Discovered in the late 1970s, archaea are unicellular organisms with characteristics of both bacteria and more complex organisms. Once cast aside, advances in molecular biology and genomics have brought them back into the spotlight. In the laboratories of École Polytechnique, several research teams are exploring the scientific potential of these microorganisms.
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École Polytechnique’s Foundation (FX) is launching its third fund-raising campaign with a strong commitment to “Serving Science”. It aims to raise 200 million euros over the next 5 years from private individuals and companies, and has announced that it has already raised over 40% of this target.
École Polytechnique is launching the first season of a series of mini-videos on its achievements in favor of sustainability, as part of its Climate plan. The first episode is devoted to the audio tour of the campus offered to cycle ingénieur polytechnicien students as an introduction to a new multi-disciplinary course on sustainability
Since welcoming its first Moroccan student in 1948, École Polytechnique has fostered strong academic and scientific partnerships with institutions in Morocco. This longstanding collaboration was highlighted by the invitation extended to École Polytechnique’s President, Laura Chaubard, to join the French presidential delegation on a state visit to Morocco from October 28 to 30, 2024.
THE ENTREPRENEUR AND THE START-UP. Philippe Le Borgne, co-founder and CEO of RunBlind, has a multi entrepreneurial background in different fields such...
In an article published in the journal Science, an international collaboration involving researchers from the Centre for Theoretical Physics (CPHT*) proposes a tool for estimating the difficulty of many problems yet to be solved, as well as the effectiveness of methods developed to tackle them, including quantum algorithms.
Discover GenHack, the student challenge of the ‘Stress-test, Risk Management and Financial Steering’ Chair of École Polytechnique, focusing on generative models applied to environmental problems. In 2024, the third edition focused on a problem linked to maize cultivation.
Physicist and CNRS research director at the Laboratory of Condensed Matter for Physics, Claude Weisbuch has been honored by the French Academy of Sciences.
École Polytechnique is strengthening its ties with two first-class academic and scientific institutions in India. During her visit to India in early October 2024, École Polytechnique’s President, Laura Chaubard, signed two student exchange agreements - the first with the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) and the second with the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi).
Madeleine Kubasch receives the L'Oréal-Unesco Young Talents prize for women in science for her doctoral work on mathematical models of epidemic propagation at the Center for Applied Mathematics (CMAP*) and INRAE's Mathematics and Informatics Applied from the Genome to the Environment (MaIAGE) unit.
Alain Aspect, Professor at École Polytechnique and the Institut d'Optique Graduate School-Université Paris-Saclay, Emeritus Director of Research at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and 2022 winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, gave a lecture on “Quantum entanglement and the non-locality revolution”. This talk was part of the fiftieth anniversary of the X1974 graduating class and the Science Festival at École Polytechnique.
With over 10,000 m2 of floor space, the Mechanical Hub building brings together research laboratories in solid, fluid mechanics and livingmechanics from École Polytechnique and ENSTA Paris. Positioned near the new ONERA site, this strategic facility promotes academic excellence internationally.
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