Catalogue des films de « Jean-François Ternay »

Quel est l’âge de la Terre ? En répondant à cette question au milieu du XVIIIe siècle, le naturaliste Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon (1707-1788) est allé à l’encontre de la religion mais il a également réalisé ce qui est la première...

The Institut d’astrophysique spatiale at Orsay shares with the NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center the direction of the solar observation satellite SOHO. During one of these observation campaigns (from 27 October to 10 November 2000), the IAS...

Pictures of science are representations which have no sense except with regard to the processes and finalities of their production. What happens to these pictures when they are broadcast in magazines, in films, when they are deprived of the...

Proteins are macromolecules that are the basis of the cell function of living organisms. In order to know their functions, it is indispensable to know their structure since their form conditions their functions. X-ray diffraction crystallography...

Dans la baie des Veys, en Normandie, se trouve un des trois grands centres normands d'élevage d'huîtres. Celui-ci est menacé par une concentration excessive de vers, les lanices (l'espèce concernée ici est Lanicé conchylia). Bien...

The centre of the earth is essentially made up of liquid iron. The rotation of our planet creates movements in this liquid mass which conducts electricity and so it generates the earth’s magnetic field. Scientists have noted that this magnetic...

Five researchers (Luc Montagnier, Daniel Prieur, Pierre Chambon, Alain Proschiantz and Christo Goridis) reveal the reasons why animal models are used in scientific research to understand man. These models, such as bacteria, thread worms, fruit...

"Expresso" (Experiment for regional sources and sinks of oxidants) is the name of an international mission whose objective was to study the emissions of the tropical ecosystems and their transformation in the lower atmosphere which leads to the...

Imaging machines, the new tools for medical diagnosis that reveal the body in depth, are presented while being used in hospital by doctors and researchers in various specialities. Orsay hospital, thanks to its cyclotron, can produce radioactive...

Presentation of the department of life sciences at CNRS : 3,300 researchers explore the mechanisms of life (from the biosphere to the grouping of atoms) in 361 operational structures. The film is constructed in four parts that deal with the...