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A scientific collaboration between Lund University (Sweden) and the SMIS beamline of Synchrotron SOLEIL elucidated for the first time the conformation of nanoscale amyloid aggregates. This study was (...)

At SOLEIL, initial experiments, notably in the case of industrial experiments, have resumed in compliance with the current regulations for the safety of all.

When a magnetic material is shined on with a laser pulse, it will locally demagnetize. This magnetization loss occurs in an ultra-fast timescale, here less than a picosecond (10 -12 s). In some (...)

The space in between the stars that populate our Galaxy is not empty. It is filled with a tenuous medium of gas and dust particles. Tremendous progress has been achieved in understanding this (...)

Organised by LEAPS on the challenges for synchrotrons and FELs to restore effective operations during the CoViD-19 pandemic

After the restart of the accelerators and the implementation of a specific organization, in particular around the Control Room, the beamlines restarted on Tuesday, May 26.

In accordance with French government recommendations to limit the spread of the CoVD-19 epidemic, SOLEIL management is organizing a very gradual resumption of activity. Thus, the accelerators were (...)

An international team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, the Universities of Southampton, Exeter, Warwick and Cambridge, and 3 synchrotrons -BESSY II (...)

A palette of colours on a silver plate: that is what the world’s first colour photograph looks like. It was taken by French physicist Edmond Becquerel in 1848. His process was empirical, never (...)

Pearls are unique in jewellery: they are the only gem produced by living organisms. The evaluation of their quality, and consequently their price, is based on shape, colour, lustre..., i.e. their (...)

Through X-ray absorption and x-ray magnetic circular dichroism measurements, researchers at the Institut Jean Lamour (Université de Lorraine, Nancy), the Paul Scherrer Institute (Villigen, Switzerland (...)