Mis en place depuis 2012, le projet Grippenet.fr s’appuie sur les particuliers pour suivre la situation de la grippe en France. Les données recueillies dans ce cadre alimentent notamment des travaux de recherche menés dans le cadre du projet Harms-Flu, financé par l’ANR depuis fin 2012 et qui vise à améliorer les modèles numériques de propagation de cette maladie.

Until now there has been a consensus of belief in the scientific community that air pollution in the Southern hemisphere began in the industrial period, that is to say less than one hundred years ago. New evidence suggests that it actually dates back to the pre-Columbian civilisations, and to the Incas in particular, who mined Andean copper and silver ores. This...

ANR, in collaboration with its European partners, has just launched a brand new international call for proposals on the ecological aspects of microplastics in the marine environment. This call comes under the Joint Programming Initiative "JPI OCEANS". The deadline for submitting projects is 31st March 2015.

Insects are rich in proteins and fats, and they constitute the basis of the diet of many animals. They have been used in Asian cooking for hundreds of years and today are used by the food industry to produce ingredients that enter into the composition of everyday food products. The cochineal (also known as scale insect or mealybug), for example, produces the natural...

Continuing a fifteen-year collaboration, the CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research) and IPSEN, a private company, announced the creation of a joint laboratory at the end of 2014. Baptised Archi-pex (from "Peptidic architectures and formulations"), this structure will be supported for three years by ANR through the LabCom instrument.