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The Year of Engineering 2025-2026: Building a Sustainable Future

The Year of Engineering 2025-2026 aims to bring together schools, research, businesses, and the general public to promote careers as well as scientific and technological knowledge that will shape a sustainable and responsible future.

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Spotlight on Particle physics

Piton de la Fournaise, an erupting volcano

Spotlight on women in science

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The ocean, so strong and yet so fragile

A CNRS exhibition that reminds us just how much the ocean needs all the sciences. This immense unknown, fragile and threatened, is damaged by our activities, both at sea and on land. Mysterious and tumultuous, it feeds us, makes us breathe and regulates our climate.

Installing the LST-2 telescope on La Palma

At the top of La Palma in the Canary Islands, scientists are installing the second Large-Sized Telescope (LST-2) of the Cherenkov Telescope Array. A spectacular milestone in this international project dedicated to observing gamma rays from the most extreme cosmic events.

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Médaille d'or 2025 : Stéphane Mallat, bâtisseur de ponts mathématiques et informatiques

Stéphane Mallat, mathématicien et professeur au Collège de France, a reçu la médaille d'or du CNRS 2025 pour une carrière exceptionnelle à l'intersection des mathématiques et de l'intelligence artificielle. Il est notamment reconnu pour ses travaux sur les ondelettes, des outils mathématiques qui permettent de représenter et analyser efficacement de grandes quantités de données — un principe utilisé dans la compression d'images, comme le format JPEG 2000. Au fil de sa carrière, Mallat a su…

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Photovoltaïque : quel impact sur nos lacs ?

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The Lautaret Garden, between sciences and snow

At the Lautaret Garden, discovery and science meet: from winter field research to thematic schools welcoming French and American students, this photo report showcases a site where knowledge and observation take shape in the heart of the Alps.