Columns - Polytechnique Insights

Collagen: a key to preserving historical parchments

with Marie-Claire Schanne-Klein, CNRS research director at the Optics and Biosciences Laboratory (LOB*), IP Paris, Gaël Latour, Senior lecturer, University of Paris-Saclay, Researcher at the Optics and Biosciences Laboratory (LOB*), IP Paris

Invasive species: solutions to the economic burden

par Christophe Diagne, Post-doctoral researcher in Dynamics of Biodiversity and Macroecology at Université Paris Saclay, Boris Leroy, Senior Lecturer at the National Museum of Natural History (MNHN)

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“There is no one right way to manage innovation, it’s about organising the menagerie!”

par Rémi Maniak, Professor at École Polytechnique and researcher at the Centre de Recherche en Gestion (I3-CRG)*, Nicolas Mottis, Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Management at the Centre for Management Research of the Interdisciplinary Innovation Institute (I³-CRG*) at the École Polytechnique (IP Paris)

Are cognitive biases compatible with the scientific method?

par Patrice Georget, Lecturer in Psychosociology at the University School of Management IAE Caen

Quantum computers: how do they work?

par Landry Bretheau, Professor at Ecole Polytechnique, Quantum Physicist and Researcher in the Laboratory of Condensed Matter Physics (PMC*)

Diving into the minds of musicians to uncover new learning strategies

par Pierre Legrain, CNRS Research Director in perception and memory at Institut Pasteur

Plastic waste: the need to act quickly before we are submerged

par Isabelle Méjean, Professor of Economics at Sciences Po, Julien Martin, professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Quebec in Montréal (ESG-UQAM)

New Zealand: the first tobacco-free generation?

par Karine Gallopel-Morvan, Professor in Social Marketing at EHESP and member of the Haut conseil de santé publique

“Microplastic pollution in the ocean contributes to antibiotic resistance”

par Maria Belen Sathicq, Post-doctoral fellow at the Institute for Water Research of the Italian National Research Council (CNR)

“Our desire for truthfulness makes us suspicious of institutions”

par Etienne Klein, Philosopher of science and Professor of Physics at CEA