Rouages: “Thanks to our work, nanosatellites built in Montpellier are generating scientific data in orbit”
Published on: October 31 , 2024
Romain Briand and Ezéchiel Pinède are a mechanical engineer and a systems engineer, respectively…
[LUM#20] On Earth and in space
Published on: October 11 , 2023
When we don't use our muscles as much, they eventually lose their strength. To better…
# Science Is Fun: From the infinitely large with Spirou to the infinitely small…
Published on: February 3 , 2021
Welcome to the program co-produced by the University of Montpellier and Divergence-FM, which…
# Science Is Fun: From the infinitely large with Spirou to the infinitely small…
Published on: February 3 , 2021
Welcome to the program co-produced by the University of Montpellier and Divergence-FM, which…
A nanosatellite to detect the risk of a Cévenol episode
Published on: October 19 , 2020
Better predict Cévenol episodes by collecting data where the water vapor…
Has the mystery of tardigrades’ extreme resilience finally been solved?
Published on: March 11 , 2020
September 2007. A Russian rocket lifts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, carrying…
Toads, fish, and nematodes: the space station’s odd menagerie
Published on: January 11 , 2019
They are called "model organisms": flies, mice, zebrafish, frogs, or…
The Secrets of Tardigrades: The Cosmic Pokémon
Published on: June 8 , 2018
They are clawed and mythically beautiful. Tardigrades, microscopic invertebrates with…
UM’s student-built nanosatellite in orbit
Published on: June 19 , 2017
ROBUSTA 1B, the University of Montpellier’s second nanosatellite, which launched this Friday…
Students in Orbit
Published on: May 30 , 2017
With their Celesta nanosatellite, students from UM have just been selected by…
[LUM#5] Proxima b, the invisible beauty
Published on: March 7 , 2017
It could support life. Just a few interstellar light-years away, Proxima b is reviving an old…
Proxima b, a potentially habitable rocky exoplanet
Published on: August 31 , 2016
Proxima Centauri, the star closest to the Sun, has a planet. Named Proxima…