
The impact of pellets and drops: same fight
Published on: September 28 , 2018
The impact of a drop on a surface has always fascinated mankind; even Leonardo da Vinci...

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

Student geologists, high school students... All together in Iceland!
Published on: June 21 , 2018
Students enrolled in the master's programs in "Earth Dynamics and Natural Hazards" and...

Science enters the world of soccer
Published on: June 20 , 2018
Football is a fast-paced game: football players typically cover 8 to 12 km...

The secrets of tardigrades, those cosmic Pokémon
Published on: June 8 , 2018
They are clawed and mythologically beautiful. Tardigrades, microscopic invertebrates with...

Ticks and their bacteria: a dangerous combination
Published on: June 6 , 2018
Ticks have a bad reputation, 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, etc.

[LUM#7] Beauty Revealed
Published on: March 27 , 2018
Faces, landscapes, works of art... Both universal and relative, beauty conceals many...

[LUM#6] Citizens and scientists
Published on: October 3 , 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 clean up contaminated soil and polluted water, Claude Grison and his ChimEco laboratory...

[LUM#6] After the trauma
Published on: August 29 , 2017
Life sometimes inflicts brutal events upon us... Far from being insignificant, they give rise to...

[LUM#6] The repaired body
Published on: August 22 , 2017
Replacing damaged or diseased cells with healthy cells... That's the principle...

[LUM#6] The origins of speech
Published on: July 25 , 2017
Baboons make sounds that are quite comparable to human vowels. And this despite their...

[LUM#6] Asian hornet vs. carnivorous plant
Published on: July 11 , 2017
The Asian hornet is invading France and Europe, threatening our already struggling bees...

[LUM#6] At the heart of the crater
Published on: July 3 , 2017
How was the giant Chicxulub crater formed by the impact of an asteroid?

UM student nanosatellite in orbit
Published on: June 19 , 2017
ROBUSTA 1B, the second nanosatellite from the University of Montpellier, which took off on Friday...