A searcher works on a MBE Molecular Beam Epitaxy machine, at a III-V Lab research laboratory of Nokia-Thales-CEA Leti, in Palaiseau, south of Paris, on October 16, 2024. The Thales research laboratories in Palaiseau, where Nobel Prize-winning physicist Albert Fert once worked, are developing ultra-high-performance defense technologies. Some are inspired by the butterfly wing or the human brain. (Photo by Thomas SAMSON / AFP) (Photo by THOMAS SAMSON/AFP via Getty Images)