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The final of the world's most prestigious programming contest, the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), took place from November 6 to 11 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. École’s Polytechnique’s finalists had been preparing for this event for months.

The 2023 edition of the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas, the world's largest tech exhibition, took place from January 5 to 8 with a smaller delegation of French start-ups, including three young companies supported by the Drahi-X Novation Center, the incubator of the École Polytechnique, as we…

Petit Côté : Low fat indulgence  Petit Côté, the leading brand of sweet cakes made with vegetables, is an alternative to the current offer of take-out snacks that are often highly caloric or frustrating if they are more dietetic. To let you hit your sweet spot, the start-up cre…

Focusing on a new Covid-19 detection method, endothelial diseases and chromosomal abnormalities in oocytes, the winning projects from the 2020 call for projects of the "Biomedical Innovation Program" have just been announced. This program, which has been supported by the Bettencourt Schue…

13 Collaborative Scientific Projects selected by the education and research departments from among the 111 CSPs of the X2020 were submitted on September 12 to a jury of academics and business representatives. Three projects were awarded during this final examination.

ThrustMe has been awarded a contract from the European Space Agency to demonstrate the world’s first iodine electric propulsion system in space. Founded in 2017 by Ane Aanesland, Director of Research  at CNRS, and Dmytro Rafalskyi, researcher at the Laboratory of Plasma Physics (LLP X-CN…

An optical coherence tomography device has been inaugurated at the Optics and Biosciences Laboratory. It will allow three-dimensional imaging at the micrometre scale for research on heritage and ancient materials.

Total synthesis enables the preparation of compounds of interest. It most often targets biologically functional complex molecules, generally natural substances that are difficult to access in nature, and thus responds to strategic and methodological challenges. The total syntheses developed in the …

As part of the institution’s strategic partnership with Total, École Polytechnique has approved the creation of a new center for innovation and research into carbon-free energy solutions.This implementation lays the foundation for an innovation park bringing together private and public resear…

An interdisciplinary consortium of scientists from the Institut Pasteur, École Polytechnique, the Institut Curie, Inserm, the CNRS and the universities of Paris, Paris-Saclay, Bordeaux and Toulouse have demonstrated a specific interaction between a SARS-CoV-2 protein (Nsp3 protein) unusual DNA or R…

Éric Moulines, Professor at École Polytechnique, Michael Jordan from the University of California, Berkeley, Christian Robert from Université Paris Dauphine-PSL and Gareth Roberts from the University of Warwick are leading the OCEAN project funded by the European Research Council (ERC Synergy Grant…

Electrical response of the "switch" MSL10 of the Arabidopsis thaliana model plant solicited by a continuous stimulation or by a stimulation mimicking the wind. © Frachisse Jean-Marie and Tran Daniel, Institute of Integrative Cell Biology (I2BC*).The adaptation of plant growth to the …

Data from the H.E.S.S. collaboration telescopes, in which Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet is involved, have revealed the most energetic electrons from space ever observed. Their study shows that they come from the environment of the Solar System, a few hundred light-years away. These results are publi…

François Mathey, born in 1941, was a committed chemist from an early age. He took a place at the École Polytechnique (X 1961) and, upon finishing his diploma, moved to the ‘Institute de Recherche en Chimie Appliqué’ from where he submitted his Thèse d’État in 1971. Entitled &lsquo…

The conference brought together the leadership of over 110 universities across the globe to explore challenges and opportunities in line with international higher education in the 21st century. Structured in sessions, each dedicated to a specific mission, the conference revolved around a variety of…