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The 58th Paris International Agricultural Show took place from February 26 to March 6. On this occasion, the French government announced the launch of a new program, Agri20, to support innovative startups in the sector. Take a look at five X AgriTech startups : Thegreendata, Proteme, Fruition Scien…

École Polytechnique hosted the 8th edition of Paris-Saclay Spring 2025, the annual entrepreneurship and research event on the Plateau de Saclay, one of the world's leading innovation and entrepreneurship hubs. Eight start-ups supported by X-UP, the École polytechnique's incubator, or stemming from …

Scientists from the LHCb experiment at CERN, including a team from the Leprince-Ringuet Laboratory (LLR*), gathered for a workshop at École Polytechnique to discuss how to improve the LHCb particle physics experiment over the next decade.

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Pascal Chabert, CNRS research director at the Plasma Physics Laboratory and Professor at École Polytechnique, has just been awarded a CNRS silver medal. It recognises his significant work in the field of plasma physics, with applications for microelectronics and space propulsion.

The Best Young Economist Award, created in 2000 by the French newspaper Le Monde and the Cercle des économistes, singles out the work of a French economist, or an economist working in France, under the age of 41. It acknowledges the academic excellence of the candidates, but also aims to highlight …

The start-up PayFit, co-founded by Florian Fournier (X2013), has announced that it has raised €254 million, valuing it at over $2 billion and making it the 23rd French unicorn.

A study on the mechanical properties of white blood cells has been carried out in collaboration between the Hydrodynamics Laboratory at École Polytechnique and the Institute of Physical Chemistry at Université Paris-Saclay. It makes the cover of the latest issus of Biophysical Journal.

The final of Institut Polytechnique de Paris' Ma Thèse en 180 secondes competition took place on Wednesday April 2 at École Polytechnique. Amélie Kies, doctoral student at the Applied Optics Laboratory (LOA*), Laure Corazza, doctoral student at the Dynamic Meteorology Laboratory (LMD*), Maxime Vigo…

François Levin has just been awarded the Prix Michel Serres de thèse interdisciplinaire 2025 for his doctorate at l’X Interdisciplinary Laboratory (LINX*). His thesis is entitled “L'intelligence artificielle au défi de ses critiques philosophiques”.

The goal of the QCMX Lab is to explore the quantum properties of electronic circuits and matter. Its strategy consists in coupling superconducting circuits normally used to process quantum information to materials in order to probe their quantum properties and discover new electronic states of matt…

The two researchers from the Center for Theoretical Physics (CPHT*) were interviewed on France Culture’s “La Science au Labo” series for their work on extending the holographic principle, which could lead to a theory of quantum gravity.

The Physics Department of Ecole Polytechnique includes both Teaching and Research. On the one hand, it takes in charge many teaching duties, both for the élèves de l'Ecole Polytechnique, and for the students of the Master Programs. On the other hand, it federates ten laboratories, covering a rich s…

Physics laboratories at Ecole PolytechniquePhysics research is extensively developed on the campus, through eleven laboratories within its research center and partnerships with numerous institutes, particularly on the Saclay plateau.The physics activities of the School’s research center are organiz…

After the success of Ilog, created in 1987 under the aegis of INRIA and then bought by IBM, Pierre Haren (X73) co-founded Causality Link, a start-up that uses AI and machine learning to better understand the causal links between various economic indicators and market events. Pierre Haren, a start-u…