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27.09.21
Laser-plasma acceleration awarded by the French Physical Society
The experiments conducted by Cédric Thaury consist in focusing an energetic light beam on a target material in order to create a plasma, i.e. a gas of...
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17.09.21
Inauguration of SIRTA, a new Atmospheric Research Observatory
SIRTA (Site instrumental de recherche par télédétection), an infrastructure supported by the Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace (IPSL*) and the result of...
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16.09.21
Binaural audio synthesis in the world of Star Wars
In the famous Star Wars film released in 1977, a scene shows Luke Skywalker learning the art of Jedi combat from his mentor Obiwan Kenobi. Using his...
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16.09.21
Genetic scissors in the hands of students at the Ecole Polytechnique
For the start of the 2021 academic year, the " Personalised reconstruction of the tumour process" teaching sponsorship offers third-year students of...
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09.09.21
Machine learning for predictive maintenance
Predictive (or positive) maintenance is a major challenge for the railway sector. The "Artificial Intelligence and Positive Maintenance" research...
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03.09.21
A significant step in laser-fusion : reportage at LULI and CPHT
At LULI, laser beams are amplified and used for nuclear fusion experiments, among other studies. On 18 August, the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at...
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29.07.21
Studying quantum gravity with the holographic principle
Mathematical representation of an hyperbolic disk, corresponding to a two-dimensionnal anti-de Sitter space. Charles Marteau won the honorable mention...
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28.07.21
Towards a new antiviral strategy against covid-19?
An interdisciplinary consortium of scientists from the Institut Pasteur, École Polytechnique, the Institut Curie, Inserm, the CNRS and the...
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28.07.21
New equipment for the Leprince-Ringuet laboratory for particle physics and astrophysics
Within the framework of a national funding for very large research infrastructures (TGIR), the Leprince-Ringuet laboratory for particle physics and...
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26.07.21
Students present their work at a major AI conference
The Platform for Artificial Intelligence (PFIA) is a major annual event in artificial intelligence research. It addresses issues and research common...
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23.07.21
Bioinspired student projects
An ecological packaging Léon Rembotte and Thomas Metzger won 3rd prize for tackling an issue related to waste generated by food packaging, which is...
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22.07.21
Grégory Nocton awarded by the Société Chimique de France
Two lines lie at the bottom of the periodic table, the famous classification of chemical elements introduced by Mendeleev. They represent the...