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Dramatizing genius

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Kannur University

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Scientists release the most detailed analysis yet on the expansion of the universe

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Thanh Do University

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University of Nebraska-Lincoln, College of Business

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Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Tirupati

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Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Tirupati

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AI is changing how we work, not the value of a college education

- Hawai’i at Mānoa

UH Mānoa seeks legislative support to strengthen athletics, student-athlete success

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UH seeks $3.7M to strengthen Hawaiʻi’s healthcare workforce

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Oli, mele, kuleana guide UH Mānoa annual summit

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Digital systems’ global future takes center stage at Shidler international conference

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Crockett, Seung, win major prizes from National Academy of Sciences

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Three Ph.D. students honored at American Anthropological Association meeting

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Study abroad through UH ‘teas’ up alumnus’ passion for global business

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NSF Survey Places UConn School of Social Work as a Top U.S. School for Research Expenditures

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Inaugural ‘Rising Scholar’ Succeeding at UConn School of Medicine

AI weather forecasting initiative to strengthen climate resilience in West Africa

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Canadian Campus Wellbeing Survey Results - Virtual Presentation

Early Music Princeton: Author Conversation Concert

Hardline migration policy pushes ICE towards violence – could it happen here?

Ice turns tough migration policy into violence – could it happen here?

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St Francis Xavier University

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UConn to Test Campus Emergency Systems on Tuesday

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How international diversity creates a high-quality teaching environment

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EuroTeQaThon 2024: L’X welcomed the participants from nine European partner institutions

A new experimental approach to investigate defects in semiconductors

Gerondeau - Safran 2024 Awards awarded to INEN Robotics and Greyn

A public health data-visualization app developed by Msc T students

New round of financing for C12, a quantum processors start-up, launched by two X alumni

Online platforms: users under influence

Observation of a new mechanism enabling protein droplets to swim

Operation CIEDS 2024 organized at École polytechnique

Nine students from l’X venture to the University of Tokyo for a research internship

When mechanics make cells talk

L X at the July 14th parade, between the Paris Olympics and the Liberation celebrations

Two X start-ups receive EIC funding

The international Chair Data Science Institute’ has been renewed

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Two ERC Starting fellowships in theoretical physics and economics

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Catherine Rolland, a woman committed to science and culture

Samsung Healthcare acquires a start-up spun off from École Polytechnique’s research

X-UP, École Polytechnique s incubator, awarded by France Digitale

Arcep, a new partner for the MSC T “Data and Economics for Public Policy”

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HSE University - QS Sustainability Ranking 2026

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Photos: Students celebrate new semester with ‘First Snow’ event

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Queen s Observatory Open House

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Stern School of Business at NYU Abu Dhabi

Stern School of Business at NYU Abu Dhabi

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UH Mānoa professor named fellow in new initiative on U.S.–China relations

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University of Hohenheim - QS Sustainability Ranking 2026

University of Hohenheim - QS Sustainability Ranking 2026

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Invisible University for Ukraine Convenes Winter School in Budapest on Pluralism, War, and the Global Public Sphere

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L X and MBZUAI sign MoU focusing on IA

AI Summit: The road to trustworthy Artificial Intelligence

École Polytechnique honors its first woman valedictorian

AI summit : Frontiers in Generative AI

Pilar Acosta, committed to sustainability

Exploring high-energy astrophysics at Columbia and École Polytechnique

Olga Chashchina, Entrepreneurship for health and society

X-founded biotech Stilla Technologies acquired by US Bio-Rad Labs for $225 million

Caroline Cohen, for science and sport.

French Minister of the Armed Forces announces the construction of a Defense Institute on École Polytechnique’s campus

The CTA observatory: the future of gamma-ray astronomy

Evolution: new mechanisms reveal the proximity between eukaryotes and archaea

Plasana Medical: an innovation rewarded at the Palmarès des Inventeurs 2025

Three École Polytechnique Masters confirm their success in the Eduniversal 2025 ranking

The Prix Pierre Faurre 2024 awarded to Claire Fauvarque Nuytten (X2009), specialist in elastomer processes

Antoine Guibal, professor at l’X, on American writers of the ‘lost generation’

Photoreport at the Quantum Circuits and Matter Lab (QCMX)

