Many exoplanets known today are ‘super-Earths,’ with a radius 1.3 times that of Earth, and…
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Several interacting exoplanets have already been spotted by satellites. But a new breakthrough has been…
An international collaboration bringing together over 200 scientists from 13 countries has shown that the…
Global warming is causing species to search for more temperate environments to migrate to, but…
Through the assessment of the 1062 marine protected areas (MPAs) in the Mediterranean Sea, covering…
Contrary to popular belief, Neanderthals were no less technologically advanced than Homo sapiens. An international…
Since its accidental introduction in 2003 in France, the yellow-legged Asian hornet (Vespa velutina nigrithorax)…
A palette of colors on a silver plate: that is what the world’s first color…
In all human populations, average lifespans are longer for women than for men. Moreover, nine…
The small red planet is losing water more quickly than what theory, as well as…
Until now, archaeozoologists have been unable to reconstruct the earliest stages of domestication: the process…
Albatrosses do not only inspire poets and ancient mariners! Scientists at the Centre d’études biologiques…
Why is ice so slippery? The answer lies in a film of water that is…
Whether they occur on holiday routes or the daily commute, traffic jams affect cars as…
Scientists from the CNRS and Aix-Marseille Université have recently shown how valuable light-sensitive macromolecules are:…
The Solar System’s second largest planet both in mass and size, Saturn is best known…
Comets made up of two lobes, such as 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, visited by the Rosetta spacecraft, are…
New research investigates the combination of elliptical deformation of streamlines and vorticity that can lead…