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Nous le savons tous instinctivement : la température est en général plus fraîche au coeur d'une forêt. Mais peut-on aller plus loin et mesurer ce microclimat de manière plus précise, à l'échelle de quelques mètres ? Les scientifiques du projet IMPRINT se sont lancés dans l'aventure en équipant notamment trois forêts françaises de centaines de capteurs de température. Au fil de leur étude, les forêts révèlent peu à peu leur fonction de climatiseurs naturels.

It was thought for a long time that the visually-impaired had no mental representation of space. Luckily, this is wrong. Yet this capacity must be developed from the youngest age. In Toulouse (southwestern France), researchers are working in collaboration with the INJA national institute for blind young people within the joint laborat …

The Gaia satellite is dedicated to astrometry and was launched by ESA in 2013 to map our galaxy in 3D. A team of engineers and researchers from the Paris Observatory based in Meudon is taking part in this mission to try to find out the position and movement of the stars. The probe scans the universe continuously and sends a large amount of data a part of which is studied and analysed by the Observatory team. The results of the European Gaia mission are published in a catalogue and help us to…