A searcher works on a PLD Pulse Laser Deposition machine, at a French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and French defence giant Thales research laboratory 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)