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Published on August 24, 2022

Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA) maintains its position in the top 150 of the Shanghai 2024 ranking of the world’s best universities, published on August 15. On a national level, UGA also maintains its position as the 5th largest university in France, and 1st university in the region, alongside the universities of Aix-Marseille and Strasbourg, after the 4 institutions in the Paris region: Université Paris Saclay, PSL, Sorbonne Université, and Paris Cité.
Among these disciplines are the (…)

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Published on May 30, 2022
ESA News

While volcanic eruptions and earthquakes serve as immediate reminders that Earth’s insides are anything but tranquil, there are also other, more elusive, dynamic processes happening deep down below our feet. Using information from ESA’s Swarm satellite mission, scientists have discovered a completely new type of magnetic wave that sweeps across the outermost part of Earth’s outer core every seven years. This fascinating finding, presented today at ESA’s Living Planet Symposium, opens a new (…)

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Published on February 21, 2022

Mercury being so close to the Sun, the environment of formation of the planet is considered to be depleted in oxygen, and thus very reducing, leading to the presence of significant quantities of silicon alloyed with iron in its core (Fe-Si alloy). However, the phase diagram of the Fe-FeSi system remained poorly constrained to the high pressure and high temperature conditions prevailing at the center of Mercury
A team of researchers, led mainly by members of IMPMC and ISTerre, have (…)

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Published on February 04, 2022

Metropolitan France shows a strong structural heritage and a low deformation rate. However, destructive earthquakes can occur there. Active faults are therefore a priority research topic for our societies. In this article and as part of a national effort to identify the still largely fragmentary knowledge, the team of researchers involved in this study stresses that major efforts from the active tectonics and paleoseismology community are needed to generate robust data, especially on the (…)

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Published on December 15, 2021

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Published on November 24, 2021
Academy of Sciences

On 23 November, took place under the dome of the Institut de France, the Award ceremony of the Academy of Sciences 2021. These awards honour experienced scientists or young researchers at the beginning of their careers. Through them, the Academy of Sciences contributes directly to its mission of encouraging scientific life.
Among these awards, the Prix Ampère de l’Électricité de France 2021 was awarded to the Géodynamo team of ISTerre. This award recognises one or more researchers working (…)

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Published on July 21, 2021

New research by scientists from the VIB-VUB Center for Structural Biology (Belgium), the Radboud University (Netherlands), Institut de Biologie Structurale and The Institut des sciences de la Terre de Grenoble, ISTerre/OSUG (CNRS/IRD/Université Grenoble Alpes/Université Savoie Mont Blanc) (Grenoble) using cryo-electron microscopy now demonstrates that these protein crystal nuclei don’t have to work in isolation: the presence of nearby nuclei can help early-stage protein crystals find their ’shape’.

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Published on June 30, 2021

Networks of researchers, an alliance of experts from various disciplines and a series of international collaborations have identified the cause of the geological disaster that occurred in India in February 2021. More than 200 people were killed or reported missing, following an avalanche of rock and ice. What preventative measures can be put in place to ensure that such a disaster does not happen again?
On Sunday 7 February, in India, a torrent of water, rocks and ice gushed down the (…)

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Published on March 17, 2021

This year again, the CNRS rewards researchers whose work has made an outstanding contribution to the advancement and influence of research.
In this 2021 edition, two ISTerre researchers were awarded a medal by the CNRS:
Jérôme WEISS CNRS silver medal winner CNRS Research Director at ISTerre Research team : Fault Mechanics Jérôme Weiss has received the CNRS silver medal which rewards the originality, quality and importance of his work recognized nationally and internationally. Jerome (…)

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Published on December 17, 2020

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