News

30 March 2017

General public, Press, Research

Publication of the book "Why does the Earth quake?"

Understand, fear and admire one of nature's most spectacular phenomena.

29 March 2017

Press, Research

Publication of the book "From glass to crystal - Nucleation, growth and demixing, from research to applications"

Glass-ceramics are materials that are increasingly used in our daily lives, despite having been known for less than a century. This book provides a th...

28 March 2017

Press, Research

Using zinc isotopes to trace Alzheimer's disease

Two Sorbonne Paris Cité University researchers, Frédéric Moynier, from the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, and Marie Le Borgne, from the Vascu...

24 March 2017

Press, Research

What if the first bacteria weren't the ones we thought?

A growing number of studies tend to show that colonies of bacteria live in the first few hundred meters or even kilometers beneath the surface of the ...

23 March 2017

Awards and Distinctions, Institute Life, Press, Research

Sandrine Péron winner of the L'Oréal - UNESCO "For Women in Science" award 2017

The L'Oréal Foundation, in partnership with the French Academy of Sciences and the French National Commission for UNESCO, has been involved for 10 yea...

17 March 2017

Research

Solar wind settling on early dust, a source of volatile elements for the Earth

The origin of volatile elements such as water, carbon and nitrogen on telluric planets is still widely debated. Due to their inert nature, noble gases...

14 March 2017

Observatories, Press, Research

Subsaintes 2017 campaign - Underwater earthquake traces

From April 2nd to 24th, 2017, around 20 international scientists embarked from Pointe-à-Pitre aboard IFREMER's oceanographic vessel, Atalante, to stud...

28 February 2017

Press, Research

Towards a better understanding of paleoclimates in the sedimentary archive

Calcite microfossils preserved in sediments are widely used to reconstruct the Earth's past oceanographic conditions and climates. By analyzing their ...

15 February 2017

Research

Magofond 4 campaign - southern flank, Rijser-Larsen Sea, Antarctic Plate

The Magofond 4 campaign focuses on the Earth's magnetic field over a particular period of almost 40 million years, during which the field did not reve...

09 February 2017

Press, Research

First signs of a vital bacterial effect on carbonate oxygen isotopes

A multidisciplinary approach led by two teams at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris has demonstrated that a bacterium present in the soil indu...

08 February 2017

Press, Research

What the first nuclear explosion tells us about the Moon's formation

During the first nuclear explosion on July 16, 1945, at the Trinity test site in New Mexico, USA (the "test" that later led to the atomic explosions a...

09 January 2017

Research

Ecuador subduction " supercyclic " behavior highlighted after the Pedernales earthquake of April 16th, 2016

The Pedernales earthquake (magnitude 7.8) violently struck Ecuador's central coast on April 16, 2016, causing nearly 700 casualties and more than 16,0...