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The goal of the four-year EU Epistore project, which started in January, will be to develop a 3-cm cube-shaped reversible fuel cell that delivers 1 kW of power and stores energy produced from renewable sources. Grenoble-based LMGP got involved because of its deep knowledge of thin films. The “cube” will actually be made up of […] >>

Global 5G rollout may still only be in its early stages, but researchers are already investigating the next generation in communications technology. The EU Rise-6G project, coordinated by CEA-Leti, kicked off at the end of January. The project’s consortium of twelve partners, which includes global telecommunications operator Orange, the French national center for scientific research […] >>

IBS scientist Paul Schanda, an expert on NMR techniques for the study of protein dynamics, recently won two international awards for his body of work. Trained in physical chemistry, Schanda has made a name for himself by bringing the physical methods of chemistry to biology. Most notably, he came up with one of the first […] >>

Nature published Google’s groundbreaking results on a 54-qubit quantum computer in October, effectively declaring that quantum supremacy had been achieved. A few weeks later, however, a team of researchers from Irig and the US-based Flatiron Institute produced very similar calculations on a common laptop computer. Google did reach an impressive milestone when it successfully operated […] >>

Étienne Perret was not able to receive his IMT Espoir award from the French Academy of Sciences under the hallowed dome of the historic Institut de France building. The December 1 award ceremony had to be held remotely due to the ongoing pandemic. This award is not the first one that LCIS* researcher Perret has […] >>