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MOSAIC, the Multi-Object Spectrograph of the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT)

The European Southern Observatory has signed a phase A study contract with the MOSAIC consortium. The multi-object spectrograph will be the workhorse instrument for the E-ELT, being the biggest telescope […]

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Young Sun-like Star Shows a Magnetic Field Was Critical for Life on the Early Earth

Nearly four billion years ago, life arose on Earth. Life appeared because our planet had a rocky surface, liquid water, and a blanketing atmosphere. But life thrived thanks to another […]

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First dance step for CALIPSO!

IRAP is developing since 2012 a new way to test and calibrate the plasma instruments conceived within the PEPS group (Planets, Environments and Space Plasmas), CALIPSO (CALibration of Plasma Instruments […]

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Measuring the pH of hydrothermal fluids at high temperature and high pressure: a challenge in geology and many industrial applications

Geologists, chemists and geochemists of the GeoResources laboratory (CNRS, University of Lorraine), of the IRAP (CNRS, University of Toulouse) and of the IGEM (Russian Academy of Sciences) have succeeded in […]

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Astronomy: NIKA2, a new instrument for the detection of millimetric waves

To detect a cold body, it is necessary that detection instruments are even colder, to avoid the thermal “noise” associated with the instrument. Based on the KID technology (Kinetic Inductance […]

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After the Big Bang

Following the Big Bang, the Universe expands and matter, as it cools, gradually structures. The first stars and galaxies form a few hundred thousand years after. About one billion years […]