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16 June 2022

Press, Research

The mystery of Mediterranean low-salt gypsum deposits

Around six million years ago, at the end of the Miocene, the Mediterranean Sea underwent a period of rapid drying, gradually turning into a saline gia...

23 May 2022

Press, Research

Publication of the new international terrestrial reference system

Zuheir Altamini, head of the team that calculates and publishes the new ITRF benchmark, and a geodesy researcher at IGN and IPGP, talks about the impo...

22 May 2022

General public, Observatories, Press, Research

First magnitude 5 earthquake "heard" on Mars

A "Marsquake" with an estimated magnitude of 5 shook the Red Planet on the night of 04/05/2022. The French SEIS instrument, deployed on the ground by ...

11 May 2022

Press, Research

Towards a better understanding of the geodynamic driving force

The Earth's magnetic field is useful for life, enabling many animal and bacterial species to orient themselves in their environment. It is also capabl...

19 April 2022

Press, Research

Deep plate movements prior to a mega-earthquake detected in the Earth's gravity field

A study led by researchers from IPGP, IGN and Université Paris Cité, shows that deep mass redistributions can be observed prior to a subduction zone m...

24 February 2022

Press, Research

Organic carbon preferentially recycled in the deep Earth

An international team of researchers from CRPG, IPGP, Université de Paris and Durham University has shown that during subduction processes, organic ca...

10 February 2022

Awards and Distinctions, Observatories, Press, Research

WebObs software wins MESRI's first Open Science prize for open source software

The WebObs tool designed by the IPGP's volcanological and seismological observatories has been awarded an Open Science prize for free research softwar...

27 January 2022

Press, Research

Volcano Hunga Tonga, an unusual eruption

On January 15th, 2022, the eruption of the Hunga Tonga volcano in the Tonga archipelago in the Pacific Ocean created a volcanic plume several tens of ...

12 January 2022

Press, Research

Formation of the solar system's first small bodies in two separate rings

The formation of small solar system bodies, such as asteroids and planetesimals, remains a mystery. While there's general agreement that their formati...

06 January 2022

Press, Research

IPGP researchers search for nanoparticles on glaciers

In autumn 2021, two IPGP researchers will carry out a sampling mission on Alpine glaciers, with the aim of tracing the distribution and source of nano...

20 December 2021

Press, Research

The shape of rivers determined by the sediments they carry

In a study published in the journal PNAS, a team of geomorphologists from IPGP, CNRS, Université de Paris and Sorbonne University show that it is the ...

26 November 2021

Observatories, Press, Research

After 3 years on Mars, InSight has revealed the heart of the planet!

On November 26th, 2018, NASA's InSight mission landed on Mars. In the latest episode of the webseries "SEIS, a space adventure", scientists from the I...

26 November 2021

Press, Research

New magnetic image of a tectonically active planet

Using 70 years of data (airborne, satellite, field...), a French team (LMV, IPGP and LPG) has just published the most accurate global map to date of t...

10 November 2021

Awards and Distinctions, Institute Life, Press, Research

A. Mangeney and K. Chanard honored by EGU

The EGU (European Geosciences Union) awards two IPGP researchers among its 50 international prize and medal winners for 2022! Anne Mangeney, professor...

08 November 2021

Awards and Distinctions, Institute Life, Press, Research

Stephan Borensztajn and Caroline Thaler Public prize in the CNRS "La preuve par l'image" photo competition

Stephan Borensztajn and Caroline Thaler win the People's Choice Award in the "La preuve par l'image" competition for their photo entitled Le cri.