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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...

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...