prizes to students who have distinguished themselves by the quality of their doctoral wo...

30 October 2020

Press, Research

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...

29 October 2020

Observatories, Press, Research

First assessment of the Mayobs15 campaign to monitor the activity of the Mayotte volcano

In order to better understand and observe the seismo-volcanic phenomenon that has been affecting Mayotte since May 2018, a new oceanographic campaign ...

15 October 2020

Observatories, Press, Research

Real-time imaging of a volcano's internal plumbing to better anticipate eruptions

Researchers at IPGP and their international colleagues have developed a new operational method for monitoring volcanoes: using GPS measurements to tra...

14 October 2020

Press, Research

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...

13 October 2020

Observatories, Press, Research

New campaign at sea to monitor the evolution of the Mayotte volcano

The MAYOBS15 mission, which will take place on board the Marion Dufresne from October 1 to 26, 2020, aims to maintain instruments and monitor seismo-v...

09 October 2020

Awards and Distinctions, Institute Life, Press, Research

Jordane Corbeau and Léa Bonnefoy win the L'Oréal - UNESCO "For Women in Science" Young Talent Award 2020

29 September 2020

Press, Research

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...