Breakthrough Towards Lasers Powerful Enough to Investigate a New Kind of Physics
An international team of researchers has demonstrated an innovative technique for increasing the intensity of lasers. In a paper that made the cover of the…
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Physicist’s 50-Year-Old Magnetic Structure Prediction Evidenced at Surprisingly Large Scales
Imaging Magnetic Instabilities Using Laser Accelerated Protons An international team of researchers highlighted two variants of Weibel’s instability. The magnetic structures resulting from a plasma…
Key Role of a Protein Revealed in Rare Disease in Children That Has No Cure
Canadian scientists take one step closer to a better understanding of Batten disease. Professor Stéphane Lefrançois, a researcher at the Institut National de la Recherche…
Using an Engineered Nanomaterial and Sunlight to Decontaminate Pesticide-Polluted Water
Two Teams of INRS Join Forces and Develop a New Ecological Process to Degrade Atrazine Atrazine is one of the most widely used pesticides in…
Thawing Permafrost is Changing Arctic and Subarctic Lakes and Ponds
As ice the melts, the organic carbon found in permafrost is being released once again after ages of confinement in the soil. It is making…