In this month’s issue of Nature Physics, Dorian Bouchet proposes a popular science article about the Fisher information. This quantity, which is a cornerstone in statistical estimation theory, also emerges an an important quantity in different areas of physics.

Emmanuel Siéfert, who joined LIPhy this year as a CNRS research fellow, has just been awarded a “Starting” grant from the European Research Council (ERC), which provides substantial funding for projects by young researchers.

Scientists at LIPhy have demonstrated the existence of a behavioral transition when the environment of zebrafish becomes too crowded, showing the extent to which the collective school structure resists the structural complexity of the surrounding environment.

A new implantable pancreatic bioreactor device has been developed by the SyNaBi team in the TIMC laboratory (Translational Innovation in Medicine and Complexity), in collaboration with Grenoble Alpes University Hospital and the LIPhy (3D printing) and LBFA (Laboratory of Fundamental and Applied Bioenergetics) laboratories.

Arthur Genthon (MPIPKS, Dresde, Germany)

Daniel Riveline (IGBMC, Strasbourg)