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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.

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.

New Hybrid Laser Architectures Presented at Photonics West Demonstrate Three Credible Paths Toward Compact, Scalable Mid-Infrared Photonic Systems - SAN FRANCISCO SPIE Photonics West highlighting maj

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.

According to a CNRS communication dated September 30, 2025.

National press release. The 4MOST instrument, installed in Chile on the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) VISTA telescope and developed largely by teams from the CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 , and ENS de Lyon, has just achieved first light.

The 4MOST instrument, installed on the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile and developed in large part by CNRS teams at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 and ENS Lyon, has captured its first light.

Published in -Nature Communications Materials-, Paper Details Creation of Record-Setting Red Emission from InGaN Quantum Wells GRENOBLE, France - Sept.

Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Trieste. Visiting Professor 2025-2026: From January 5 to January 23, 2026, and from February 3 to February 13, 2026.

CNRS press release dated 23 July 2025.

The NSF-Doe Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has unveiled the very first "mega" images of the cosmos obtained thanks to the extraordinary features and wide-field view of its LSST camera-the largest in the world.

First-Reported Device -Improves Resolution and Penetration Depth Of Optical Imaging Techniques for Biomedical Applications-'- SAN FRANCISCO - Dec.

The COLIBRI ground-based telescope unveiled its first images at its inauguration on September 7, 2024 at the San Pedro Mártir National Astronomical Observatory, Mexico.

On 22 June, a Chinese Long March 2C rocket launched the SVOM satellite, carrying two French-designed instruments, into orbit.

Between delays in delivering the new European infrastructure under construction in Sweden and uncertainty surrounding the future of the Laue Langevin Institute, which is the last neutron source on Fr

The winner of the 2023 CNRS Silver Medal, Alexander Kuhn has marked the scientific community with his research in electrochemistry, which is of interest in fields ranging from pharmaceuticals to robotics.

An international research team led by scientists from the CNRS 1 has discovered that the magnetic nanobubbles 2 known as skyrmions can be moved by electrical currents, attaining record speeds up to 900 m/s.

The recently assembled LSST 1 camera is now ready to make the trip from the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in the United States to the Vera C. Rubin Observatory 2 in Chile, where it will be installed in May 2024.

The use of E171 in food has been banned in Europe since 2022. Pioneering work by INRAE has shown that this food additive passes into the bloodstream and has toxic effects in the intestine.

CEA-Leti will present two papers on its microLED technology advances at Photonics West 2024 about making matrices of LEDs with increased data-rate density, and strategies to reduce their efficiency loss at small sizes. Described in the paper, - Parallel Communication with InGaN/GaN Micro-LEDs Using a CMOS Compatible Approach - making LEDs directly on a 200 mm silicon substrate opens the way to producing a matrix of LEDs of a few microns that are individually controlled by dedicated CMOS circuits.

Publication of the Physics Laboratory in the journal Physical Review Letters on January 19, 2024. News by CNRS Physics on January 23, 2024.

The CNRS is joining forces with Michigan State University in the United States to create a new international laboratory.

Congratulations to the physics students of ENS de Lyon and their coaches for this wonderful victory.