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Enceladus is one of the moons of the planet Saturn. A study led by researchers at the Plasma Physics Laboratory (LPP*) reveals that the magnetic interaction between the two bodies extends over much greater distances than previously known—more than 500,000 kilometers. This finding was made possible …

The Gaspard Monge Visiting Professor Program allows top-level researchers from around the world to join École Polytechnique for a period of 4 to 12 months to conduct research in one of the institution’s 23 laboratories and teach as a visiting professor. The program is supported by the Fondation de …

In December, Gauthier Vermandel was awarded the Banque de France's 2023 "Young Researchers in Green Finance" prize for his work on the impact of the carbon tax on financial markets.

École Polytechnique commitment for gender equality constitutes the grounds for building an internal diverse environment that faces current social challenges.As part of its commitment to gender equality in the workplace, École Polytechnique has established a new action plan for 2024-2027, approved b…

For the start of the 2021 academic year, the "Personalised reconstruction of the tumour process" teaching sponsorship offers third-year students of the Polytechnique engineering cyclethe opportunity to identify the "Achilles heel" of tumour cells from breast cancer. Each year, t…

How much of the inequalities in our wealth, health, and family planning can we explain with our current statistical models and data? This is one of the questions that Felix Tropf, Assistant Professor at the Centre for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST*) wishes to answer with his FINDME pr…

“Recent changes in the climate are widespread, rapid, and intensifying, and unprecedented in thousands of years” Sixth Assessment Report, Working group I – The physical Science Basis @Karina Von Schuckman   Context According to the recent IPCC 6th asse…

Context "Human activities, mainly through greenhouse gas emissions, have unequivocally contributed to global warming, with the average global surface temperature between 2011 and 2020 1.1°C higher than in the period 1850-1900" (IPCC 7th Report, 2023). logo Genhack 2024 Agriculture's expo…

Context "Human activities, mainly through greenhouse gas emissions, have unequivocally contributed to global warming, with the average global surface temperature between 2011 and 2020 1.1°C higher than in the period 1850-1900" (IPCC 7th Report, 2023). logo Genhack 2025 Urban areas are incr…

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.

X66 and CNRS Research Director at the Solid Mechanics Laboratory (LMS) between 1973 and 2010, Gérard Gary has just been awarded the John Rinehart Prize for his work on the dynamic behavior of materials.

Distinguished by numerous awards and honors, Gérard Mourou was recently elected as a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).Winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics in October 2018 with Canadian Donna Strickland for having jointly developed a method for generating high-intensity, …

Donna Strickland, Tibor Juhasz, Ron Kurtz, Detao Du and Gérard Mourou are recognized for applying ultrafast lasers to treat eye diseases. This is an example where basic research has unexpectedly led to an important tool for society.

The winners of this 13th edition of the Gerondeau - Safran Prize convinced the jury with their innovations in the fields of health and construction. They each received 15,000 euros to develop their projects.

The 12th edition of the Gerondeau - Safran Prize, awarded on November 9, confirmed the commitment of its founders to long-term entrepreneurship, and rewarded three disruptive start-ups with strong industrial and technological components: Amphitrite, Stratolia and Surge.