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  MINATEC celebrates science The 2015 MINATEC “Parvis des Sciences” Science Fair and fifth annual EXPERIMENTA Art, Science, and Technology Fair will be held on the MINATEC campus from October 8–10, with plenty of science-related activities for everyone, from hardcore science enthusiasts to the general public. MINATEC held its first “Parvis des Sciences” in 2007, […] >>

The crystallography board game invented in 2013 by a group of first-year students from Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma was a hit at the closing festivities of the International Year of Crystallography held in Rabat, Morocco in late April. In fact, the game was so popular that Unesco and Dectris (the world’s leading manufacturer of detectors […] >>

Grenoble Institute of Technology’s center for technology transfer will open in late October. The center, to be located in the new Phelma 2 building at MINATEC, will be dedicated to industrial R&D projects, offering more than a dozen 30-sq.-m workspaces for student groups from Grenoble Institute of Technology schools. The industrial R&D projects, part of […] >>

Leti engineer Olivier Ménard raised $65,000 from some 1,000 backers in 55 countries during a recent Kickstarter campaign for the Airboard, a personal project of Ménard’s. And just what is the Airboard? A miniature, open-source, communicating (by Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Sigfox, etc.) computer that can be used to quickly program IoT prototypes to confirm proof-of-concept. A […] >>

Researchers from INAC, Leti, and IRTSV recently completed the first-ever successful analysis of neutral particles by mass spectrometry. The scientific achievement, which took place right here in Grenoble, was praised by an article in Nature Communications. The researchers chose to bypass traditional spectrometry methods, preferring to use nano-electromechanical systems (NEMS), whose resonance frequency varies depending […] >>