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O A page from the Archimedes Palimpsest, considered lost for several decades, has been identified by a CNRS researcher at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Blois.

Identified as the most complete Australopithecus fossil discovered to date 1 , "Little Foot" was buried in sediments whose movement and weight caused fractures and deformations, making analysis of its skull-and more particularly its face-difficult.

Thanks to Fink, a software founded by two CNRS 1 engineers, it is now possible to track millions of transient celestial phenomena observed in the sky by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, in real time and with unprecedented precision.

While the ability to climb trees has often been studied in arboreal mammals, descending is a far more complex task, as it requires control of balance, speed and posture.

Far from the common assumption of a strictly binary division of labour, the roles of women and men in Neolithic Europe were both clearly differentiated and flexible.

As part of the ENS-IISER partnership, Gayatree MISHRA , a doctoral candidate from IISER Bhopal, joined ENS de Lyon through the BIOSANTEXC program and completed a three-month internship at the IGFL.

A French research team led by CNRS scientists¹ has discovered that cells are able to retain a memory of a previous perturbation within the 3D structure of their genome, independently of their DNA sequence.

New Multi-Year Agreement Will Focus on Accelerating Pathfinding of New Materials and Processes for the Manufacturing of More Energy-Efficient Specialty Devices - FREMONT, Calif.

A specific molecular mechanism has been identified as the cause of the most frequent genetic forms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, also known as Charcot's disease) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the United Nations Agreement on the High Seas (BBNJ) and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) have demonstrated strong commitment by governme

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LGBTQ+ people face unequal treatment across different human societies. Several concomitant factors can contribute to this discrimination at various levels of society, resulting in diminished living conditions.

According to a CNRS press release dated November 14, 2025. In January 2024, the CNRS launched a collective scientific study to examine the uses of rare earths from a circular economy perspective.

Considered as essential metals in numerous fields such as energy, mobility, digital technology, defence, and health, rare earths 1 have garnered special attention within an international supply context that is under pressure.

According to a CNRS publication dated November 5, 2025. Based on a scientific publication in Nature Communications to which Stéphane Santucci, a CNRS researcher at ENS de Lyon's Physics Laboratory (LPENSL), contributed: Multiscale stress dynamics in sheared liquid foams revealed by tomo-rheoscopy.

Dogs exhibited morphological differences from wolves around 11,000 B.C. Even at that time, there was a surprising range of variation among early dogs - long before the 19th century breeding practices that produced modern breeds.

While the role of certain air pollutants is now recognized in some cancers in adults, it has not yet been established in the case of acute leukemia in children.

According to a CNRS communication dated September 30, 2025.

A study conducted across 43 European countries by an international scientific team coordinated by Université Grenoble Alpes , in collaboration with the CNRS , Inserm, and the French National Research