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The new edition of our Highlights brings together 42 standout achievements selected from the approximately 700 articles published in 2023, resulting from the research undertaken both on SOLEIL's (...)

At SOLEIL, research on the little mysterious talisman (see the video "A Talisman with plenty of character(s)") continues. After being virtually unrolled by the X-ray tomography experiments conducted (...)

Can semiconductive materials store and deliver a large quantity of hydrogen on demand, like other systems studied for hydrogen storage? Could they be used in hydrogen-fuelled vehicles? To date, large (...)

Through a series of portraits, SOLEIL meets the people who make the synchrotron work. For this second episode, Danielle Njinwoua, a senior safety technician, has agreed to take part. She tells us all (...)

SOLEIL organized the 38 th Tango Collaboration Meeting from May 28 to 30, 2024, bringing together 64 remote participants and 50 on site at SOLEIL. The event highlighted the dynamism of the Tango (...)

Imagine being able to explore what's hidden inside different types of wood, on a micrometer scale, all without destroying the trees or using a microscope! This is precisely the aim of Eric Badel and (...)

Photocatalysis 1 is considered one of the cheapest and most efficient technology for solving the problem of global energy shortage. One of the challenges is to find the right photoactive material for (...)

Despite numerous geophysical and geochemical studies, the properties of the Moon's core, and in particular its density, remain poorly understood. The core density is closely linked to its composition (...)

On April 15, 2024, EPA Paris-Saclay and SOLEIL signed a partnership agreement to capture and recover the waste heat* produced by the Synchrotron. Installed on the Saclay plateau, it will supply a 5th (...)

On Monday 18 March 2024, over 8 tons of equipment have been delivered to SOLEIL. These are parts for the new cryogenic electron microscope, which will be made available to users, on the basis of a (...)

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Some bacteria form micrometric calcareous granules inside their cells, thus storing calcium and carbon. Their function remains unknown but cells spend energy to synthesize them. To predict the (...)