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The 33 rd edition of the European Crystallography Conference (ECM33) has just come to an end after five days of effervescent scientific meetings, in a renovated congress venue, in the immediate (...)

According to the European Union's Circular Economy Action Plan , the industry can determine up to 80 % of a product's subsequent environmental impact at the design phase. However, the linear (...)

The delegates of ESUO (European Synchrotron and Free Electron Laser User Organisation) met on August 29 and 30, 2022 for their 18th General Assembly, which took place this year at SOLEIL, gathering 32 (...)

In streambeds of freshwater wetlands, accumulations of bright orange-brown ‘flocs’ are commonly seen. To better understand their role in diverse biogeochemical cycles, the Soil Chemistry Group (ETH (...)

In 1949, the Nobel laureate in Physics sir Nevill Mott together with Nicolás Cabrera laid the foundations of the theory of the oxidation of metals. Today, the application of this model is still (...)

The effect of rising greenhouse gas emissions on global warming drives current research into improved means of separation, capture and/or storage of CO 2. Porous metal-organic materials, which are (...)

What do SOLEIL and the cinema have in common? As the third part of the Jurassic World film series is released in cinemas, we invite you to go back to the origins of the saga through research carried (...)

After the Conceptual Design Report ( CDR) phase of the synchrotron upgrade project, the SOLEIL teams have been working for several months now on the Technical Design Report (TDR). Please note that (...)

On Thursday 9 and Friday 10 June 2022, SOLEIL welcomed a group of six high school students from the Albert Schweitzer high school in Mulhouse and their two physics teachers for a special visit.

At the end of June 2022, scientific equipment from one of the beamlines of the German synchrotron ANKA was moved and installed on DISCO at SOLEIL, thus completing the equipment dedicated to the (...)

The non-profit civil company Synchrotron SOLEIL was created in 2001. This new edition of our Highlights looks back on the twentieth anniversary of this creation, a year still marked by the pandemic to (...)

On 21 June 2022, the renewal of the framework agreement between the Fondation des Sciences du Patrimoine (FSP) and SOLEIL was signed by Isabelle Pallot-Frossard, President of the FSP, and Jean (...)