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15 Years of Service: The SFMC honors Marc Blanchard
The French Society of Mineralogy and Crystallography presented Marc Blanchard with an award during the Goldschmidt Conference to thank him for the more than 15 years of service he has […]
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All magmas of mantle origin are contaminated by the planetary lithosphere
As part of the ERC ADG PLANETAFELSIC project (2025–2030), scientists from CNRS Terre & Univers (the GET and IRAP laboratories) have shed light on the rate at which magmas of […]
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The mystery of increased runoff in the Central Sahel is better understood
The increase in runoff in the central Sahel since the onset of the drought that affected all of West Africa between 1970 and 1995 is a well-known phenomenon, but an […]
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Ancient guano reveals how climate change could shape the future of seabird populations
The history of seabird population sizes prior to the Anthropocene (the modern era) remains largely unknown. This gap limits our understanding of current phenomena and our ability to predict the […]
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Central African Forest: 600,000 Years of Human History Uncovered Beneath the Canopy
Archaeological excavations conducted in the Congo Basin show that these territories have been inhabited, traversed, and transformed for hundreds of thousands of years—long before Homo sapiens’ great exodus from Africa. […]
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10,000 Years of Food Inequality
An international team of researchers (Inrap, CNRS, Simon Fraser University) has published an article in the journal PNAS titled “Dietary Inequality Marker Reveals 10,000 Years of Gender and Cultural Disparity […]
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The Gargas Cave in the Wake of Climate Change
Efforts to preserve an exceptional site like Gargas began many years ago. Temperature monitoring (air and rock walls) at three locations within the site has been in place since the […]
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Deciphering ancient oceans using pyrite and iron isotopes
Iron isotopes in pyrite are frequently used to better understand environmental conditions throughout our planet’s history, going back to sedimentary archives dating back billions of years. A team of researchers […]
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MSHS-T thesis prize: congratulations to Louise de Palaminy!
The International Scientific Council of the Maison des Sciences Humaines et Sociales de Toulouse (MSHS-T) has awarded its 2025 Interdisciplinary Thesis Prize jointly to Louise de Palaminy (PhD in Archaeometry) […]
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A temperature jump of 400°C at a depth of 2 km—it’s possible in Krafla to cook a steak!
This study explains the heat transfer between a magma reservoir and the surrounding rock in the high-enthalpy geothermal exploration area of Krafla, Iceland. Thermomechanical numerical models explain the sudden jump […]
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Life on Earth represents only a tiny fraction of possible biological forms
What forms does life take on Earth? This is the question asked by scientists from the University of Toulouse and the CNRS, who are exploring the morphological limits of life […]
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MACIV nodes: an exceptional seismological network on the volcanoes of the Massif Central
As part of the MACIV project, funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR), a team of scientists deployed the largest mobile seismological network ever installed by a university team […]
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In the fossil chasms of Quercy
The French documentary was produced by Agat Films-Ex Nihilo, with support from the Occitanie region, the CNRS, and the Natural History Museums of Toulouse and Paris, among others. It highlights […]
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Laterites, archives of past climate and keys to present development
The scarlet lands covering the plains and plateaus of West Africa are much more than just a typical tropical landscape. These laterites bear witness to a geological history spanning tens […]
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Unprecedented mineral and organic compounds discovered in Mars’ Jezero Crater
The Perseverance rover has uncovered sedimentary rocks containing minerals and organic matter organized into structures never before seen on Mars, opening up new perspectives on the Red Planet’s past habitability. […]
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Climate warning for archaeological sites
From the Chauvet cave to the Ile d’Yeu, prehistoric sites are under close surveillance. The hope: to understand how climate change threatens them. And prevent the disappearance of cave paintings. […]
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The origins of continents: continental crust shaped by water
ow did continents appear on Earth? This question, crucial to understanding the emergence of civilizations and life itself, remains one of the great mysteries of the early stages of planetary […]
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Oxygen oases in the oceans 500 million years before oxygenation of the atmosphere
2.9-billion-year-old marine sedimentary rocks from Canada’s Red Lake region reveal areas of oxygen accumulation at a time when the oceans were globally anoxic and iron-rich. These oxygen oases played a […]