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Fundamental Research Division
The DRF at the CEA assemble approximately 6,000 scientists since January 2016.
Scientists have performed a thorough analysis of promising silicon-based electrode technology with regard to Li-ion battery decay in the course of charge/discharge cycles. Oversaw by the CEA, this project was carried out through a balanced partnership between three academic and as many industry partners.
Using optical rather than electrical technology to write to MRAM magnetic storage media would unlock a thousandfold speed increase and slash power consumption by a factor of 100. Spice aims to tackle this challenge and promote the use of non-volatile memory near processor cores. A computing revolution in perspective...
According to an international collaboration involving the LSCE, seasonal variations in ocean acidity will be more pronounced at the end of the century than today and could even double. The seasonality of pH, until now considered favorable to the adaptation of marine organisms to global warming, could then prove to have a deleterious effect. This must now be taken into account in climate models.
The observation by a scientific collective of a thousand far away “elliptical” galaxies is shaking up our knowledge of galaxies. How can they be rich in gas without producing any stars?
Plant stomata open or close in response to their needs, in addition to water stress or pathogen attack. A team from the Biam and its partners have demonstrated the role of the protein AQP in stomatal closure movements.
The African exodus of our species, Homo sapiens, has just been pushed back by at least 60,000 years in comparison to what we previously thought. This now places the date at around 177,000 - 194,000 years ago. This international study, which includes the LSCE, is based on the dating of the oldest modern human fossil found outside of Africa (Israel).
A team from the BIG Institute has just demonstrated that uranium is not necessarily toxic to plants.
Continuing the analysis and exploitation of the biggest database compiled on the planktonic ecosystem, the teams from the CEA, CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research), EMBL (European Molecular Biology Laboratory) and the French graduate school ENS, among others[1], have just reached a new milestone by analysing the expression of over 100 million genes
Hydrosilanes are essential chemical compounds for the silicon chemical industry. A team from the Iramis has shown that they could be advantageously replaced by silyl formates, which are potentially regenerable at will from formic acid, a substance that can be synthesized by recycling CO2.
The hypothesis of a smallpox re-emergence cannot be ruled out. Researchers from the IBS are working on its cousin, vaccinia.
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CEA is a French government-funded technological research organisation in four main areas: low-carbon energies, defense and security, information technologies and health technologies. A prominent player in the European Research Area, it is involved in setting up collaborative projects with many partners around the world.