[LUM#8] Towards a greener chemistry
Published on: October 23, 2018
By revisiting the age-old technique of the mortar and pestle, researchers at the Institut des...
The impact of balls and drops: the same battle
Published on: september 28, 2018
The impact of a drop on a surface has always fascinated mankind: Leonardo da Vinci...
Nadège Nziza finalist in "Ma thèse en 180 secondes" (My thesis in 180 seconds)
Published on: June 14, 2018
Nadège Nziza, a Montpellier native by adoption, is a doctoral student at UM in physiopathology....
The secrets of tardigrades, the cosmic Pokémon
Published on: 08 June 2018
They're clawed and mythologically beautiful. Tardigrades, microscopic invertebrates with...
The effectiveness of marine reserves compromised by human proximity
Published on: 08 June 2018
The ecological benefits of marine reserves located close to man are...
Ticks and their bacteria: a criminal syndicate
Published on: 06 June 2018
Ticks get a bad press, and this reputation is often justified. These animals...
Man in his environment
Published on: May 31, 2018
Our planet is fragile: this new awareness is making its mark on the 21st century....
A laboratory in the forest
Published on: February 14, 2018
In the open-air laboratory at Puéchabon, researchers are simulating drought to...
From Facebook to plant development: when networks get involved
Published on: February 08, 2018
Telephone network, social network, road network, professional network... The term...
Is it relevant to rank animal species?
Published on: February 01, 2018
The word specieism, proposed by the British psychologist Ryder (1970) and taken up by the philosopher...
[LUM#6] Citizens and scientists
Published on: 03 October 2017
A participatory science project to measure air quality: when researchers and...
[LUM#6] Flowers at the planet's bedside
Published on: september 19, 2017
To heal contaminated soil and polluted water, Claude Grison and his ChimEco laboratory...
[LUM#6] After the trauma
Published: August 29, 2017
Life sometimes inflicts us with brutal events... Far from being trivial, they generate...
[LUM#6] The repaired body
Published on: August 22, 2017
Replacing damaged or diseased cells with healthy ones... That's the principle...
[LUM#6] The origins of speech
Published on: july 25, 2017
Baboons make sounds quite comparable to human vowels. And this despite their...
[LUM#6] Cancer, the evil of rupture
Published on: july 18, 2017
In the animal kingdom, cancer is a rare occurrence. Since time immemorial, species have evolved...