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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...
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...
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...
Campus
18.01.21
A master plan for the X and IP Paris campus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-kCsOaKrzE Improving campus life and the layout of the premises is a priority of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris...
Entrepreneurship
10.12.20
Innovation in Covid-19 times: Codi, the new work from home alternative
Christelle Rohaut, alumni of the Ingénieur Polytechnicien Program, says the innovation competitions she participated in while studying at l’X were a...
Research
07.12.20
MAR1: First climate and environment report in the Mediterranean region
Credit: SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE In order to assess the best available scientific knowledge on climate and...
Institution
03.12.20
Former French President Giscard d’Estaing (X44) dies at 94
With the death of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (1926-2020), the line of presidents of the French Republic who were polytechnicians died out for the time...
26.11.20
U7+ Alliance Presidential Summit 2020: Intergenerational justice high up on the agenda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp6egT_v5lw École Polytechnique is a founding member of the U7+ Alliance, which has been launched under the patronage...
Entrepreneurship
26.11.20
The Executive Master on the move for high-impact innovation
The commitment of the Executive Master community to the promotion of high-impact technological innovation was illustrated on two occasions in November...
Research
05.11.20
ERC Synergy: Antarctic Climate and the Role of the Hippocampus in the Brain
Photo credit: left: NASA - GSFC Scientific Visualization Studio Antarctica; right: images of colored neurons observed by the collaboration of the...