“Knowledge of Deep Carbon Makes a Giant Leap”
This year, the Deep Carbon Observatory will be ten years old. Geologist Isabelle Daniel, a member of the coordinating team, reviews this act
Romancing the Phantom Particle
The international Xenon project is the most sensitive experiment in the world devoted to hunting WIMPs. Buried under the Italian Gran Sasso
The Dance Performance of Fish schools
Thanks to the development of new tracking techniques and behavioural data analysis, scientists have managed to reconstruct and model the soc
Artificial Neurones Go Nanometric
A team of scientists has developed an artificial nanoneuron that mimics the behaviour of a brain neuron. Trained to recognise numbers spoken
Proxima Centauri, a Trinary Star System
The sun’s closest neighbour, Proxima Centauri is not a lone star. A century after its discovery, our team has just demonstrated that this re
From Numerical Simulation to the First Telescopic Image
Astronomical observations are about to deliver the very first telescopic image of a giant black hole. The mass of data collected in one nigh
“There’s Nothing Like an Observation that Confirms Einstein’s Ideas!”
Barry Barish played a key role in detecting gravitational waves, mobilising the scientific community in the international Ligo project, whic
The Resistance of Insulators
Some materials are insulators on the inside, but conductors at the extremities. These surprising properties are due to the topological chara
“China's quantum-secured internet will combine satellites and fiber optics”
In only fifteen years, China has come to the forefront in quantum information technologies. A motion marked this year with the first functio
“Several Models Exist to Describe the Primordial Universe”
Shaking the world of cosmology is a debate between the proponents of cosmic inflation, in the large majority, and a handful of physicists th
