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On September 10 and 11, École Polytechnique hosted the world premiere demonstration of the project called ROSS (for Remotely Operated Service at Sea)...

Xenon plasma, gas mixture consisting of electrons, ions and atoms, is of real interest for space propulsion. By ejecting gas at a speed ten times...

Distinguished by the Raimond Castaing Prize of the French Microscopy Society in 2019, Emmanuel Beaurepaire will be awarded the 2020 European...

Faced with the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic, the French start-up ecosystem has been deprived of its two big spring events: the Paris Saclay...

How to monitor continuously but without disturbing them charged particle beams like those used in proton therapy? By interposing as little material as...

Sketch of a one-atom Josephson junction (up left), an Andreev reflexion (bottom left) and a Schrödinger cat synthetized by quantum Zeno dynamics...

The chirped-pulse amplification (CPA) technique allows lasers to become ever more powerful and to take up unprecedented challenges . As soon as the...

Crédit photo : Bengt Nyman - (CC BY 2.0) Invented in 1985 by Donna Strickland and Gérard Mourou , the Chirped Pulse Amplification method (CPA) paved...

Distinguished by numerous awards and honors, Gérard Mourou was recently elected as a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Winner...