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Every year, the European Research Council supports ground-breaking research and scientific excellence. In 2024, Charles Baroud, from École Polytechnique’s Hydrodynamics Laboratory (LadHyX), Olivier Gossner, from the Centre for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST) and Joris van der Hoeven fr…

The Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence & Advanced Visual Computing is first in its category, as in 2023. The MSc&T Energy Environnement: Science, Technology and Management is second in its category, moving up one place. Finally, the MSc&T Internet of Things: Innovation and Management, ranke…

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 MSc&T « Visual and Creative Artificial Intelligence » ranks first in its category, the MSc&T « Energy and Environment: Science, Technology & Management » ranks second in its category, and the MSc&T « Internet of Things: Innovation and Management » ranks third in the Innovation Management catego…

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.

When they founded the start-up Jane in 2023, Simon Heurtebise and Nathan Bouldoires wanted to be part of an increasingly significant initiative: collective self-consumption. With their software, they simplify the administrative management of these complex projects and thus contribute to the green t…

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…

Philippe Tibi (X77), a professor of economics at École Polytechnique, has been leading an initiative since 2019, at the request of the French authorities, to mobilize private capital for the financing of disruptive technological innovation. He has just been tasked with overseeing the next phase of …

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…