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In response to a climate emergency that has been scientifically documented for decades, a new form of global governance has been initiated under the leadership of the United Nations. Warned by the successive reports of the scientific experts of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), …

Recent years have seen the popularization of the carbon footprint concept. Applied at different scales and in different contexts, it indicates the negative contribution of an actor or project to global warming. This concept can also be applied to savings, whose impact, although indirect, is equally…

According to the latest IPCC report, greenhouse gas emissions between 2010 and 2019 represent 80% of the "carbon budget" that humanity still has left before exceeding the 1.5°C target set by the Paris Agreement. In order to preserve this budget, we need to transform the global economy and change c…

The fight against global warming is a crucial challenge that requires us to make the transition to carbon neutrality by the end of the century at the latest. To achieve this balance between anthropogenic emissions and absorptions of greenhouse gases, we need to fundamentally transform our productio…

A team from the Hydrodynamics Laboratory (LadHyX*) has published an article in Biophysical Journal describing measurements of the mechanical properties of cells. An image of their experiment is featured on the cover. Here is what it looks like. Learn more on École polytechnique website *LadHyX: a j…

On March 19, 2024, IP Paris' International Center for French Language and Culture organized an International Francophonie Day at École Polytechnique. This was an opportunity for international students to discover a special guest, French-Algerian writer Kamel Daoud, participate in workshops and pres…

A gene known to be mutated in gynecological tumors has been identified as a major regulator of cell migration persistence. The product of this gene enables the cell to repeat an elementary migration step. This study, published in Nature Communications, uncovers a previously unknown alternative migr…

The first Entrepreneurship Night organized by Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris) welcomed around 100 students from IP Paris’ schools and other partner schools. During an entire night, their mission was to step into the shoes of an entrepreneur and propose, as a team, an innovative technolog…

The IP Paris Winter School on Micro-architectural Security was held from December 5 to 9, at the Fiap Paris center. A great challenge for being at the same time the first micro-architectural security event organised by IP Paris Department of Information, Communication and Electronics and among the …

Manon Blanc and Oliver Bournez, researchers at the Computer Science Laboratory of the École Polytechnique, have been awarded a prize at the international symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science for their work characterizing the complexity of functions over real numbers.

The first Winter School on Microarchitectural Security organized by Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris) will take place from December 5 to 9, 2022 at FIAP Paris. In an interview, Maria Mushtaq and Ulrich Kühne, researchers at Télécom Paris and in charge of the Winter School, talk about the i…