The brain: the mechanics of convolutions
In the News, MaterialsWhy do our brains have so many folds? The answer to this question is far from simple. In fact, the answer only came at the beginning of 2016, from a team of researchers including members from Harvard University and Télécom Bretagne. Unlike…
What is 5G?
Digital, In the News, What's?5G is the future network that will allow us to communicate wirelessly. How will it work? When will it be available for users? With the Mobile World Congress in full swing in Barcelona, we are launching our new “What is…?” series with Frédéric…
Octave: trustworthy and robust voice biometric authentication
Digital, Europe EN, In the NewsSurely, voice biometric authentication would be an easier alternative to the large amount of passwords that we use daily. One of the barriers to exploitation involves robustness to spoofing and challenging acoustic scenarios. In order to improve…
Alexandre Gramfort translates our brain waves with algorithms
Digital, In the NewsAlexandre Gramfort is a young researcher at Télécom ParisTech and just received an ERC starting grant. This prestigious European prize and support acknowledges his research efforts in signal processing and machine learning. For the last eight…
Additive manufacturing, a process for the industry of the future
In the News, MaterialsAs a major component of the Industry of the Future project, additive manufacturing — or 3D printing — is leading to ever-increasing research on materials. Researchers at Mines Douai seized on the opportunity to explore this line of research…
ALICE sees the origins of the universe in a quark-gluon plasma droplet
Energy, Energy & environment, In the NewsALICE, the Cern experiment in charge of studying the quark-gluon plasma, restarted its main activities on November 17. Based in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland, ALICE mission is to track each single particle ejected when lead…
XENON1T: a giant dark matter hunter
Energy, Energy & environment, In the NewsDark matter, five to six times more abundant than ordinary matter, remains one of our universe’s greatest enigmas. Invisible and unobservable, it continues to challenge physicists around the world. With the aim of detecting and studying it,…
When biology meets electronics
In the News, Live labs EN, MaterialsSince starting at Mines Saint-Etienne in 2009, researcher Róisín Owens has created unusual devices: cell cultures coupled with electronic monitoring, able to give a real-time measurement of the state of health and reactions of cells when confronted…
IMT and TUM create the german-french academy for industry of the future
In the News, SocietyIn the framework of the partnership between the French Alliance for Industry of the Future and the German platform Industrie 4.0, Institut Mines-Télécom (IMT) and Technische Universität München (TUM) have presented a plan to create a German-French…
Biosensors for monitoring herbicides in water
Energy & environment, Environment, In the News, Live labs ENWater preservation and management involves detecting its pollutants. Among those most frequently found in surface water and groundwater are weed-killers, such as the well-known glyphosate. At Mines Alès, Ingrid Bazin is working on developing…