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24 July 2018

Awards and Distinctions, Institute Life, Press, Research

Xavier Mangenot receives the 2018 Van Straelen thesis prize from SGF

13 July 2018

Press, Research

Predominant role of purple bacteria in stromatolite formation in Lake Dziani Dzaha, Mayotte

Using a combination of micro-imaging and microbial ecology techniques, a multi-disciplinary team (1) has highlighted the predominant role played by ph...

16 May 2018

Press, Research

What's happening in Titan's equatorial belt?

Over the last thirteen years (2004 - 2017), the Cassini-Huygens mission has brought about a real revolution in the exploration of Titan, Saturn's larg...

15 May 2018

General public, Press, Research

The crustal structure and kinematics of the Central Andes revisited

Since the advent of plate tectonics, a distinction has been made between mountain ranges formed by the collision of continental blocks, the typical ex...

05 May 2018

Events, Observatories, Press

InSight launch

At 4:05 am (Pacific time) on Saturday May 5, the Atlas V rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, sending the InSight probe to Ma...

03 May 2018

Events, Observatories, Press

InSight press conference

Two days before the launch of the InSight mission, NASA organised a major press conference at the Vandenberg military base. Scientists and managers fr...

02 May 2018

General public, Press, Research

A giant planetary embryo revealed by inclusions in meteorite diamonds

A study by EPFL researchers, in partnership with IPGP, BGI and IUEM, of diamond samples found in a ureilite-type meteorite shows that their formation ...

30 April 2018

Press, Research

How can the origin of lead from multiple sources be determined? A new statistical approach.

Determining the origin of terrestrial materials is a major scientific issue that concerns a wide range of disciplines. It is an issue for geochemists ...

28 April 2018

Press, Research

Earthquake deficit and seismic hazard along the Levant Fault

Researchers from the Institut de Physique du Globe in Paris, in collaboration with scientists from Jordan's Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources a...

26 April 2018

General public, Press, Research

The study of Martian dunes to help better model the global climate circulation of Mars

Dune systems provide unique information about wind regimes on the surface of planetary bodies where there are no direct meteorological data as on Eart...

18 April 2018

Press, Research

Gravimetric satellite data highlight deep deformations prior to the 2011 Tohoku earthquake

Giant earthquakes, such as the one off the coast of Tohoku, Japan, in 2011, are an extreme manifestation of plate tectonics. They most often occur in ...

15 March 2018

Awards and Distinctions, Institute Life, Press, Research

Jérôme Gaillardet silver medal and Sébastien de Raucourt CNRS crystal medal 2018

On March 15th 2018, the CNRS awarded its Talents 2018. The silver, bronze and crystal medals are awarded each year to researchers, engineers, technici...

21 February 2018

General public, Press, Research

Seismic ruptures and slow earthquakes in subduction zones

In a study recently published in the journal Science Advances, a team of French and Ecuadorian researchers have highlighted the relationships between ...

26 January 2018

General public, Press, Research

Find out the magnitude of earthquakes by observing the atmosphere!

A study, published in the journal Nature - Scientific Reports on January 24th 2018, and signed by Giovanni Occhipinti (from the Planetology and Space ...

22 January 2018

Press, Research

The impactor that struck the Earth to create the Moon was no bigger than Mars

It was in the mid-1970s that astronomers proposed the current theory of the Moon's formation: our satellite was created by a giant collision between t...