The impact of beads 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...
Did the Romans hunt whales in the Mediterranean?
Published on: July 11, 2018
Commercial whaling, hitherto thought to have begun with the...
Geologists, students, high-school pupils... All together in Iceland!
Published on: june 21, 2018
Students from the "Earth Dynamics and Natural Hazards" master's program and...
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...
The secrets of tardigrades, those cosmic Pokémons
Published on: 08 June 2018
They're clawed and mythologically beautiful. Tardigrades, microscopic invertebrates with...
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...
Chronic pain: why it persists even when the cause has disappeared
Published on: April 18, 2018
Certain types of pain, caused by an accident, a fall or surgery,...
[LUM#7] Beauty unveiled
Published on: March 27, 2018
Faces, landscapes, works of art... At once universal and relative, beauty conceals many...
[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] Asian hornet vs. carnivorous plant
Published on: July 11, 2017
The Asian hornet invades France and Europe, threatening our already ailing bees....
[LUM#6] In the heart of the crater
Published on: 03 July 2017
How the giant Chicxulub crater was formed by a falling asteroid...
UM's student nanosatellite in orbit
Published on: june 19, 2017
ROBUSTA 1B, the second nanosatellite to be launched by the University of Montpellier,...