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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn_weDO1h6AStemming from a partnership initiated in 2019 with Google Arts & Culture, which specializes in virtual visits of museums and the visualization of works in high definition, in March 2021, École Polytechnique unveils seven exhibitions from the reserves o…

Figure extracted from the publication: (a) Relaxation of the precession motion of a magnetic dipole (i.e. a magnet), (b) nutation motion superimposed on the precession.An incomplete modelWhen a magnetic field is applied to a magnetic dipole (a compass for example), the axis of the dipole starts to …

Every year, the Useful Fictions international summer school, initiated by the Arts & Sciences Chair and now run by the Useful Fictions Lab programme at the SPIRAL interdisciplinary centre, brings together artists, researchers and citizens around a common theme. The fifth edition, devoted to the atm…

Long a boring cash-cow for a pharmaceutical industry in search of highly profitable blockbusters, vaccines experienced a spectacular return to favour with the Covid-19 pandemic. The speed of development of VOC-2 SARS vaccines has been astonishing, with the first products becoming available less tha…

Valeo and École polytechnique engineering school announce they have renewed their research and innovation partnership for two years, with the aim of supporting innovative projects in the field of new low-carbon mobility. These projects will be eligible to take part in the X-CORP program for busines…

École Polytechnique is embarking on a major educational and technical transformation with the introduction of virtual laboratories using the Jupyter ecosystem. This project draws on an active community and an innovative, reproducible and sovereign infrastructure, positioning the School as a leader …

On December 1, 2025, École Polytechnique welcomed a ministerial delegation from the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire for discussions focusing on strengthening academic and scientific collaborations between École Polytechnique and the Félix Houphouët-Boigny National Polytechnic Institute. During their visi…

Christophe Josserand, CNRS researcher and professor at École Polytechnique, and Qiang Du, Fu Foundation Professor of Applied Mathematics at Columbia University, spent three months as visiting professors at the respective other institution in the United States and France. As they crossed paths at Éc…

Of the eight start-ups incubated at École Polytechnique and present at VivaTech 2025, five have been selected for the Tech for Change 2025 program, which recognizes start-ups helping to address major contemporary environmental and societal challenges. Six École Polytechnique-incubated start-ups fea…

A dedicated Welcome Desk for international students and scientists (BasiX) provides support and assistance to international students and scientists who join École Polytechnique. The BasiX department offers help with formalities linked to the arrival in France (residence permit, medical insurance, o…