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Quasar jets: cosmic particle accelerators
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17.06.20
Quasar jets: cosmic particle accelerators
Composite image of Centaurus A, revealing the jets emerging from the central black hole of the galaxy, and the associated gamma emission. © ESO/WFI...
Lasers for understanding magnetic instabilities in astrophysics
Research
15.06.20
Lasers for understanding magnetic instabilities in astrophysics
Ion radiography of Weibel instability: protons accelerated by laser-plasma interaction in a first target (left) pass through a second target, itself...
European Microscopy Life Sciences Awards 2020 winner : Emmanuel Beaurepaire
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15.06.20
European Microscopy Life Sciences Awards 2020 winner : Emmanuel Beaurepaire
Distinguished by the Raimond Castaing Prize of the French Microscopy Society in 2019, Emmanuel Beaurepaire will be awarded the 2020 European...
Researchers identify an enzyme essential for development
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26.05.20
Researchers identify an enzyme essential for development
Representation of the three-dimensional structure of the human METTL5-TRMT112 complex and the phenotype observed in the fly following inactivation of...
Two young PhDs rewarded for their theses
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18.05.20
Two young PhDs rewarded for their theses
Optimisation of the shape of a 3-d hydraulic system for maximising heat transfer. Defended in 2019, the theses of Florian Feppon, a young researcher...
ICUBAM: Algorithms for health
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15.05.20
ICUBAM: Algorithms for health
One of the main challenges of the health crisis caused by the COVID-19 epidemic was and still is the availability of intensive care unit (ICU) beds...
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
Research
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
Research
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...