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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
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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
13 April 2016
Press, Research
A better understanding of climate and the workings of major subduction faults thanks to corals
Coral microatolls are massive corals living in the intertidal zone (area within the tidal range). Already studied in the Pacific and Indian oceans, t...
09 March 2016
Awards and Distinctions, Institute Life, Press, Research
Elvira Astafyeva receives the 2016 CNRS bronze medal
The Bronze Medal rewards a researcher's first work, which establishes him or her as a talented specialist in his or her field. This award represents e...
02 March 2016
General public, Press, Research
Cosmic dust flux variation measured on the ocean floor!
The Earth is constantly bombarded by "interplanetary dust" (cosmic particles from comet tails, asteroid collisions...).
