Climate model shows that Venus could never have had oceans

Environment - Oct 13
Environment
Whether Venus, one of the Solar System's four terrestrial planets, ever had oceans remains an unsolved puzzle. Although an American study hypothesized involving in particular scientists from the CNRS and University of Versailles-Saint Quentin-en-Yvelines 1 (UVSQ). Using a state-of-the-art climate model, the research team has come up with an alternative scenario to the American study.
Astronomy - Oct 7

Mars: first results from the Perseverance rover

Astronomy

Images from Perseverance's French-American instrument SuperCam show that the crater where the rover landed once contained a lake.

Environment - Oct 4

First European map of the insulating effect of forests

Environment

To cool off in summer, there's nothing better than a walk in the woods. Trees act as a buffer that cools the air beneath their foliage in summer and warms it in winter.

Astronomy - Oct 6

Why there is hardly any dust on some asteroids

Astronomy

There was a surprise in store for NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft as it prepared to land on asteroid Bennu in October 2020 in order to collect samples.

Laboratory - Sep 27

Zen stones naturally placed atop pedestals of ice: a phenomenon finally understood

Laboratory

Like a work of art enshrined in a museum, some stones end up on a pedestal of ice in nature, with no human intervention.

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