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Atomic force microscope for high-resolution visualization of biological sample surfaces.
Résultat scientifique

When a soft mattress levitates the sleeper…

Aerial view of SOLEIL synchrotron. Two elongated rectangular buildings emerge from a large circular building.
Institutionnel

Research infrastructures are responding to the challenges of the environmental transition

https://www.cnrs.fr/en/update/research-infrastructures-are-responding-challenge…
Destructions provoquées par le séisme de Spitak (Arménie), le 7 Décembre 1988.
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Decreasing aftershocks: time was not the good metronome!

Nucleation of a laser-cavitated bubble in a stoma on the surface of a plant leaf, here Selaginella Kraussiana sur surface d'une feuille de plante
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Laser microbubbles to test plant cell pressure

image illustrative
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Phase transitions: a wave that doesn’t propagate but spreads like tea in water

https://www.lkb.fr/en/laboratoire/presentation/actualites/nambu-goldstone-mode/
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Twisted flux ropes as the key to solar flares and atmospheric heating

https://www.cnrs.fr/fr/node/10373
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Physicist Vincenzo Vitelli appointed Fellow-Ambassador at the CNRS

Image obtained with the LKB's quantum gas microscope. Each red dot corresponds to the fluorescence signal from a single lithium atom frozen in an optical lattice.
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How can a quantum wave packet be observed in situ?