Neanderthal human occupations on the Chartres plateau (Eure-et-Loir)

History & Archeology

In response to a request from the French government, and following a diagnostic study carried out in 2017, which revealed numerous flint remains, Inrap and Chartres Métropole carried out an excavation at the Enclos site (1500 m²), in Mainvilliers, west of Chartres. Studies carried out on this lithic material have revealed convincing and as yet unpublished evidence of Neanderthal human occupation of the plateau west of Chartres during a late phase of the Middle Paleolithic.

Health - Feb 4

Lou Gehrig’s disease or Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: sleep alterations occurs prior to motor symptoms

Motoneurones (stained by immunohistochemistry for ChAT) of the lumbar section of the spinal cord in ALS mouse models.

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.

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

Healthy food purchasing: what role do pricing policies and nutrition labelling play?

Agronomy & Food Science

Do price and display policies encourage consumers to make healthier food purchases - Does the coupling of these policies make them more effective - Researchers at INRAE have studied the separate effects of these two policies on the nutritional quality of food baskets. Through an experimental study, they show that price and nutrition labelling policies have no additive effects. The study was published on December 19 in the Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization.

An ancient villa in Pernant (Aisne)

History & Archeology

5 km west of Soissons, in the commune of Pernant (Aisne), an excavation carried out from August to December 2024 uncovered part of an ancient villa .

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.

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

Environment - Jan 3

Co-management of protected areas by NGOs and African countries helps reduce deforestation

Environment

In order to better protect ecosystems and biodiversity, several African countries have set up innovative management models in which protected areas are co-managed by government bodies and international or national NGOs through partnerships that can span several decades.

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History / Archeology - 07.02.2025
Neanderthal human occupations on the Chartres plateau (Eure-et-Loir)
Neanderthal human occupations on the Chartres plateau (Eure-et-Loir)
In response to a request from the French government, and following a diagnostic study carried out in 2017, which revealed numerous flint remains, Inrap and Chartres Métropole carried out an excavation at the Enclos site (1500 m²), in Mainvilliers, west of Chartres.

Health - Life Sciences - 04.02.2025
Lou Gehrig’s disease or Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: sleep alterations occurs prior to motor symptoms
Motoneurones (stained by immunohistochemistry for ChAT) of the lumbar section of the spinal cord in ALS mouse models. Scale 100 mm © Simon J Guillot, Daniel Beckett ,Matei Bolborea Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), Charcot's disease, or Lou Gehrig's disease is a severe neurodegenerative disease that leads to progressive paralysis of muscles involved in voluntary movement.

History / Archeology - 23.01.2025
An ancient villa in Pernant (Aisne)
An ancient villa in Pernant (Aisne)
5 km west of Soissons, in the commune of Pernant (Aisne), an excavation carried out from August to December 2024 uncovered part of an ancient villa .

Physics - 15.01.2025
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.

Materials Science - Physics - 13.01.2025
Knitting, an everyday metamaterial
Knitting, an everyday metamaterial
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. While physics research is often associated with such gigantic technical infrastructures as the LHC, it also sometimes takes an interest in everyday objects.

Life Sciences - Health - 08.01.2025
Post-traumatic stress: brain plasticity, a key mechanism for trauma resilience
The Remember project provides new insights into post-traumatic stress disorder © Inserm Following a shocking, dangerous or frightening experience, such as a terrorist attack, many people develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In order to improve its management, numerous scientific studies are examining the neurobiological processes underlying the development of this disorder.

Health - 08.01.2025
A major advance in the management of avian influenza epidemics: a digital tool for better tracking of infected farms
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 . Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) is a major threat to domestic poultry, causing considerable economic losses and requiring rapid intervention to limit its spread.

Health - 06.01.2025
Performance of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus surveillance in vaccinated farms
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 weekly sampling of ducks found dead, is the most effective strategy for rapidly detecting the presence of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus in duck farms vaccinated against HPAI.

Environment - 03.01.2025
Co-management of protected areas by NGOs and African countries helps reduce deforestation
In order to better protect ecosystems and biodiversity, several African countries have set up innovative management models in which protected areas are co-managed by government bodies and international or national NGOs through partnerships that can span several decades. An international research team, led by INRAE and involving Le Havre University, reviews this collaborative management model in 127 partnerships covering almost 1 million square kilometres.

