Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique

Mechanoadaptive nanowire viscoplastic composites with strain-enhanced conductivity for reprocessable bioelectronic interfaces

Bioelectronic interfaces must mechanically conform and adapt to biological tissues while maintaining stable electrical performance during motion and deformation. Existing soft conductors, however, often couple mechanical strain to electrical resistance, accumulate interfacial str...

Integrating hyporheic exchanges into salmonid spawning habitat models—A proof of concept focusing on Atlantic Salmon in Québec, Canada

Abstract Objective Most salmonids use pool–riffle transitions for spawning. The biological explanation appears to be associated with bedform-induced hyporheic exchanges. Despite this apparent link, spawning habitat models still rely on depth, velocity, and bed material grain size...

Comparative performance of reference-based metagenomic tools to identify species-level taxa among families of bacteria: benchmarking Mycobacteriaceae and Neisseriaceae

ABSTRACT Hypotheses concerning the ecology and evolution of bacteria commonly relate to the presence and abundance of species in various settings and conditions. Shotgun metagenomics may address these hypotheses, which previously relied on PCR or culture. However, the problem of...

Influence of the Pore Structure on the Activity and Stability of Non-precious Metal Catalysts for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells

Abstract The activity/performance of non-precious metal catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in fuel cells is critically dependent on the pore structure of the catalyst layer, but a systematic understanding of how micropores and mesopores affect activity and stabilit...

From genetics to migration: emerging insights into salmonid responses to environmental change from NoWPaS 2026

The International Workshop of PhDs and Post-doctoral Fellows on Anadromous Salmonids (NoWPaS) provides a platform for early-career researchers to present and discuss emerging research on salmonid biology. The 2026 meeting, held in Iceland, brought together contributions spanning...

Unveiling Plasmon-Enhanced Localized Fields of Titanium Nitride via Complementary Electron Microscopy Techniques

Abstract Titanium nitride nanoparticles (TiN NPs) are promising alternatives to noble metals for visible-range plasmonic applications, yet their structure–property relationships remain insufficiently understood. Here, we combine ultrafast transmission electron microscopy (UTEM) a...

What SWOT KaRIn can and cannot resolve over first-year pack ice: a backscatter continuum and the geometric detection of leads and ridges in Barrow Strait

The scripts process SWOT Level 2 High-Rate Pixel Cloud (L2_HR_PIXC) granules over a fixed footprint in Barrow Strait, Canadian Arctic Archipelago, across eleven cycles from December 2024 to July 2025. They apply quality control, detrend backscatter across the swath within inciden...

Concealed infrastructures: New perspectives on the sociotechnical production of the urban

Social sciences are now critically focusing on decentering the hegemony of knowledge production. The politics of knowledge and its colonial spatiality are starting to have an impact on how we theorize and study spaces. Against this backdrop, this theme issue brings together a div...

Bridging the Gap Between Earth Sciences and Mechanical Engineering: A Systematic Approach to Model Ground Source Heat Pumps with Deep Boreholes

Modelling of geothermal heat pump systems rarely integrates detailed surface and subsurface components. Simplifications such as neglecting the geothermal gradient, the different geological units intersected by the systems, and/or variable building loads, are common across current...

Projected Spatial Asymmetry of Daytime and Nighttime Temperature Extremes in the Middle East under CMIP6 Warming

The Middle East is one of the world’s most prominent climate-change hotspots, where future warming is expected to intensify both daytime and nighttime temperature extremes in spatially heterogeneous patterns. This study investigates projected asymmetry between daytime and nightti...

Multiple orthoflaviviruses secrete sfRNA in mosquito saliva to promote transmission by inhibiting MDA5-mediated early interferon response

Abstract Numerous orthoflaviviruses transmitted through the bites of different mosquito species infect more than 500 million people annually. Skin infection at the bite site represents a critical and conserved step in transmission and a deeper understanding of this process will p...

Interpretable control rules derived from model predictive control for real-time control in stormwater management

Real-time control of stormwater systems improves flood resilience, yet optimization-based methods, such as model predictive control (MPC), remain difficult to implement due to high computational demands and limited operational transparency. As a result, cities continue to rely on...

Improving reanalysis hub-height wind speeds and wind shear across large spatial domains using near-surface observational networks

Data-driven approaches have emerged as a complementary strategy to physics-based models for learning unresolved processes and parameterization biases in reanalysis products. Most data-driven efforts have focused on improving reanalysis wind speeds at heights where observational d...