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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...

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 ...

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...

06 December 2016

Press, Research

IPGP post-seismic interventions in Italy following the Amatrice and Norcia earthquakes

On October 30th, 2016, central Italy was shaken by a magnitude 6.6 earthquake in the Norcia region, a few kilometers north of the epicenter of the mag...

24 November 2016

Press, Research

Detection of a gravity signal before the arrival of seismic waves

The Earth's gravitational field is not uniform over the surface of the globe, but depends on the masses (thickness and density in particular) of the v...

20 November 2016

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Archaean microfossils lived in oceans at over 40°C

A wealth of evidence suggests that life on Earth first appeared over 3 billion years ago. However, reconstructing the conditions on the earth's surfac...

14 November 2016

Press, Research

Most of the platinum in the Earth's mantle was brought by meteorites after the formation of the core

By analyzing, for the first time, the natural isotopic composition of platinum in meteorites as well as in ancient (over 3.85 billion years old) and m...

07 September 2016

Awards and Distinctions, Institute Life, Press, Research

Daniel R. Neuville becomes President of the European Society of Glass Science and Technology (ESGT)

04 July 2016

General public, Press, Research

Understanding the formation of Mars' satellites

Sébastien Charnoz, Professor at Paris Diderot University and researcher at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, and an international team publi...

01 July 2016

Press, Research

What if chondrules were formed during collisions between planetesimals?

The origin of chondrules, one of the major constituents of primitive meteorites, remains hotly debated to this day. The discovery of magnetites of mag...

06 May 2016

Press, Research

A unique iron isotope anomaly to identify fossil magnetotactic bacteria