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An exoplanet surrounded by an atmosphere larger than its star

In the past 20 years, scientists have discovered many planets around other stars than the Sun. Nearly half of these so-called exoplanets orbit extremely close to their star (more than ten times closer than Mercury revolves around the Sun in our Solar System), raising many... click to read more

  • Vincent Bourrier | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Department of Astronomy, Geneva Observatory, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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published on Nov 26, 2015
Tara Oceans Expedition sequences the ocean

The Tara Oceans consortium recently published five scientific papers in the journal Science presenting the initial wave of scientific results from the first six years of the project.1-5 The findings show the extraordinary diversity of plankton in the world’s oceans, uncover many of the... click to read more

  • Chris Bowler | CNRS Director of Research at Ecole Normale Supérieure, PSL Research University, Institut de Biologie de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure (IBENS), Paris, France
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published on Nov 24, 2015
Why some forests burn better than others

Forest fires are dramatic ecological events as they can wipe out most of the plants and animals within several kilometers in only a few hours and often also pose a major threat to human settlements. They have a positive ecological impact when occurring naturally because... click to read more

  • Elisa Dell'Aglio | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Department of Botany and Plant Biology, University of Geneva, Switzerland
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published on May 19, 2015