Topological quantum systems are physical systems exhibiting properties that depend on the overall connectivity of their ...

In August, researchers at Switzerland’s Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne unveiled a brain that converts thought-to-text with 91% accuracy and is even smaller than Neuralink’s chip.

In 1989, the École Polytechnique massacre propelled the issue of violence against women to the fore of the Canadian conscious, putting women’s rights and feminism under the microscope.

That was the day 14 people were killed and another 14 injured by a gunman at École Polytechnique, a post-secondary engineering school in Montreal, in the so-called Montreal Massacre.

Students hold candles during a ceremony to honour the 14 women killed in the mass shooting at Montreal's École Polytechnique, in a Dec. 11, 1989, file photo. ANDRE PICHETTE/Reuters ...

At a memorial to those gunned down during the Dec. 6, 1989, massacre at Montreal's École Polytechnique, a person holds a rose dedicated to Sonia Pelletier, one of 14 women killed.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and wife Sophie Gregoire pictured at an Ecole Polytechnique memorial earlier this month. Picture: Ryan Remiorz/The Canadian Press via AP ...

Gunman expressed hatred for feminists When Marc Lépine, 25, walked into a classroom full of students at École Polytechnique that day, he separated the men from the women. He shouted "You're all ...

Dec. 6, 2019 marks 30 years since the attack at École Polytechnique. On that day, in 1989, a man determined to kill feminists took the lives of 14 women. He killed: Geneviève Bergeron, Hélène ...

École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), or the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, is a public research university in Lausanne, Switzerland. Unusually for a Swiss university, ...

École Polytechnique was established in 1794, five years after the furies of revolution toppled Louis XVI and his queen Marie Antoinette from the French throne.