Since 2004 La Recherche gives annual awards in 12 disciplines: Archaeology, Astrophysics, Biology, Chemistry, Environment, Mathematics, Health, Neurosciences, Physics, Information sciences, Technologies and one special highlight prize.

The 2017 La Recherche Prize was awarded on January 31, 2018 to three researchers from ENS de Lyon:

• In the category "Archaeology", Theo Tacail is rewarded for his article "Evaluating human withdrawal practices with calcium in tooth enamel".
• Then, in the category "Mathematics", Michaël Rao is rewarded for his article "exhaustive search of convex pentagons lining the plane".
• Finally, in the category "Information Science", Amina Doumane - who already conferred the Gilles Kahn Prize for the best thesis "On the theory of the infinite proof of fixed point logic" - was rewarded for her article "the μ- linear-time calculus "where remarkable computer results on infinite logics".

Hurray, hurray, hurray!