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The 7th edition of the Alloys for Additive Manufacturing Symposium (AAMS) will be held at École polytechnique from September 4 to 6. "It is the first time that this conference will be held in France,” points out Manas Upadhyay, researcher…

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…

The BepiColombo space mission, which left in 2018, made a close encounter with Venus. Many onboard instruments were switched on at the time. Among them, the MSA ion mass spectrometer was designed by the Plasma Physics Laboratory (LPP*),…

On December 12, 2023, the French Academy of Sciences announced the election of 18 new life members, including two researchers from École polytechnique laboratories. Josselin Garnier, researcher at the Center for Applied…

This image, featured on the cover of Biophysical Journal, shows two micrometer-sized cells (in pink and blue) at the end of two micropipettes (the horizontal tubes). These cells are pushed against two vertical glass rods terminated by two…

Suddenly, an intense pain starts in your back, under the ribs, radiating down to your abdomen. It's probably a kidney stone (urinary lithiasis) which, once expelled, will require physico-chemical analysis. The aim is to determine the…

Some 18,000 light-years from Earth, in our own galaxy, lies SS 433. This acronym stands for a pair of stars and a black hole. While this system has long been known to astronomers through the emission of light in the X-ray and radio bands,…

The CNRS Bronze Medal is awarded to researchers who have made a name for themselves as specialists in their field. This distinction represents an encouragement from the CNRS to pursue research that is well underway and already…

Crédit Agricole S.A., École Polytechnique and the École Polytechnique Foundation are launching the International Chair for Teaching and Research in Trustworthy and Responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI), with the aim of contributing to…

As part of the EuroTech Postdoc2 program, l’X invited all postdoctoral researchers participating in the program to get together from April 17-21, 2023, on its campus to meet each other, exchange on their respective research projects and…