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L’X at VivaTech: attracting talent and establishing itself as a key player in global innovation Philippe Hazet, head of the École Polytechnique X-UP incubator, outlines the key considerations behind our participation in the 2026 edition of the Viva Technology trade fair. This major global event for innovation and new technologies will take

Testing electrodynamics with extreme light intensities Using high-intensity lasers, an international team involving researchers from the Applied Optics Laboratory (LOA*) and the Intense Lasers Laboratory (LULI*) will probe the behavior of light at an unprecedented level, at the limits of current quantum

2025 Nobel Prize in Physics: how the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling inspires the X today This October 8th, the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to a trio of physicists for “the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.” Among the laureates is Michel Devoret, a researcher