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École Polytechnique is continuing to adapt its historic curriculum, the ingénieur polytechnicien program, to contemporary societal and sovereignty issues. A new course entitled “Global Equilibria, Sovereignty and Defense Issues” for 1st year students began on April 18, 2024.

Marc Gillmann is the new Director of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at École Polytechnique. His mission is to consolidate the success, appeal, and influence of the X-Novation Center, which includes École Polytechnique's incubator, as well as a Fablab, and multiple services related to innovation.

At the Laboratory of Condensed Matter for Physics (PMC*), a team has successfully determined the spin-dependent electronic structure linked to the presence of defects in the arrangement of atoms in a semiconductor. This is the first time that this structure has been measured. The results are publis…

Scientists at the Hydrodynamics Laboratory (LadHyX*) and the Laboratoire de physique et mécanique des milieux hétérogènes (PMMH*) have discovered a new phenomenon that allows fibers to be sorted according to their size in microscopic fluid flows.

How to monitor continuously but without disturbing them charged particle beams like those used in proton therapy? By interposing as little material as possible! These are 1.5 micrometers (0.00015cm) membranes on which strips of 50 nanometers are deposited which form the new ultra-thin monitor devel…

From September 2025, École Polytechnique and ENS Louis-Lumière will launch “Extended Cinematography” (XCin), a new Master of Science & Technology, to train image specialists capable of designing tomorrow's tools for virtual production in the viedo and film industries. École Polytechnique thus exten…

Pictures of the nonlinear optical microscope from the Laboratory for Optics and Biosciences (LOB – CNRS, École Polytechnique – Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Inserm) analyzing a historic parchment from the Chartres Library. (Copyright: M. Schmeltz, LOB).The conservation state of parch…

 The conservation state of parchments is typically assessed using invasive and sometimes destructive investigation techniques. Scientists from Université Paris-Saclay, the CNRS, École Polytechnique, and the French Ministry of Culture[1] have developed a non-destructive and non-invasive advanced opt…

Mainly used in numerous industrial sectors such as transport, space, biomedical and defence, additive manufacturing is constantly developing. In order to provide solutions to the problems of developing additive manufacturing within the various industries, twelve CNRS research laboratories and a dep…

An international collaboration involving the Irradiated Solids Laboratory has just published a paper in Physical Review Letters detailing the mechanisms at work for detecting circularly polarised light using spin-optoelectronic devices called spin photodiodes.

In an article published in the journal Science, an international collaboration involving researchers from the Centre for Theoretical Physics (CPHT*) proposes a tool for estimating the difficulty of many problems yet to be solved, as well as the effectiveness of methods developed to tackle them, inc…

While severe accidents are extremely rare in nuclear power plants, it is nonetheless vital to be able to prevent them and, if they do occur, to manage them rigorously to contain their consequences.This is why physicists Mathis Plapp, CNRS research director and Hervé Henry, CNRS researcher, both fro…

Under the supervision of two professors from École Polytechnique and Télécom Paris, Jesus Cumana-Morales, a PhD student from the Czech Technical University, elaborated a scientific project, which has been accepted for publication at the IEEE International MeditCom 2023 Conference. The project had b…

An international consortium, including many researchers from CEA, CNRS, Inserm, École Polytechnique and the universities of Grenoble Alpes, Paris-Saclay and Aix-Marseille, as well as a Max Planck Institute in Germany and Stanford's Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), have deciphered the working m…

Five students from École Polytechnique's "Data and Economics for Public Policy" Master's program have developed an interactive map of public health determinants down to the level of French local authorities, for the French Ministry of the Environment's Ecolab.