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26.04.20
COVID-19: Researchers and Laboratories are taking initiatives in numbers
Laboratories from École Polytechnique have undertaken numerous research projects in order to contribute to the current fight against the COVID-19...
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15.04.20
Neutrino quantum oscillations makes the cover of Nature
Kamioka Observatory, ICRR (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research), The University of Tokyo The T2K experiment in Japan studies neutrinos and antineutrinos...
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14.04.20
Prevent financial depression through narratives
By enlarging the scope of usual economical models to integrate interacations between households, retroactive loops and the notion of confidence...
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02.04.20
Covid-19 : Group testing, key for a faster recovery
A major risk exists that, once the pandemic slows down or appears to be under control and lockdown measures are lifted, new waves of Covid-19 reappear...
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26.03.20
Landry Bretheau, winner of the 2020 Nicholas Kurti Science Prize
Sketch of a one-atom Josephson junction (up left), an Andreev reflexion (bottom left) and a Schrödinger cat synthetized by quantum Zeno dynamics...
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19.03.20
Labs and Research: Ensuring Continuity
Following the instructions from the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, laboratory activities (including that of doctoral...
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18.03.20
Covid-19 underlines China’s footprint in global value chains
The Covid-19 pandemic which is still spreading worldwide has already had huge economic consequences. It has also highlighted China’s growing footprint...
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20.02.20
Lasers: the still very promising prospects of CPA
The chirped-pulse amplification (CPA) technique allows lasers to become ever more powerful and to take up unprecedented challenges. As soon as the...
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17.02.20
Supernova reproduction in lab
Crédit : ESO/L. Calçada In 1987, in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a supernova (SN1987A) explodes. Being very close to Earth, this supernova has been...
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13.02.20
École Polytechnique and Cisco united for the Internet of tomorrow
Following several years of fruitful collaboration, École Polytechnique and Cisco signed an agreement to develop their academic and research...
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10.02.20
Launch of the Solar Orbiter satellite
The Solar Orbiter satellite, before its integration into the Atlas V rocket. Credit: ESA The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter mission took off...
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28.01.20
Chirped Pulse Amplification: 35 years later, still untapped potentials
Crédit photo : Bengt Nyman - (CC BY 2.0) Invented in 1985 by Donna Strickland and Gérard Mourou, the Chirped Pulse Amplification method (CPA) paved...