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16.02.21
A nuclear safety issue: Modeling corium fusion
While severe accidents are extremely rare in nuclear power plants, it is nonetheless vital to be able to prevent them and, if they do occur, to manage...
12.02.21
Priyanka Das Rajkakati (X2013) joins the 2021 Forbes India 30 under 30 list
Priyanka learned about École Polytechnique during her undergraduate studies in Physics at St. Stephen's College in New Delhi, India, and decided to...
Research
12.02.21
Understanding space in laboratory
Their dimensions and distances make most astrophysical phenomena inaccessible to experimentation. To better understand them, researchers use...
Institution
05.02.21
IP Paris launches its digital review « Polytechnique Insights »
Polytechnique Insights, a new free digital publication, covers a broad spectrum of fundamental and applied research topics, drawing on the work...
01.02.21
L’X, the most international among French universities, according to THE
On Thursday, January 28, the Times Higher Education (THE) unveiled its ranking of the most international universities in the world. L'X scores 33rd in...
Research
27.01.21
Salt caverns to store hydrogen?
Deep underground, France hides deposits of crystallized salts over a large part of its territory. In total, more than 20,000km² of salt, hundreds of...
Research
27.01.21
A MOOC on the challenges of renewable energies for the power grid
Variable renewable energies such as wind and solar power are expected to become the main contributors to the world's power systems as a large number...
Campus
27.01.21
X Forum 2021 : Digital networking
Workshops, conferences, interviews and networking sessions have taken place online during these two days dedicated to meetings between students and...
Research
25.01.21
2021, A New Space Odyssey
Space missions will accelerate in 2021, pushing back the limits of this new frontier and our knowledge of the cosmos, but potentially opening up a new...
Research
25.01.21
2021, A New Space Odyssey – Chronology
You will find elow a chronology of space missions in 2021. In space exploration, even more than in other journeys, shedules are subject to change....
Entrepreneurship
25.01.21
2001, A New Space Odyssey and entrepreneurship at l’X
The European Commission, under the impetus of the European Commissioner for the Internal Market, Thierry Breton, has identified space entrepreneurship...
Entrepreneurship
21.01.21
Vaccines, innovation and l’X ecosystem
Long a boring cash-cow for a pharmaceutical industry in search of highly profitable blockbusters, vaccines experienced a spectacular return to favour...