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Over 40 billion tons of CO 2 are emitted every year due to human activities. What can we do with this waste? In Nature, plants capture CO 2 and transform it into plant material (biomass) thanks to (...)

How can a neurosurgeon be sure that he removed the totality of the tumour from his patient's brain, while preserving healthy neighbouring tissues ? To help the practitioner, researchers and physicians (...)

An international team of French, Italian and Slovenian scientists have deciced to develop and new, more resistant king of coating for the bronze statues of our urban property. In 2016 they came at (...)

"Moon milk" is a strange substance that covers the walls of some prehistoric caves, sometimes erasing parietal works. What is it made of ? A research was carried out on the infrared beamline SMIS in (...)

Trees are suffering from global warming. Due to droughts that are too intense and too frequent, entire forest massifs are dying. Many coniferous trees could be under the spotlight. To identify the (...)

Prussian blue has been prized by artists since the 18th century. Today, scientists are taking a keen interest in this pigment by studying what happens when some of its iron atoms are replaced by (...)

Following his appointment in December 2023, Jean Susini took office as Director General of the SOLEIL Synchrotron on September 1, 2024, for a five-year term.

During the Workshop on Metrology for X-ray Optics, Mirror Design and Fabrication IWXM 2024, hosted by the Helmholtz Zentrum in Berlin, our colleague François Polack was awarded the 5 th Sostero Award.

On Wednesday August 21, SOLEIL met the management team of Saint-Gobain Research Compiègne.

Scientists from the Pasteur Institute have pinpointed the precise binding sites for the coronavirus HKU1 in respiratory cells, providing a detailed picture of the infection mechanism used by the virus (...)

During the development of a wheat grain, the grain’s cells synthesize storage proteins, which assemble into dense, spherical structures called protein bodies. These protein bodies act as stable (...)

Defender of the SOLEIL project since its beginnings and author of articles tracing its history [1], prof. Alain Michalowicz trained in X-ray absorption spectroscopy, collaborated with and helped by (...)