More about our 2023 highlights

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Focus on some of 2023's key discoveries and contributions.

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  Josephson Junctions in Quantum Hall Effect Regime: The Emergence of a Revolutionary Era in Superconducting Devices

  On November 29, 2023

  In an article published today in the journal Nature, an international team of researchers, led by scientists from the University of Grenoble Alpes and CNRS, announced a breakthrough in the field of quantum physics in sup...

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  Blood of glaciers: how an alga adapts to living in snow

  On November 23, 2023

  In the spring, Alpine glaciers sometimes don a sheer red or orangish veil. Known as ‘red snow’ or ‘blood snow’, this phenomenon is caused by the blooming of Sanguina nivaloides, a microscopic alga.

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  Low-cost green hydrogen using natural catalysts

  On April 7, 2023

  Experts from Swansea University, the Department of Molecular Chemistry (DCM - CNRS/UGA) and the Laboratory for the Chemistry and Biology of Metals (LCBM - CEA/CNRS/UGA) have joined forces to develop a practical way to pr...

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  International team examines how selenium could help in fight against ovarian cancer

  On March 14, 2023

  Selenium is a micronutrient that plays an essential role in human health but is toxic at high levels. However, new biomedical research has shown selenium actually has anti-cancer properties when used at high doses. To ov...

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  An epigenetic checkpoint for plant growth and lignin biosynthesis

  On February 16, 2023

  Using a Histone 3 mutant in the Arabidopsis model plant, researchers from France (LPCV - CEA/CNRS/INRAE/UGA and IBMP - CNRS Strasbourg) and Israel (University of Jerusalem) have studied the true role of the Lysine 27 res...

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  Two proteins join forces to make flowers

  On February 3, 2023

  What mechanisms are behind the formation of flowers? To answer this question, a 25-year-old enigma has just been solved by the team of François Parcy, CNRS researcher at the Laboratoire physiologie cellulaire et végétale...

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  Stereo scientists refute the existence of sterile neutrons

  On January 12, 2023

  Stereo, the collaboration between the CEA, CNRS, the Université Grenoble-Alpes (UGA), the Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB), the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), and the Max Planck Institut für Kernphysik (MPIK), has foun...

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  Discovery of world's oldest DNA breaks million-year record

  On January 5, 2023

  A new chapter in evolutionary history starts with the recent discovery of two-million-year-old DNA: Microscopic fragments of environmental DNA have been discovered in sediments from northern Greenland. Using state-of-the...

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