Polytechnique insights A REVIEW BY INSTITUT POLYTECHNIQUE DE PARIS
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hands behind steelworking machine production welding process
π Science and technology π Industry π Energy π Planet

Solutions for producing greener steel

avec Marianne Boix, Lecturer at Toulouse INP-ENSIACET , Fabrice Patisson, CNRS researcher and Professor at Nancy Ecole des Mines and head of the Energy-Processes Masters at University of Lorraine
On November 7th, 2023
5 min reading time
2_anticipationShell
π Society π Industry π Economics

Case study: how Shell anticipated the 1973 oil crisis

avec Benjamin Cabanes, Lecturer at Mines Paris - PSL & at the MIE department of École Polytechnique (IP Paris), Orso Roger, Research Engineer at Institut des Hautes Etudes pour l'Innovation et l'Entrepreneuriat (IHEIE/PSL), Liliana Doganova, Researcher at Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation at Ecole des Mines de Paris
On November 2nd, 2023
6 min reading time
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π Planet π Society

The effect of clear-cutting forests on the environment

avec Laurent Bergès, Research engineer at Ecosystems and Societies in Mountains Laboratory (LESSEM research unit) at INRAE Grenoble Centre, Jérôme Ogée, Researcher at INRAE specialising in interactions between climate and vegetation, Marion Gosselin, Ponts, Eaux et Forêts engineer at INRAE's "Forest Ecosystems" research unit (Nogent-sur-Vernisson)
On November 2nd, 2023
4 min reading time
Crowd of students walking through a college campus on a sunny day, motion blur
π Society π Health and biotech π Neuroscience

Declining global IQ: reality or moral panic?

avec Franck Ramus, Director of research at CNRS and head of the "Cognitive Development and Pathology" team at Cognitive Sciences and Psycholinguistics Laboratory at Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris
On November 2nd, 2023
3 min reading time
A man using digital tablet, and modern buildings hologram.
π Society

The scenario method: an aid to strategic planning

avec Benjamin Cabanes, Lecturer at Mines Paris - PSL & at the MIE department of École Polytechnique (IP Paris), Orso Roger, Research Engineer at Institut des Hautes Etudes pour l'Innovation et l'Entrepreneuriat (IHEIE/PSL), Liliana Doganova, Researcher at Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation at Ecole des Mines de Paris
On October 25th, 2023
5 min reading time
The Future of Spatial Design
π Science and technology π Digital

Towards a quantum internet thanks to teleportation

avec Sophie Hermans, AWS Quantum Postdoctoral Scholar at IQIM (Caltech)
On October 25th, 2023
3 min reading time
A chilling collage of human figures with retro TV heads, standing zombie-like, portraying censorship, disinformation, and the blind following of mass media.
π Digital π Society π Neuroscience

Can we develop our intuition to counter misinformation?

avec Patrice Georget, Lecturer in Psychosociology at the University School of Management IAE Caen
On October 25th, 2023
9 min reading time
3_santeBiomimetisme
π Science and technology π Health and biotech

When regenerative medicine imitates nature

avec Catherine Picart, Director of the Biosanté joint research unit (INSERM, CEA, Univ. Grenoble Alpes), and head of the "Biomimetics and Regenerative Medicine" team (BRM)
On October 25th, 2023
3 min reading time
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π Science and technology π Planet π Digital

Algorithms: a biomimetic approach to performance and nuance

avec Clément Viricel, Doctorate in mathematics and computer science applied to biology, Laurent Pujo-Menjouet, Lecturer and researcher in mathematics applied to biology and medicine at the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 and senior lecturer and researcher at the Institut Camille Jordan
On October 25th, 2023
4 min reading time
1_inspirationVivante
π Health and biotech π Science and technology π Society π Planet

Drawing inspiration from living things: a method as much as a philosophy

avec Kalina Raskin, Physico-chemical engineer, PhD in neuroscience from Sorbonne University and Managing Director of Ceebios, (Centre for studies and expertise in biomimicry), Emmanuel Delannoy, Consultant, author, lecturer, founding partner of Pikaia, Secretary General of the French IUCN Committee and founder of the INSPIRE Institute
On October 25th, 2023
3 min reading time