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A new monitor for protontherapy
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04.05.20
A new monitor for protontherapy
How to monitor continuously but without disturbing them charged particle beams like those used in proton therapy? By interposing as little material as...
COVID-19: Researchers and Laboratories are taking initiatives in numbers
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26.04.20
COVID-19: Researchers and Laboratories are taking initiatives in numbers
Laboratories from École Polytechnique have undertaken numerous research projects in order to contribute to the current fight against the COVID-19...
Neutrino quantum oscillations makes the cover of Nature
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15.04.20
Neutrino quantum oscillations makes the cover of Nature
Kamioka Observatory, ICRR (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research), The University of Tokyo The T2K experiment in Japan studies neutrinos and antineutrinos...
Prevent financial depression through narratives
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14.04.20
Prevent financial depression through narratives
By enlarging the scope of usual economical models to integrate interacations between households, retroactive loops and the notion of confidence...
Covid-19 : Group testing, key for a faster recovery
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02.04.20
Covid-19 : Group testing, key for a faster recovery
A major risk exists that, once the pandemic slows down or appears to be under control and lockdown measures are lifted, new waves of Covid-19 reappear...
Landry Bretheau, winner of the 2020 Nicholas Kurti Science Prize
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26.03.20
Landry Bretheau, winner of the 2020 Nicholas Kurti Science Prize
Sketch of a one-atom Josephson junction (up left), an Andreev reflexion (bottom left) and a Schrödinger cat synthetized by quantum Zeno dynamics...
Labs and Research: Ensuring Continuity
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19.03.20
Labs and Research: Ensuring Continuity
Following the instructions from the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, laboratory activities (including that of doctoral...
Covid-19 underlines China’s footprint in global value chains
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18.03.20
Covid-19 underlines China’s footprint in global value chains
The Covid-19 pandemic which is still spreading worldwide has already had huge economic consequences. It has also highlighted China’s growing footprint...
Lasers: the still very promising prospects of CPA
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20.02.20
Lasers: the still very promising prospects of CPA
The chirped-pulse amplification (CPA) technique allows lasers to become ever more powerful and to take up unprecedented challenges . As soon as the...
Supernova reproduction in lab
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17.02.20
Supernova reproduction in lab
Crédit : ESO/L. Calçada In 1987, in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a supernova (SN1987A) explodes. Being very close to Earth , this supernova has been...
École Polytechnique and Cisco united for the Internet of tomorrow
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13.02.20
École Polytechnique and Cisco united for the Internet of tomorrow
Following several years of fruitful collaboration, École Polytechnique and Cisco signed an agreement to develop their academic and research...
Launch of the Solar Orbiter satellite
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10.02.20
Launch of the Solar Orbiter satellite
The Solar Orbiter satellite, before its integration into the Atlas V rocket. Credit: ESA The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter mission took off...