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ThrustMe has been awarded a contract from the European Space Agency to demonstrate the world’s first iodine electric propulsion system in space. Founded in 2017 by Ane Aanesland, Director of Research  at CNRS, and Dmytro Rafalskyi, researcher at the Laboratory of Plasma Physics (LLP X-CN…

An optical coherence tomography device has been inaugurated at the Optics and Biosciences Laboratory. It will allow three-dimensional imaging at the micrometre scale for research on heritage and ancient materials.

Total synthesis enables the preparation of compounds of interest. It most often targets biologically functional complex molecules, generally natural substances that are difficult to access in nature, and thus responds to strategic and methodological challenges. The total syntheses developed in the …

As part of the institution’s strategic partnership with Total, École Polytechnique has approved the creation of a new center for innovation and research into carbon-free energy solutions.This implementation lays the foundation for an innovation park bringing together private and public resear…

An interdisciplinary consortium of scientists from the Institut Pasteur, École Polytechnique, the Institut Curie, Inserm, the CNRS and the universities of Paris, Paris-Saclay, Bordeaux and Toulouse have demonstrated a specific interaction between a SARS-CoV-2 protein (Nsp3 protein) unusual DNA or R…

Éric Moulines, Professor at École Polytechnique, Michael Jordan from the University of California, Berkeley, Christian Robert from Université Paris Dauphine-PSL and Gareth Roberts from the University of Warwick are leading the OCEAN project funded by the European Research Council (ERC Synergy Grant…

Electrical response of the "switch" MSL10 of the Arabidopsis thaliana model plant solicited by a continuous stimulation or by a stimulation mimicking the wind. © Frachisse Jean-Marie and Tran Daniel, Institute of Integrative Cell Biology (I2BC*).The adaptation of plant growth to the …

Data from the H.E.S.S. collaboration telescopes, in which Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet is involved, have revealed the most energetic electrons from space ever observed. Their study shows that they come from the environment of the Solar System, a few hundred light-years away. These results are publi…

François Mathey, born in 1941, was a committed chemist from an early age. He took a place at the École Polytechnique (X 1961) and, upon finishing his diploma, moved to the ‘Institute de Recherche en Chimie Appliqué’ from where he submitted his Thèse d’État in 1971. Entitled &lsquo…

The conference brought together the leadership of over 110 universities across the globe to explore challenges and opportunities in line with international higher education in the 21st century. Structured in sessions, each dedicated to a specific mission, the conference revolved around a variety of…

École Polytechnique, through its "Internet of Everything" and "Stress-test, risk management and financial steering" Chairs, and ENSAE Paris have joined forces to organise the "Cyber-risk and Cyber-resilience in Finance and Insurance" conference on 6 June 2024.

Theoretical physicist Carlota Andres and economist Julien Combe are the winners of two ERC Starting Grants supported by Ecole Polytechnique. This funding from the European Research Council helps early-career researchers to build their teams and pursue their most ambitious ideas.

Operational Research (OR) is the science of decision making, mathematical optimisation and modelling. It focuses on the optimal resolution of decision-making problems and the identification and use of the mathematical properties featured by each case. This is the field of research of Mercedes Peleg…

Josselin Garnier, researcher at the Centre for Applied Mathematics (CMAP) and Sandrine Bony, Research Director at the CNRS - Centre national de la recherche scientifique within the Laboratory of Dynamic Meteorology (LMD) are among the 18 scientists newly elected to the French Academy of Sciences.

The two École Polytechnique’s teams ended 3rd and 4th in the prestigious SWERC 2023 programming contest (Southwestern Europe Regional Contest) of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), which took place in Paris. The best of the two will take part in the European EUC 2024 contest i…