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Warning: this event will be held in French Since 2018, UNESCO has declared that May 16 is the International Day of Light. For the fifth edition of this Day and a little ahead of schedule, SOLEIL opens (...)

High pressure is emerging as a powerful tool in structural biology, offering unprecedented access to intermediate folding states of proteins. At the Léon-Brillouin Laboratory (Saclay), in (...)

Copper oxide materials, also known as cuprates, feature the fascinating ability to become superconducting below a critical temperature Tc. Understanding the collective electron properties in cuprates (...)

Complementing sight, hearing, taste and smell, the sense of touch is discreet but essential. It enables us, for example, to perceive the world around us, manipulate objects with dexterity and even (...)

Two-dimensional (2D) materials are of particular interest to scientists, as they offer many potential applications thanks to unique electronic properties linked to quantum effects, such as “charge (...)

When polarized light is directed at a material, it interacts with the material depending on chemical and magnetic properties of the latter. The scattered light creates a diffraction pattern that (...)

Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is a major public health issue. The quantification of antibiotic accumulation is a crucial parameter that determines the antibiotics’ activity and is useful for the (...)

The 300 keV cryo-electron microscope (cryo-EM) installation at SOLEIL has just been completed and is now available to scientists who have applied through a call for proposals. The first user team (...)

Polyoxometalates (POMs) are a fascinating class of metal-oxo* clusters known for their versatile applications in catalysis, energy storage, and environmental applications. Despite their promise, many (...)

A team led by palaeontologists at Imperial College London, in collaboration with scientists from IPANEMA Institute and PSICHÉ beamline, revealed the 3D anatomy of ~430-million-year-old marine fossils (...)

Post-mining management in France is a critical concern due to the potential impact of historical mining activities on environmental quality. In lakes and rivers, solid matters which continuously (...)

SOLEIL Synchrotron staff wishes you a very happy new year!