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Two new ERC Proof of Concept 2025 grant recipients in CNRS Physics laboratories

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Magnetic Whirlpools Create Their Own Rhythms, Revealing New States of Matter

Artist’s view of the atom chip used at the University of Basel and of three entangled Bose–Einstein condensates serving as local sensors.
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Quantum metrology: a sensor network to surpass the standard limit

Phase diagram for three particles as a function of interaction strength c and forcing amplitude K.
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Together they restore chaos!

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Dispersion of swimming microalgae under flow conditions

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Gravitation and radiation : news from the edge

Superionic water found at the core of giant planets has been studied in the laboratory, where extreme geological conditions of temperature (several thousand degrees) and pressure (several million times atmospheric pressure) have been reproduced on very small systems.
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Unexpected structural complexity at the heart of superionic water

Elastic model of an icosahedral viral capsid. The capsid consists of triangular subunits, some of which are marked here in orange, which can be deformed to minimise the energy of the whole. The colours of the proteins are chosen to reflect their symmetry group.
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Flexible proteins for assembling viruses: from disorder to symmetry