Agronomy / Food Science - 20.12.2024
Healthy food purchasing: what role do pricing policies and nutrition labelling play?
Do price and display policies encourage consumers to make healthier food purchases - Does the coupling of these policies make them more effective - Researchers at INRAE have studied the separate effects of these two policies on the nutritional quality of food baskets. Through an experimental study, they show that price and nutrition labelling policies have no additive effects.

Life Sciences - Chemistry - 16.12.2024
Influenza virus genome: finally discovered in its coat
Influenza virus genome: finally discovered in its coat
To fight the virus that causes influenza, one of the avenues being explored by scientists is the development of drugs capable of destabilising its genome, made up of eight RNA 1 molecules.

Environment - 10.12.2024
What are the consequences of deforestation and tropical forest degradation on ecosystems?
An international team of researchers from the AMAP laboratory (Botany and Modeling of Plant and Vegetation Architecture), under the auspices of the University of Montpellier and INRAE, has investigated the consequences of deforestation and degradation of tropical forests. The study, published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution on December 10, identified "winning" and "losing" species, leading to the functional impoverishment of tropical forest ecosystems.

History / Archeology - 09.12.2024
An ancient spa discovered at Soyons (Ardèche)
An ancient spa discovered at Soyons (Ardèche)
On the banks of the Rhône, at the foot of the Massif du Malpas, a team of Inrap archaeologists has excavated part of an ancient spa area, occupied between the 1st and 4th centuries AD.

Health - Pharmacology - 09.12.2024
MASH Discovery Redefines Subtypes with Distinct Risks : Shaping the Future of Fatty Liver Disease Treatment
MASH is a growing pandemic worldwide, with obesity and diabetes on the rise. It is also an area of significant unmet medical need. François Pattou Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), formerly referred to as nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), impacts roughly 30% of the global adult population.

Astronomy / Space - 03.12.2024
A new theory on the origin of water on Earth
A new theory on the origin of water on Earth
A team of astronomers has identified a potential new mechanism for bringing water to Earth, offering a promising departure from previous theories. Based on numerous observations of the Solar System, as well as observations of extrasolar debris disks by the ALMA radio telescope, the results are published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics .

Environment - Life Sciences - 03.12.2024
Bioethanol: optimising wood pre-treatment for profitable production
Various complex processes enable the release of the sugars contained in wood, which are used in particular to produce second-generation bioethanol. Scientists from INRAE, the University of Reims-Champagne-Ardenne and the company Européenne de Biomasse have identified ranges of technological trade-off (temperature and pre-treatment time) that enable oak and poplar residues to be reclaimed while minimising the economic investment.

Environment - Earth Sciences - 02.12.2024
1,100 km in Antarctica to better understand the evolution of the ice cap
1,100 km in Antarctica to better understand the evolution of the ice cap

Health - Life Sciences - 21.11.2024
Bacteriophages: a targeted alternative to antibiotics
Bacteriophages: a targeted alternative to antibiotics
With the rise of antibiotics in the 1930s, phage therapy (i.e. the use of viruses called bacteriophages to fight bacterial infections) was abandoned. Today, with the rise of antibiotic resistance making the treatment of bacterial infections increasingly difficult, phage therapy is once again attracting the interest of doctors and researchers, despite the complexity of its application due to the great diversity and specificity of bacteriophages.

Health - 21.11.2024
In the world's highest city, scientists measure the effects of oxygen deprivation on the body
In the world’s highest city, scientists measure the effects of oxygen deprivation on the body
The higher we climb, the lower the oxygen supply to our bodies. Since 2019, a research team from Inserm, Grenoble Alpes University and Grenoble Alpes University Hospital has been investigating the health consequences of oxygen restriction. Their work has taken them to Peru, to Rinconada, the world's highest city (5,300 m), which has become a veritable open-air laboratory.

Earth Sciences - 18.11.2024
How 70% of the Mediterranean Sea was lost 5.5 million years ago
How 70% of the Mediterranean Sea was lost 5.5 million years ago
A new study, led by a CNRS researcher 1 , has highlighted just how significantly the level of the Mediterranean Sea dropped during the Messinian Salinity Crisis - a major geological event that transformed the Mediterranean into a gigantic salt basin between 5.97 and 5.33 million years ago 2 .
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