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The energy transition is a major challenge in the fight against global warming. Recycling part of the carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted by human activities is one of the solutions, along with the development of renewable energies, energy…

The MAESTRO project led by Sandrine Bony at the Dynamic Meteorology Laboratory has just received an Advanced grant from the European Research Council. The aim is to better understand the organisation of clouds and convection…

There are many ways to do mathematics. The one that motivates Javier Fresán is to start with simple questions, relatively easy to explain to a neophyte, but which turn out to be rich and full of hidden structures when an educated eye…

Camille Duprat (Hydrodynamics Laboratory), Roland Rathelot (Centre for Research in Economics and Statistics), Balt Van Rees (Centre for Theoretical Physics) and Maks Ovsjanikov (Computer Science Laboratory of the École Polytechnique) are…

Artificial intelligence, and in particular the field of statistical learning (machine learning), has made considerable progress in recent years. Image recognition, speech recognition and machine translation algorithms are examples of…

Semiconductors, such as silicon, are a well-known class of materials to physicists whose properties enabled the revolution in electronic technologies during the second half of the 20th century. Recently, a new family of materials has…

Awarded by the European Research Council (ERC), Starting Grants aim to support researchers at the beginning of their careers who have already done excellent work and who are ready to work independently as leaders of research teams. This…

Invested in combining mathematics and interface modeling, Christophe Josserand, CNRS researcher and professor at École Polytechnique, and Qiang Du, professor of Applied Mathematics and member of the Data Science Institute at Columbia…

100 years ago, we thought we lived in a finite, static universe. This was without counting on the work of a brilliant physicist who published in 1922 the first founding article of modern cosmology: Alexander Friedmann.Before the Russian…

During a solar flare, our star ejects gigantic bursts of particles and radiation. At the heart of this phenomenon, magnetic reconnection acts as a particle accelerator: the changing topology of the magnetic field lines that form the foot…