Artificial Neurons Communicating Through Light: A Major Advance for Hardware-Based Artificial Intelligence

Current artificial intelligence performance relies heavily on energy-intensive computing architectures that are difficult to miniaturize. A team of researchers is now proposing a radically new approach: memristic artificial neurons capable of communicating with each other through light, paving the way for ultra-compact and highly efficient three-dimensional neural networks. In a recently published article in Nature […]

Let’s Talk About Gender Equality – Roundtable

Save the Date – The roundtable entitled “Gender Equality: Childhood, Education, Health, Justice… We Are All Concerned,” moderated by Pierre Ancet (Professor of Philosophy at UBE), will be held on Friday, January 23, 2026, at 9:30 a.m. in the Grand Amphitheater of Polytech Dijon. It will bring together seven guests from diverse backgrounds to explore […]

“Heat, energy, thermodynamics. Carnot’s message today… 200 years later,” by Gilles Bertrand

To mark the bicentenary of Sadi Carnot’s seminal work, “Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire and on Machines Fitted to Develop This Power” (1824), Gilles Bertrand, Professor Emeritus of Physical Chemistry at the ICB Laboratory (University of Burgundy Europe), has written a book that sheds new light on the scientific and visionary legacy of […]

Official launch of the i-NanoT project: a strong ambition for nanomedicine in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

i-NanoT was officially launched yesterday at Polytech Dijon (University of Burgundy Europe). This event marks the beginning of a large-scale project on nanomedicine technologies, bringing together researchers, institutional and industrial stakeholders, European funders, and the 13 partners of the consortium. A unifying project supported by a large consortium The morning began with a series of institutional […]

Art, Science and the Anthropocene: an exploration of exoplanets at ENSAD Dijon

Last week, as part of the University of Burgundy Europe’s Graduate Programme: Art, Science, Anthropocene, ENSAD Dijon hosted a week-long interdisciplinary workshop on a topic at the crossroads of science and artistic creation: exoplanets. This week of experimentation opened with a lecture by Vincent Bondon (Research Director at the CNRS/ICB Laboratory), who presented recent advances […]

ICB is participating in the 2025 Science Festival around the theme “Intelligence(s)”

From October 3 to 13, 2025, the Science Festival was held throughout France under the theme “Intelligence(s),” inviting the public to explore the many forms of intelligence—human, animal, plant, and artificial—and the questions they raise for research and society. The Carnot Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Burgundy (ICB) participated in this year’s festival through several events organized […]