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In the summer of 2021, a few milligrams of dust grains collected on the asteroid Ryugu more than 340 million kilometers from Earth, as part of the Japanese space mission Hayabusa-2, could be analyzed (...)

Cells communicate with their environment via receptors on their surface. When a signal-protein approaches these receptors, they can pass along a message to the inside of the cell, for example the (...)

In France, each year, breast cancer represents one third of new cancer cases in women. The incidence of this cancer is increasing, but fortunately with a decreasing mortality rate. Despite this (...)

On August 25, 2021, the synchrotron was restarted after the summer shutdown with a storage ring containing a new magnetic element made entirely of permanent magnets, the Superbend. Producing a (...)

In the current race to design fast, dense and energy-efficient information storage devices, spintronics (electronics that exploit the spin property of electrons) are on the lookout for ever smaller (...)

For several years, interdisciplinary research on weaponry has been carried out in order to question the place of weapons in ancient societies through the study of materials. Physicochemical analysis (...)

A challenge for further development of Li-ion batteries, especially for new applications requiring more energy, like electric vehicles or storage of renewable energies, is the design of new positive (...)

Animal coloration keeps fascinating us. While the process of pigmentation is well understood in most animals (including humans), the process of depigmentation is much less so. By studying color (...)

Laëtitia Baringthon, a PhD student on the CASSIOPÉE beamline, in collaboration with C2N and the CNRS/THALÈS joint physics unit, was awarded the “Prix Jeunes Talents France 2021” by the L'Oréal (...)

ExPaNDS and PaNOSC H2020 projects organise the 2nd PaN EOSC Symposium. This event will take place on October 26th, 2021, from 9:30 CET to 13:00 CET (hosted online, on Zoom).

Silicene, a single plane of silicon atoms organized in a honeycomb pattern, is, along with graphene - the equivalent of silicene, but with carbon - one of the new 2D materials that have attracted (...)

Despite the health situation, SOLEIL will once again be alongside Île de Science for this new edition of the Science Fair!