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Entrepreneurship
24.02.21
Focus on l'X start-ups dedicated to cryptoassets and blockchain in the wake of the Bitcoin-mania
Is the American entrepreneur Elon Musk, who has shaken up the automotive and space sectors, ready to take on the highly regulated world of finance and...
Research
23.02.21
The blockchain promises are more relevant than the Bitcoin frenzy - Julien Prat, Research Director (CNRS), Crest
The price of bitcoin has experienced a new surge exceeding 50,000 dollars after the car manufacturer Tesla and its founder Elon Musk declared their...
23.02.21
X research in nuclear power: Between fusion and fission
March 11, 2021 will mark the 10th anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear accident, which occurred as a result of a tsunami following an earthquake on...
Research
23.02.21
Discovery of a stellar graveyard
Credits : Nasa/Hubble Globular clusters are extremely dense stellar systems in which the stars are very close together. Eduardo Vitral (X2015) and...
Research
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...