Knitting, an everyday metamaterial

Materials Science

Light, soft, resistant, deformable and sometimes ugly, knitwear is not just an everyday object; it's also a metamaterial whose extraordinary properties are of great interest to physicists.

Physics - Jan 15

Knitwear, a metamaterial of every day

A researcher from the Physics Laboratory at ENS de Lyon "unravels knitwear" to turn it into a research subject. This article made the front page of the latest Pop Sciences newsletter. Written by Martin Koppe for the CNRS, the article honours Audrey Steinberger and her subject, which might be considered "exotic": knitwear.

Health - Jan 8

A major advance in the management of avian influenza epidemics: a digital tool for better tracking of infected farms

Health

Scientists from Toulouse's UMR IHAP (INRAE/ENVT) and the Netherlands' Wageningen Bioveterinary Research have developed a new tool for optimizing contact tracing in infected farms. This was published in the Journal Royal Society Interface on January 8, 2025

Post-traumatic stress: brain plasticity, a key mechanism for trauma resilience

The Remember project provides new insights into post-traumatic stress disorder © Inserm.

Health - Jan 6

Performance of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus surveillance in vaccinated farms

Health

A study published in the international journal Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) by Toulouse-based scientists from UMR IHAP (INRAE/ENVT) demonstrates that enhanced event-based surveillance, based on

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