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On May 19th, members of the Leprince-Ringuet and OMEGA laboratories received a delegation from the CNRS National Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. This day was also an…

The 2021 First Employment Survey, carried out among the X2014, confirms the School’s performance in terms of the employability of its students most of whom are recruited before the end of their studies.The 2021 edition of the First…

SpaceConnect'21, an event dedicated to the European space community, will take place in a hybrid format on June 24 in Meudon with a strong involvement of the École Polytechnique.Organized under the aegis of the Centre National des Etudes…

The 2021 edition of the First Employment Survey of graduates of the Ingénieur Polytechnicien Program of the École Polytechnique shows that nearly half of them start their careers in companies, mainly in France.Indeed, 47% of graduates…

The 40 centimetre hurdle could be an event in the Micro-Olympic Games, if they existed. It is in fact an experiment conducted in partnership between the Hydrodynamics Laboratory (LadHyX*) and the laboratoire Physique et Mécanique des…

An international collaboration has succeeded in doubling the frequency of extreme ultraviolet light, thus producing radiation with a wavelength of about ten nanometres. The experiment was carried out at the Applied Optics…

Start-ups created or managed by École Polytechnique’s alumni have raised nearly 300 million euros since the beginning of the year, compared to 877.2 million euros for the whole of 2020, which was already disrupted by the consequences of…

Guiding lightning by laser. This could be a superpower. However, this is not a science fiction scenario, but the aim the European research project FET-OPEN Laser lightning rod, in which the Laboratory for Applied Optics (*LOA) is…

May 5, 2021 marks the bicentenary of the death of Napoleon I. This anniversary is an opportunity to revisit the ties between Napoleon Bonaparte and École Polytechnique, which owes him its military status, its flag and its motto: “For the…

The result of an experiment conducted at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in the United States has sparked interest in the particle physics community. The measurement of the muon’s magnetic moment deviates from the theoretical…