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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...

17 September 2020

Press, Research

Experimental testing of processes controlling the structuring of major continental rifts

Assessing the seismic hazard in continental strike-slip zones (faults that are usually vertical and along which two blocks slide horizontally in relat...

17 September 2020

Press, Research

A new numerical approach to the study of liquid methane river valleys on Titan

The Cassini-Huygens mission, which came to an end on September 15th, 2017 after a 20-year voyage, made many discoveries about Saturn, its famous rings...

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...

03 August 2020

Press, Research

Redox issue of the journal Elements, coordinated by IPGP researchers

The scientific journal Elements, published for 15 years by 17 learned societies mainly in mineralogy, petrology and geochemistry, publishes 6 thematic...

24 July 2020

General public, Observatories, Press, Research

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a period of silence in anthropogenic seismic noise worldwide

A study published in the journal Science by a group of international seismologists, including two scientists from the Institut de Physique du Globe de...

10 July 2020

Press, Research

A better anticipation of tsunamis thanks to GPS satellites

In a study published on July 6th in Nature - Scientific Reports, a team of researchers from the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (University of ...

07 July 2020

Press, Research

A Plate Boundary Emerges Between India and Australia

Bathymetric and seismic data point to a new plate boundary in a fracture-riddled zone beneath the northern Indian Ocean.

03 July 2020

Press, Research

First in situ observations of metal biomineralization mechanisms at the bacterial cell level

Scientists from the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris and the Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques laboratory (University of Paris, CNRS), in colla...

03 July 2020

Press, Research

Paroxysmal volcanic eruptions predicted by temporal variations in helium isotopes

Primordial helium-3 (3He) enrichment is regularly detected in volcanic fluids, but its temporal variability and link with volcanic activity are still ...

22 June 2020

Awards and Distinctions, Institute Life, Press, Research

Audrey Michaud-Dubuy receives the CCR Cat Nat 2020 thesis prize

Audrey Michaud-Dubuy receives the CCR Cat Nat 2020 prize for her thesis entitled: Dynamique des éruptions pliniennes : réévaluation de l'aléa volcaniq...