Food has become one of the major challenges of the 21st century. According to a study carried out by CNRS scientists1, an organic, sustainable, biodiversity-friendly agro-food system, could be implemented in Europe and would allow a balanced coexistence between agriculture and the environment. The scenario proposed is based on three levers. The first would involve […]
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How Speech Propels Pathogens
October 5, 2020 – Speech and singing spread saliva droplets, a phenomenon that has attracted much attention in the current context of the Covid-19 pandemic. Scientists from the CNRS, l’université de Montpellier, and Princeton University1 sought to shed light on what takes place during conversations. A first study published in PNAS revealed that the direction and distance of […]
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Reduction in human-induced seismic noise during the pandemic lockdown
July 24, 2020 – A team of 76 seismologists, including several French scientists from the CNRS, the Paris Institute of Earth Physics (IPGP), Université de Paris, Université de Strasbourg and the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD)1 discovered that the lockdown measures used in the fight against the spread of COVID-19 have led to […]
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Two French climate models consistently predict a pronounced global warming
September 17, 2019 – The international climate science community is undertaking an extensive programme of numerical simulations of past and future climates. Its conclusions will contribute significantly to part one of the IPCC1 Sixth Assessment Report, which is expected to be published in 2021. The French scientists involved in the work, in particular at the CNRS, […]
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Geomagnetic jerks finally reproduced and explained
Visualisation of the interior of the Earth’s core, as represented by a computer simulation model (view of the equatorial plane and a spherical surface near the inner core, seen from the North Pole). Magnetic field lines (in orange) are stretched by turbulent convection (in blue and red). Hydromagnetic waves are emitted from the inner core, […]