PhD students from École polytechnique laboratories in the spotlight at MT180

The 1st job survey X2018 graduating class : Promising career beginnings

École Polytechnique s team on the podium at the International Physicists Tournament 2025

MSc T 2023 First Job Survey: a high rate of professional integration on graduation

EuroteQ: New training courses for professionals

First Employment Survey 2025 – Bachelor Graduates: Very promising prospects

The second quantum revolution in Ecole Polytechnique s laboratories

U7+ Presidential Summit Highlights Universities’ Role in Advancing responsible AI

New double degree program with the Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires

Twisted flux ropes as the key to solar flares and atmospheric heating

Copie de L’X signs a partnership with Bocconi University

Mus X enriches its collections with the portrait of an alumnus, dated 1814

Claude Sabbah wins Frontiers of Science Award

Alice Bob to build $50 million advanced quantum laboratory in Paris

Inauguration of GenF, in which École Polytechnique is a scientific partner

BX tops French daily Le Figaro s 1st ranking of “general and industrial engineering” Bachelors

Antonin Bergeaud (X2010), winner of the 2025 Best Young Economist Award

Stilla technologies, a successful spin-off from the Hydrodynamics Laboratory

Flag presentation and handover ceremony X2024

Paris-Saclay Spring 2025: L X as a showcase and key player in the Plateau de Saclay innovation ecosystem

Michel Koenig receives the Alfvén 2025 award

École Polytechnique in the Top 20 of the THE Digital Leaders ranking

Eight start-ups incubated at l X present at VivaTech 2025

A Nature article unravels superfluorescence in perovskites

Sooyong Chae and Ana-Maria Bratu awarded at the Three Minutes Thesis competition

Stefania Cacovich and Laurent Bopp receive CNRS medals

VivaTech 2025: École Polytechnique s entrepreneurial ecosystem in the spotlight

École Polytechnique s start-ups shine in a largely renewed 2025 Next40/120 list

Arnak Dalalyan, a statistics specialist at CREST, receives an ERC Advanced Grant

International Research Collaboration on Quantum Physics with Visiting Professor Igor Klep

IP Paris rises 5 places in QS 2026 ranking to 41st worldwide

The BIOC laboratory, 50 years of molecular and cellular biology

Track cycling sprint is also a matter of strategy

EuroTeQaThon 2025: Fostering student innovation across Europe

Alain Aspect, elected to the French Academy

Polytechnique students perform at the International Collegiate Programming Contest

Polymath Summer Camp 2025: Two weeks of introduction to research in mathematics for Bachelor s students

Third edition of Operation CIEDS at École Polytechnique

Philosophy for thinking about artificial intelligence

Preventing concrete degradation in sulfate-rich environments

L’X reaffirms its partnership with the University of Pisa

The International Physics Olympiad (IphO) in France and at École Polytechnique for the first time ever

Special DNA structures regulate genes

Chilean researcher Sergio Rica from partner university PUC visits l’X

University of Michigan’s research internship program Optics in the City of Lights at l’X

EuroTeQ Spring School 2026 for Teachers: Inclusive and Engaging Learning in the International Classroom

A new Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at École Polytechnique

Two satellites launched to observe Earth s atmosphere

Three Bachelor s students honored with the 2025 Maryam Mirzakhani Junior Prize

Researcher Sylvain Mailler delivered a lecture at EPN in Ecuador

Four new ERC Starting Grants awarded in l X laboratories

When altruism smooths social dynamics

Mistral, an AI gem co-founded by two X graduates, doubles its valuation to €12 billion

Mathematician Stéphane Mallat receives the CNRS Gold Medal

École Polytechnique launches plans for a new research building

The Master Data Science AI for Business X-HEC, ranked 2nd worldwide in the QS 2026 rankings

École Polytechnique s Chairs: a legacy reinvented to meet contemporary challenges

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École Polytechnique well represented and well placed at the 2025 International Mathematics Competition

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L’X reinforces Cooperation with the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute

Useful fictions • 5, an initiative launched by the Arts Sciences Chair and continued by SPIRAL

Manon Blanc, Polina Perstneva, and Bianca Marin Moreno win L Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards

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International Day at École Polytechnique

Cybersecurity Defense Day at École Polytechnique

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University Fair 2025: Navigating Paths to Excellence

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