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An interdisciplinary team has revealed the mechanisms behind the exceptional preservation of 4,000-year-old textile remains from the Ancient East. The imaging of these archaeological samples in the (...)

On June 8 and 9, 2021, we welcomed a group of 4 laureates of the physics Olympics, from Maxence Van Der Meersch high school in Roubaix (France), accompanied by their teacher.

Early in June 2021, researchers from the CEA in Cadarache and the MARS beamline studied the chemistry of a cross-section of spent nuclear fuel using X-ray absorption spectroscopy. Another technique, X (...)

The urgent need for low consumption electronic devices calls for new materials which could be operated at fast speed with lower cost. 2D materials hold strong promise to that extent. Here we show that (...)

In all living organisms, genomic DNA is made up of four nucleotide bases: A, T, C and G, for adenine, thymine, cytosine and guanine. All, except genomic DNA of certain bacteriophages (viruses (...)

Subduction zones are extraordinarily complex shear-zone regions in the Earth. To understand their dynamics, it is important to investigate the deformation behavior and microstructure of rocks being (...)

Diatomic molecules are omnipresent in our environment, as well as in the air we breathe, but if we increase pressure by gradually bringing them closer together, how long do we continue to refer to (...)

With this fourth meeting with Julie Gordon, doctoral student at the MONARIS laboratory and at the SOLEIL synchrotron, we keep discovering the various places where she is led by her research work on (...)

Gallium nitride (GaN) and related compounds are key material systems in state-of-the-art opto- and high-frequency-electronic. The spectrum of relevant functionalities is significantly extended through (...)

For decades, scientists have referred to the measurement of the spectrum of the diatomic molecule N 2 to calibrate "soft" X-rays (energy less than 2000 eV) absorption spectroscopy experiments, or to (...)

Chiral molecules exist in two forms, called enantiomers, which cannot be superimposed but are mirror images one of the other. Amino acids, the chiral elementary building blocks of proteins, only exist (...)

Researchers from the DESIRS beamline have determined for the first time chiral* asymmetries (caused by photoelectron circular dichroism (PECD*)) in photoelectron imaging experiments on chiral aerosol (...)