Michel Talagrand is the winner of the 2024 Abel prize and a former CNRS research director at the Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu - Paris rive gauche (IMJ-PRG).

Entrance to the CNRS headquarters, with the 2023 logo.

The biological crisis at the end of the Cretaceous, 66 million years ago, affected marine and continental environments on a global scale.

When a fluid (e.g. coffee or paint) dries on a surface, microscopic solid particles are dispersed, creating singular patterns depending on the fluid. How can we explain the origin of these different morphologies?

The cells of a multicellular organism are genetically homogeneous. Nevertheless, the functions, structures and behaviors of these cells vary. Many of these differences are due to distinct gene expression programs.

Permafrost molards are cones of loose debris associated with landslides. In the laboratory, they are formed by the degradation of ice-cemented blocks of rock material at ambient temperature.

Isabelle Cantat's work focuses on small-scale free-surface hydrodynamic flows in the presence of surfactants (in other words, drops, bubbles, soap films) and, on a larger scale, liquid foams.

Scientists in the "Immunologie, immunopathologie et chimie thérapeutique" (I2CT) laboratory are interested in the interactions between the cells of the immune system and those present in their environment.

Plasma, an energetic state of matter, opens the way to safer, more efficient and environmentally-friendly industrial chemical processes.

In autumn 2023, scientists travelled to different regions of Brazil in preparation for "Atlas do Brasil" (Editions Edusp). They focused on the subject of water: flooding in Paraty, the increase in the flow of the Iguaçu Falls and the drop in the level of the Amazon.

Scientists at the Institut de neurosciences cognitives et intégratives d'Aquitaine study motor skills from every angle, from biomechanics to neuroscience and electrophysiology.

At the interface of biology, chemistry and environmental sciences, she focuses on marine biomass, in particular algae and microorganisms.

This pharmacobiologist specializes in skin healing and regeneration, offering solutions for post-surgical healing, chronic wound treatment and anti-aging.

The research carried out by this expert in data compression should result in a reliable, automated and operational synthetic DNA memory system by the 2030s.

In the "Equipes traitement de l'information et systèmes" (ETIS) laboratory, the humanoid robot Neachy is used to study autonomous and social behaviors in an interdisciplinary context involving neuroscience and robotics.

NOEMA is the most powerful millimetric radio telescope in the northern hemisphere. Perched on the Plateau de Bure, in the Hautes-Alpes region of France, it comprises 12 mobile parabolic antennas, each 15 metres in diameter.

With climate change and rising temperatures, permafrost is thawing and filling with water, which can lead to landslides. This could threaten the populations of Alaska's Eklutna region.

A specialist in the functioning and dynamics of ecosystems, Sandra Lavorel is a pioneer in defining and analyzing the services they provide to human societies.

This scientist is world-renowned in the design of sources for focused ion beams.

This software scientist's research is aimed at developing secure software. Her contribution focuses on the IT tools that enable a written programme to become executable: compilers.

The Geosciences Rennes laboratory celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2023. Here's a glimpse of the research carried out in the geosciences, with modern and varied professions.

Adaptable covalent networks, or vitrimers, combine high mechanical strength, insolubility and the ability to be reshaped after breakage.

Drosophila suzukii is an invasive and damaging fly species native to Southeast Asia, which can devastate up to 80% of a raspberry or cherry field.

The parasite responsible for malaria multiplies in unconventional ways. Roadmap project aim to understand how they replicate their DNA and discover weaknesses that could be exploited as new antimalarial drugs.

The scientists try to gain a better understanding of the hydrological, biogeochemical and ecological mechanisms that control the sources, production and transfer of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in peatlands.

This model of the seabed in the Strait of Gibraltar, installed on the Coriolis platform of the Laboratoire des Eoulements Géophysiques et Industriels laboratory, will provide a better understanding of the impact of localized phenomena on global ocean circulation.

The company's ROSI (Return of Silicon) technologies make it possible to recycle and revalue the components of old photovoltaic panels, including metals and pure silicon, and to limit the loss of production materials.

The start-up Cilkoa's technology makes it possible to produce paper and cardboard packaging that is as waterproof, moistureproof and oxygen-tight as plastic packaging, while being recyclable and compostable.

At the "Physique et ingénierie en matériaux" Institute, scientists are using a robot to study the propulsive and resistive mechanisms of swimming, and are testing the impact of wearing a wetsuit on the movements and forces generated by crawling.

This research is part of the "Neucecho" project, whose aim is to understand the various stages that lead an undifferentiated ectodermal cell (outer leaflet of the embryo) to become a neural cell (of the nervous system)...

This medical imaging technology can “image” vessels in 3D, doing so safely for the patient, particularly in neuroimaging.

This exhibition, designed by the CNRS in partnership with the RATP, is on display from 11 May to 6 July 2023 in the Montparnasse-Bienvenüe metro station in Paris.

The Muography team at IP2I-Lyon, also associated with the start-up Muodim, wants to image Snaefellsjökull. This Icelandic volcano immortalised by Jules Verne in "Journey to the centre of the Earth" is a formidable laboratory for volcanology and glaciology.

Discover some of the images from this competition, which rewards images resulting from research into nanosciences and nanotechnology and focuses on the imaginary.

Jean Nabucet is a research engineer at the Littoral, environnement, télédétection, géomatique (LETG) laboratory and a geographer specializing in assessing the impact of human societies on the urban landscape using remote sensing.

The winners of the new edition of the "La preuve par l'image" competition, organised by the CNRS with its Quebec partner Acfas, are here. Discover these twenty fascinating photos and images, the result of ambitious research.

Gildas Brégain is a specialist in the transnational history of disability. He is interested in the construction of public disability policies on several scales, and in the players involved, particularly in Latin America, North Africa and Western Europe.

Director of Research at the Institute of Chemical Sciences in Rennes, her work focuses on enantiomers, pairs of molecules made up of the same atoms, but whose 3D structure is a mirror image of each other. This phenomenon is known as chirality.

The Papersorb project aims to produce highly effective adsorbent papers capable of purifying the air by selectively trapping harmful volatile organic compounds (VOCs) using metal-organic frameworks (MOFs).

The PerfAnalytics project contributes to bringing scientific precision to the analysis of strength, movement and muscular behaviour of climbers.

Scientists are studying the cultural behaviour of Japanese macaques at several sites in the archipelago. From the late 1940s to the present day, they have observed habits and traditions specific to each group, handed down from generation to generation.