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Nature article: Underground, Fungi Organize Large-Scale Carbon Transport
For nearly 450 million years, mycorrhizal fungi have constructed networks to collect and trade nutrient resources with plant roots. Owing to their dependence on host-derived carbon, these fungi face conflicting trade-offs in building networks (...)
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PRF editors’ suggestion: Experiments and videos reveal how winds...
Experiments and videos reveal how winds create complex patterns in Ned Kahn’s artworks Inspired by environmental artist Ned Kahn’s building facades – made of thousands of aluminum plates that oscillate in sync with changing winds – the (...)
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New ! M2 Internships at PMMH
Looking for a M2 Internship or a PhD ? The proposal list is available ! Download the proposal list
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Aliénor Rivière awarded the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science
Modéliser les bulles océaniques pour améliorer les modèles climatiques C’est au collège qu’Aliénor Rivière a un déclic pour la science, après l’intervention d’un chercheur du CNRS. Enthousiasmée par cette rencontre, elle s’oriente vers des (...)
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Best Student Presentation Award for Nathan Vani
Congratulations to Nathan Vani and the MecaWet team, who won the “Best Student Presentation Award” at the EuroMech Mechanics of Materials conference after being selected as the best presentation of the “Soft and slender structures” symposium (...)
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Day in tribute to Etienne Guyon
On April 22, we organized a day in honor of Etienne Guyon who left us last summer. The day was recorded by Adam Guyon, in two parts: Morning: link Afternoon: link
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François Frenkiel Award 2023
Congratulations to Aliénor Rivière, Stéphane Perrard and their coauthors, recipients of the François Frenkiel Award for their paper “Capillary driven fragmentation of large gas bubbles in turbulence” (link). Aliénor Rivière gave the associated (...)
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PRL editors’ suggestion about wave resonant absorption
Perfect Resonant Absorption of Guided Water Waves by Autler-Townes Splitting L.-P. Euvé, K. Pham, R. Porter, P. Petitjeans, V. Pagneux, and A. Maurel Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 204002 (2023) – Published 17 November 2023 Focus: Vanishing Act for (...)
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Étienne Guyon
Superconductivity, superfluidity, liquid crystals, hydrodynamic instabilities and turbulence, porous media, granular systems and others are the themes on which the French physicist Étienne Guyon, who died on July 12 at the age of 88, made major (...)
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Sylvain Patinet, CNRS Bronze medal 2023
Sylvain Patinet, CNRS research scientist at PMMH, a specialist in multi-scale modeling of amorphous materials, has just received the bronze medal of the CNRS. Congratulations! Read the press release from ESPCI Paris: (...)