The collective scientific student project "Destiny", carried out within the Student Space Center of l'X, was selected after the presentation made by students in ESA’s ESTEC technical center in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, in November 2018, by the REXUS/BEXUS program to be flown on a stratospheric balloon in October 2019.

An X researcher is involved in producing the first electron guide in graphene. As an optical fiber, it preserving their quantum character. This new electronic optics tool could be integrated with future quantum technologies and is published in Physical Review Letters the November 22, 2019.

The giant telescope of the H.E.S.S. has detected for the first time the very high energy gamma rays emitted by an astronomical cataclysm. Involving researchers from the Leprince-Ringuet Laboratory for Particle Physics and Astrophysics, this discovery is published in Nature on November 20, 2019.

On November 11th, the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Grandes Écoles French Double Degree Program (FDDP), celebrated its 20th anniversary. École Polytechnique is part of the longest running academic collaboration between France and Singapore.

On November 8, students of École Polytechnique rekindled the flame on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Arc de Triomphe. On November 11, they also participated in the commemorations alongside the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron.

Applications are open to join the École Polytechnique's start-up incubator X-Up. Entrepreneurs can apply until December 15.