By combining theoretical abstraction with practical impact, Stéphane Mallat has left a lasting mark on mathematics and computer science. From the JPEG 2000 image compression standard to the mathematic...

The European Research Area is both structuring, invisible and shaping the circulation of ideas and talent, with the CNRS playing a key role.

A recognised physicist for her work on quantum boxes, Pascale Senellart conducts her research at the joint research laboratory between the Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and the start-up that she co-founded. Her sights are set on photon-based quantum technologies.

Researchers have shown that dogs had a place in the first agricultural societies of Central and South America more than 5,000 years ago. But the arrival of European settlers brought about a drastic change. The only native American dogs remaining today are… Chihuahuas!

The CNRS has produced a guide to public speaking to help scientists who wish to do so.

The national consultation carried out by the CNRS on the Make.org platform reveals the priorities of the French people.

Between the 1950s and 1990s, some 200,000 barrels of radioactive waste were dumped by European nations into the North East Atlantic. After several years of preparation, a scientific mission set sail on 15 June to assess the condition of the barrels today and their effects on surrounding ecosystems.

Sign languages are languages like any other. A new platform called Sign-Hub documents their diversity around the world and shows the importance of learning them at an early age, as with any oral language.

On 14 May, 2025, the Musée de la Musique in Paris unveiled a completely new presentation of the 9,000 items in its collections, highlighting the connections among the musical traditions of different cultures. After all, from the violin to the piano to the oud, no instrument has ever evolved in a vacuum.

Half a billion years ago, plants, until then exclusively aquatic, set out to colonise the land. This transition transformed the Earth and its atmosphere, paving the way for terrestrial vertebrates. Researchers have been hard at work piecing together the scenario of this revolution.

Since 1928, the Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris has been home to more than 600 mathematical models. Designed in the late 19th century for teaching purposes, they also inspired the Surrealists. Now digitised, the collection, one of the world’s largest, is partly on exhibit at the Institute’s Maison Poincaré museum.

In the contaminated area around Fukushima, Japan, scientists are studying the impact of radioactivity on the cognitive abilities of pollinating insects such as honeybees and giant hornets.

The first mapping of mitochondria in the brain has just been revealed. This is yet another step towards understanding these structures which supply their energy to brain cells and are involved in a variety of illnesses, including mitochondrial diseases whose diagnosis has been possible for the past ten years or so.

Mycoses resistant to antifungal drugs are on the increase. Not least because treatments against pathogenic fungi are used in agriculture as well as in human and animal health.

In "Mickey 17", the latest film by the South Korean director Bong Joon-ho, the main character is recruited as an “Expendable” as part of a mission to colonise an exoplanet. Each time he dies, his memories are reloaded into a new body. Can this technique actually become a reality?

Prehistoric sites across France, such as the famous Chauvet Cave or L’Ile d’Yeu, are being closely monitored so as to understand how they are being endangered by climate change, and avoid the disappearance of rock paintings.

Why does a rose smell like a rose? Scientists have analysed the chemical composition of floral odours, whose volatile compounds serve not only to attract but also to repel.

With the environmental and health consequences of plastic use currently being better assessed and studied, a number of research laboratorie

Public action has many links with knowledge provided by the humanities and social sciences.

The CNRS has launched six new interdisciplinary challenges to structure research communities to work on key questions, at a time of strateg

In an open letter published on March 12, Europe's leading science institutions, including the CNRS, join forces to call for a strong framework program for res

Conducted by CNRS researchers1 , an unprecedented study on the combined use of sunscreen and an insect repellent that is among the best selling in France during summer concludes that UV

Over the past few months, our planet has been ìmpacted by intense solar flare activity on the Sun. This phenomenon, which caused the polar auroras that recently lit up European skies, could also…

White dwarfs are the extremely dense, compact remnants of stars that have ended their lives, and are at the origin of tremendous explosions known as novae. This phenomenon (not to be confused with…

The lesser role accorded to women in scientific careers and as research objects has consequences that go further than science alone.

Scientists, decision-makers and artists redesigned the outlines of research intended to inform political and soc

The CNRS has been awarded a total of €1.4 billion since the 2007 launch of the European Research Council, making the organisation the ERC's biggest bene

A Nobel Prize is often the crowning moment for a researcher's career while a CNRS bronze medal can serve to launch such a career.

From February 6th to 11th 2025 France will be hosting the AI Action Summit which aims to e

The environmental transition has already begun in scientific practices and now research careers and professions are also starting the same

Ten years after the terrorist attack against Charlie Hebdo, the legal expert Thomas Hochmann points out the difficulty of regulating freedom of expression without veering into censorship, especially…

Forests cover a third of the world's land surface. Although they provide us with invaluable services, they are now under so much pressure that we are faced with our own contradictions between their…

Astronomical observatories can yield exceptional discoveries, but they are sometimes built with little regard for the environment and local people, sparking public opposition. The sociologist and…

The CNRS office in Nairobi opened on October 1st 2024 as did a new chapter for the CNRS in East Africa.

For nearly ten years, astronomers have been trying to demonstrate the existence of a massive object thought to be orbiting in the outer reaches of the Solar System. Although the hypothesis is widely…

Deep sea's riches is currently attracting all manner of covetousness, shadow fleets are trying to damage underwater infrastructures and the

By depriving them more or less temporarily of their sense of smell, the Covid-19 pandemic made thousands of people abruptly realise the importance of their olfactory system. Research is now trying to…

As the International Criminal Court considers a request to issue an arrest warrant against Israel’s prime minister and three Hamas officials for crimes against humanity, Raphaëlle Nollez-Goldbach, a…

Before going to school to learn how to read and write their language, children first manage to understand and then speak it. How are they able to do so, almost all of them spontaneously, without a…

Small or large, equipped with rotors or fixed wings, drones are gradually becoming part of daily life for CNRS scientists. They offer invaluable help, making it possible to see what was heretofore…

The fossils of this primate, which were discovered in the early 2000s and date back 7 million years, remain the subject of intense debate, notably as to whether they should be considered part of the…

Cities, landscapes, monuments, even human figures: the watercolours of the architect and archaeologist Jean-Claude Golvin are an invitation to immerse ourselves in the everyday life of Greek, Roman,…

The Year of Geosciences is the fruit of a partnership between the CNRS and the French Ministry of Education and

What do a wind turbine, an ocean swell, and a volcanic eruption have in common? All three emit infrasound, or sound whose frequency is below 20 hertz. These sound waves, which are wrongly considered…