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08 January 2021

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A new geochemical scenario for conditions conducive to the appearance of life on Earth

A European study involving a CNRS researcher at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, published at the end of December 2020, proposes a new inte...

10 December 2020

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First description of the microbial communities of the Old City alkaline hydrothermal site, South-West Indian Ridge

A study led by IPGP scientists describes for the first time the microbial communities of the Old City alkaline hydrothermal site (southwestern Indian ...

26 November 2020

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Earth's primitive atmosphere, a Venusian hell

In an article published in the journal Science Advances, a team of international researchers reveal that the Earth's primitive atmosphere must have be...

30 October 2020

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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...

14 October 2020

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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...

29 September 2020

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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

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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 July 2020

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First in situ observations of metal biomineralization mechanisms at the bacterial cell level

Scientists from the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris and the Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques laboratory (University of Paris, CNRS), in colla...

04 June 2020

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Subduction of marine carbonates at the origin of carbonatitic magmatism for over 3 billion years

Scientists at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (University of Paris, IPGP, CNRS) have for the first time demonstrated the link between the s...

20 April 2020

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A new isotope effect opens up unexpected clues to the formation of the Solar System

Researchers from CNRS, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris, University of Manchester, Université Paris XIII, Sorbonne Université and Institu...

12 December 2019

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Meteorites reveal the early history of the Solar System

Over the past few months, a team of researchers from the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Université de Paris, CNRS and Muséum National d'Histo...

02 December 2019

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Xenon trapped in rock provides insight into the evolution of life

Researchers at CRPG (CNRS/ Université de Lorraine) and IPGP have carried out a study highlighting intense outgassing around 2.5 billion years ago, whi...