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Pascale Senellart, médaillée de l'innovation, et l'ordinateur à photonique quantique de Quandela
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The 2025 CNRS Innovation Medal has been awarded to the physicist Pascale Senellart

International scientific collaboration network on COVID-19, on the Netscity app.
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14 international projects supported by CNRS Physics in 2025

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ERC Consolidator Grant 2025 : Three recipients within the CNRS Physics laboratories

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

The input numbers are first transformed into a one-dimensional vector, which is then encoded into a pumping pattern by matrix multiplication.
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Coupled nanolaser networks as substrates for photonic neuromorphic computing

Schematic of the operando X-ray photoemission measurement that enable the probing of the in plane and out plane electric field.
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Where’s the bias, then?

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Launch of the 2026 external researcher competition campaign

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Ultra-fine grain aluminum observed under transmission electron microscopy showing a crack propagating in an area where all crystal domains with different orientations (the “grains”) are identified by color. As they move, the interfaces between these domains (the “grain boundaries”) carry a small deformation that can blunt the crack.
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A complex mechanism of plasticity observed in metals

Three dynamic regimes for learning in a two-layer neural network with m hidden neurons (labeled MF, Feat. learning, Feat. learning and Overfit/Unlearn in the figure).
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A scenario for learning in overparametrized neural networks

Top: STM image showing surface defect patterns with varying periodicities (left) and a superimposed model of the two-dimensional Magnéli-type phase illustrating the ordered arrangement of a peculiar surface oxygen vacancy (right).
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A Nanoscale Twist: Discovery of 2D Magnéli Phases in MoO₃ Films