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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]