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Publication from Laboratoire de physique at ENS de Lyon, FAST, Institut Lumière Matière and Lavrentyev Institute of Hydrodynamics in  Physical review letters , February 15, 2019.

GRENOBLE, France - Jan. Leti, an institute of CEA-Tech, will present eight invited papers, 21 in total, at Photonics West 2019 in San Francisco, and unveil its latest research on improved photonics-electronics and software convergence at a Feb.

On October 29, 2018 the European Union announced the projects selected for the FET Flagship on Quantum Technologies, a European research program of unprecedented scope, with funding of one billion euros over ten years.

On October 29, 2018 the European Union announced the projects selected for the FET Flagship on Quantum Technologies , a European research program of unprecedented scope, with funding of one billion euros over ten years.

ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) has achieved first light with a new adaptive optics mode called laser tomography - and has captured remarkably sharp test images of the planet Neptune, star clusters and other objects.

A new site opened on Friday, June 15, 2018, at the LHC, the Large Hadron Collider. Begun in 2011, this project aims to commission a high-luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) by 2026 that will increase the number of proton-proton collisions and gather more data.

Picture: (a) Hz, (b) Hr, (c) H? isoamplitude contours (red, positive value; blue, opposite negative value), and (d) magnetic streamlines colored by the H? value.

Fiber networks encompass a wide range of natural and manmade materials. The threads or filaments from which they are formed span a wide range of length scales: from nanometers, as in biological tissues and bundles of carbon nanotubes, to millimeters, as in paper and insulation materials.

The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to the physicists Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne for the detection of gravitational waves, predicted by Albert Einstein in 1916 in his general theory of relativity.

In 2017, the CNRS has awarded two Gold Medals, to the physicists Alain Brillet and Thibault Damour for their major contributions to the detection of gravitational waves, first announced on 11 February 2016 1 .

The faster, more powerful European XFEL free-electron laser 1 was inaugurated on September 1, 2017, near Hamburg, Germany.

From left to right: Quentin Marsal, Léa Lachaud, Flavien Museur, Elise Camus, Tristan Guyomar, Jeanne Bernard, Louison Thorens.

How do flocks, herds and swarms move through disordered environments? The answer to this question is crucial not only to animal groups in the wild, but also to effectively all applications of collective robotics and active materials composed of synthetic motile units1.

Geometrical and mechanical models of virus assembly. The mechanical stress during assembly determines globally the final shape of a virus: compact (e.g.

Nanocars will compete for the first time ever during an international molecule-car race on April 28-29, 2017 in Toulouse (south-western France).

Dissolution dynamic nuclear polarization (d-DNP) is a powerful method to enhance nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) signals by several orders of magnitude, notably in 13C-labelled metabolites.

A new ultra-bright source of single photons - 15 times brighter than commonly used sources and emitting photons that are 99.5% indistinguishable from one another - has been developed by researchers from the CNRS, Université Paris Diderot, and Université Paris-Sud 1 .

A hundred years after Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves, researchers of the LIGO and VIRGO collaborations (of which the CNRS is a founding member), are issuing an update on these tiny ripples in the fabric of space-time.