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The SOLEIL Council has appointed Jean Susini as Director General of the Synchrotron SOLEIL with effect from 1 September 2024.

3.5 cm long, 1.5 cm in diameter... This small talisman, which may soon join the collections of the Musée des Écritures d'Ampus in the Haut-Var county of France, is very mysterious, and above all, very (...)

Otoliths are mineral structures found in the inner ear of vertebrates. In teleost* fish, they continuously form throughout the animal's life, preserving a chronological record of the chemical and (...)

Circular Dichroism measurements have already demonstrated that an achiral (1) molecule can acquire a chiral (1) spectroscopic signature when interacting with a chiral environment. A new study (...)

Rémy Pierru's thesis, entitled " Mantle melting at high pressure and high temperature: application to early Earth dynamics”, set out to reproduce experimentally the conditions under which the Earth’s (...)

Methane is a particularly interesting molecule for studying (exo-) planetary atmospheres, especially that of Saturn's moon Titan, which has a thick atmosphere. Detailed analysis of the radiation (...)

Water and electricity to produce hydrogen: this is the electrolysis of water, a reaction that many high school students have performed during chemistry practicals. A seemingly simple reaction, but (...)

Temperature plays a critical role in regulating body mechanisms. Local temperature increments above 42 °C are shown to kill cancer cells in tumorous tissue, leading to the development of nanoparticle (...)

Warning: this event will only be held in French On Friday, November 24, 2023, for the 11th edition of SOLEIL de Minuit, the synchrotron SOLEIL will exceptionally open its doors for night tours of its (...)

On Saturday October 7 and Sunday October 8, SOLEIL will once again be taking part in the annual Fête de la Science (Science Festival), offering the public the chance to discover SOLEIL and science (...)

In a series of portraits, SOLEIL meets the men and women behind the synchrotron. For this first episode, Sufal Swaraj, a researcher specializing in X-ray spectromicroscopy on the HERMES beamline (...)

Acute T-cell lymphoblastic leukemia is notorious for its high relapse rate and resistance to standard treatments, considerably limiting patients' chances of long-term survival. A team of researchers (...)