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A study carried out at Ecole Polytechnique's Hydrodynamics Laboratory by Sophie Ramananarivo has drawn inspiration from kirigami, the Japanese art of paper cutting, to study materials that can deform when immersed in a fluid.In the fable…

Aleix Güell, researcher at Laboratory of Physics of Interfaces and Thin Films, has been awarded an ERC Proof of Concept grant. It will allow him to explore the commercial potential of an imaging technique that combines scanning probe…

Alain Aspect, CNRS Senior Scientist Emeritus and Professor at Ecole Polytechnique has been named an Optica Honorary Member. Optica is the leading professional association in optics and photonics.Optica has named Alain Aspect Honorary…

The first mathematical runtime analysis of NSGA-II, a widely-used algorithm for optimization problems, has been performed by a collaboration including the Computer Science Laboratory and presented at AAAI, one of the major conferences in…

Located in Providence, Rhode Island (United States), Brown University is a leading Ivy League research university and home to world-renowned faculty. The institution's commitment to academic excellence, rigorous research, and the service…

In a research paper published in Nucleic Acids Research, an international collaboration involving the Optics and Biosciences Laboratory shows the presence of nucleic acid knots called G-quadruplexes in helminth parasites. The researchers…

The "Flights" challenge proposed to use a supervised learning approach to predict the number of passengers based on the date of their reservation and the route of the plane. It was organised jointly by the Data Science Institute and Data…

Euromech, the European Mechanics Society, has just awarded its two most important prizes to two researchers who were professors in the mechanics department at the Ecole Polytechnique. Patrick Huerre, from the Hydrodynamics Laboratory…

The Mooc "Studying in France: French Intermediate Course B1-B2" produced by the E-learning Department of the École Polytechnique ranks 77th among the 250 Most Popular Online Courses of All Time, established by the Moocs aggregation…

A spin photodiode detects circularly polarised light thanks to a stack of semiconductor and ferromagnetic materials.Electronics is based on an elementary particle, the electron, and in particular on its electrical charge. More recently,…