Scientists are going back to the origin of everything. The National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) will pilot a research programme, “Origins”, funded with 45.5 million euros over seven years, to develop technologies and instruments that will be used to investigate the origins of life, according to according to a press release published this Monday.
The priority research program and equipment (PEPR), which is part of the France 2030 plan, must help answer questions about the emergence of life on Earth and the possibility of it existing in other parts of the Universe.
“Have multiple impacts on our daily lives”
The expected innovations must remove “technological obstacles” to allow the study of exoplanets, as well as the analysis of samples from bodies in the solar system or the study of the internal dynamics of the Earth. But also the transition between organic chemistry and living beings, the development of computing for digital simulations and even robotics.
The program is based on the transfer of these innovations to industrial associations, the creation of start-ups and the training of scientists and engineers.
According to the CNRS, the work carried out within the framework of this program, which draws on knowledge in physics, chemistry, electronics and mathematics, “could one day have multiple impacts on our daily lives.”
The CNRS will request researchers from eight of the ten scientific fields it covers, as well as from 33 national establishments.
Source: BFM TV
