
[LUM#8] Research apartment
Published on: October 30, 2018
What will the apartment of tomorrow look like? For three years, a team of researchers will...

[LUM#8] Towards a greener chemistry
Published on: October 23, 2018
By revisiting the age-old technique of mortar and pestle, researchers at the Institut des...

[LUM#8] A robot vacuum cleaner on the ocean floor
Published on: October 16, 2018
Led by Vincent Creuze, researcher at Lirmm, and Sébastien Dutertre, researcher at...

Oil at over $80, bad for the economy, good for the climate?
Published on: October 10, 2018
When Nicolas Hulot left the French government, he mentioned among the reasons for his resignation the...

[LUM#8] Protecting living things
Published on: October 09, 2018
Faced with the major ecological crisis facing our planet, this is the key challenge facing...

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...

Île de Ré's Baleines lighthouse, a reminder of energy transitions
Published: August 20, 2018
Every summer, the population of the island of Ré, which numbers just over 17,000 in winter,...

Hospital: when caregivers invent their own solutions to their discomfort
Published on: July 16, 2018
Nurse suicides, mass resignations of exhausted emergency doctors, strikes...

Music in the sights of industrial groups
Published on: July 12, 2018
The French music industry is shaken by the unprecedented entry of industrial groups,...

Did the Romans hunt whales in the Mediterranean?
Published on: July 11, 2018
Commercial whaling, hitherto thought to have begun with the...

Science invites itself into the world of soccer
Published on: june 20, 2018
Soccer is a game of movement: soccer players generally cover 8 to 12 km...

In France, mosquitoes also transmit the Usutu virus
Published: June 18, 2018
It happened two years ago, but scientists have only just discovered...

A "queer match": ordinary homophobia and enforced heterosexuality
Published on: June 12, 2018
Do you know how many footballers in the world embrace their homosexuality? And how were they...

The secrets of tardigrades, those cosmic Pokémons
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...

A French "Windrush"? What France has done to its overseas populations
Published on: 07 June 2018
The "Windrush" scandal continues to make headlines in the UK. The...