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Jo Nield, une chercheuse, étudie une mini-dune en Namibie. Le scanner laser terrestre permet d’obtenir une modélisation en 3D de la topographie.
CNRS Le journal

The secret of sand patches

Portrait photo de Pascale Senellart
Femmes en physique
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Solace of quantum

Réglage et observation du spectre d'un laser femtoseconde.
Institutionnel

Tremplin@Physique and Emergence@Physique 2025 calls for project results

Superfluorescence in perovskites
Résultat scientifique

Superfluorescence in perovskites

Institutionnel

5 QVCT “Professional Equality for All” winning projects in CNRS Physics units

As part of the QVCT  Call for Projects 2024, the CNRS has rewarded 34 projects aiming to improve the quality of life at work, with the theme of “Professional equality for all”…
A nanoparticle is placed in contact with a plasmonic wave (a light wave confined to the surface of a metal). In this illustration, the wave is represented by undulations similar to those observed on the surface of a liquid.
Résultat scientifique

It's now possible to make matter vibrate on a nanometric scale using a magnetic field!

View of a G centre in which the central atom jumps from one site to another. The carbon atoms appear in black, the interstitial silicon atom in violet and the other silicon atoms in the crystal in blue.
Résultat scientifique

A nanoscopic casino roulette wheel in silicon !

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.
Résultat scientifique

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
Résultat scientifique

Laser microbubbles to test plant cell pressure