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11 April 2024

Awards and Distinctions, Press, Research

Yann Klinger awarded ERC Advanced Grant 2023

Yann Klinger, CNRS Research Director and head of the Tectonics and Mechanics of the Lithosphere team at the IPGP, has been awarded the prestigious Eur...

10 April 2024

General public, Research

Meteorites and magnetism in comics!

To make it easier to communicate her research subject, a researcher from the IPGP and MIT has teamed up with an illustrator, herself a geophysicist, t...

11 March 2024

Press, Research

The NanoMagSat mission gets go-ahead from ESA!

The Programme Board for Earth Observation of the European Space Agency (ESA) has just decided to proceed with the NanoMagSat mission. This mission, in...

23 February 2024

Research

Sediments from deep submarine basins reveal the history of mega-earthquakes in the Lesser Antilles

An international team led by researchers from the IPGP has, for the first time, traced the history of major earthquakes in the Lesser Antilles over th...

25 January 2024

Press, Research

On Mars, dust avalanches triggered by major earthquakes

By combining data collected by the SEIS seismometer operated by the InSight mission on Mars with available orbital data, a scientific team has reveale...

27 December 2023

Press, Research

Evaporation and recondensation of volatiles in planetesimals

Angrites are meteorites that come from asteroids representing the first differentiated bodies in the Solar System. These meteorites make it possible t...

29 November 2023

Press, Research

The geodynamic conditions for the formation of the Andes experimentally explored

A team of researchers has used a novel experimental setup to explore the geodynamic conditions under which compressive deformation of the upper tecton...

28 November 2023

Awards and Distinctions, Press, Research

Yann Klinger receives the EGU's Stephan Mueller Medal

Yann Klinger, head of the IPGP's Tectonics and Mechanics of the Lithosphere team, has been awarded the EGU's Stephan Mueller Medal, which rewards rese...

23 November 2023

Press, Research

A model of asteroid formation confirmed by observations from the Lucy probe (NASA)

A numerical model of the formation, at low velocity, of satellites in binary asteroid systems, published on 17 November in the journal Icarus, by a te...

15 November 2023

Research

Oceans on the verge of an asthma attack?

Is it correct to compare the future ocean to an asthma attack? To answer this question, Giovanni Aloisi, a CNRS researcher and geochemist at IPGP, has...

31 October 2023

Awards and Distinctions, Institute Life, Press, Research

IPGP research ranked in the top 10 worldwide and 1st in France for Earth sciences

On 27 October 2023, the Shanghai Ranking published its academic ranking of the world's top universities, covering 54 disciplines. Université Paris Cit...

25 October 2023

Press, Research

InSight seismic data reveals a molten layer at the base of the Martian mantle

The analysis by the InSight mission science team of seismic data recorded on Mars following a meteorite impact that occurred in September 2021 drastic...