Initiated in 2012, the IGOSat nanosatellite project is entirely designed by students from L2 to thesis, and will be launched by 2019. Since the beginning of the development, more than 250 students have participated in the design, tests and simulations of the mission. It also benefits from the support and expertise of researchers and professors from Paris Diderot University […]
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The APC laboratory is pleased to invite you for the conference “The quest for dark matter with liquid argon“, on September 4, 2018 in Paris at the Université Paris Diderot. We are honoured to welcome on this occasion the Nobel Physics Laureate Art McDonald and Professor Cristiano Galbiati of Princeton University. Gravitational effects that cannot be explained by visible […]
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The SEIS seismometer was turned on to its nominal channel for the first time in space since InSight took off on May 5. This is to perform a health test of the instrument during the cruise phase. All data received on Earth are consistent with those expected and InSight therefore brings a perfectly healthy instrument to Mars. Since the […]
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On July 6, 2018, the team of researchers working on geotechnical and archaeological applications of geoparticles, arrived at the site of Apollonia, in northern Greece, near Thessaloniki. The Labex UnivEarthS actively participates in this project through the project I2: Geoparticles. The project received funding from the Interdisciplinary Mission under the reference ARCHé (Archeology with Cosmic Rays, to probe Hellenic tumuli). […]
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In 2013, ESA’s Planck mission unveiled a new image of the cosmos: the capture of microwave radiation generated at the beginning of the universe over the entire sky. This first light emitted by the universe offers a multitude of information on its content, its rate of expansion, and the primordial lumps, precursors of galaxies. The Planck consortium is publishing the […]
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