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Press release - The cereal weevil, one of the world’s main crop pests, harbors symbiotic bacteria that live inside its cells. Scientists from INRAE and INSA Lyon, in collaboration with experts from (...)

When a rigid aluminum-based MOF becomes flexible... Long considered rigid by the MOF (Metal–Organic Frameworks) research community, the aluminum-based material DUT-5(Al) has now revealed a remarkable (...)

Crystalline surfaces often exhibit reconstructions, usually assumed to affect only a few atomic layers below the surface. A collaborative study (conducted by the Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques (...)

Through a series of portraits, SOLEIL introduces the people who make the synchrotron what it is. In this fifth installment, François Trias steps into the spotlight. Hired over two years ago as part of (...)

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When a surface is immersed in water, it becomes spontaneously charged. Interactions between charged surfaces play a key role in many phenomena, such as the cohesion of cement, the behaviour of (...)

By combining nanoscale thermometry with cell-scale imaging, researchers have revealed how heat generated by gold nanostars under near-infrared light travels from individual nanoparticles to entire (...)

Researcher at the Department of Chemistry "Ugo Schiff" at the University of Florence, Mónica Ledesma Motolinía has been working for several years on soft condensed matter, active matter and (...)

Cuneiform tablets are among the oldest written records in human history. Some show salt layers formed after millennia underground, which can crack the clay and completely cover the inscriptions (...)

The new edition of our Highlights brings together 45 standout achievements selected from the approximately 700 articles published in 2024, resulting from the research undertaken both on SOLEIL's (...)

Scientist from the National Institute for R&D in Microtechnologies (IMT) in Bucharest, Cosmin Romanitan has strong expertise in laboratory-based X-ray diffraction on different types of nanomaterials (...)

Through a series of portraits, SOLEIL goes out to meet the people who make the synchrotron what it is. For this fourth episode, Stéphanie Belin, a scientist on the ROCK beamline, played along. From (...)