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Made famous by the book (and films) 'Jurassic Park', the exceptional 3D preservation of amber* inclusions (insects, feathers, plants, etc.) has been the subject of many fantasies, notably the (...)

The immune system is constantly identifying and destroying pathogenic bacteria, viruses and other factors of infection. The complement system is one of the immune system’s components, comprising (...)

Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) takes its name from a first description of this disease in Crimea in 1944, among Soviet soldiers, and then in Congo in 1956. Transmitted to humans by a tick bite (...)

Many synchrotron experiments using X-ray fluorescence techniques are currently limited by the sensitivity of dedicated detectors. Indeed, in this type of experiments, key parameters for the detector (...)

Since 2018, UNESCO has declared that May 16 is the International Day of Light. For this fourth edition, SOLEIL opens its doors and the inside of the accelerator for an evening of visits and (...)

Metalloporphyrins are large molecules (fig. 1) whose cyclic structure includes a metal atom. Their role, essential in biological processes, depends mainly on the nature of the metal they contain: for (...)

For the penultimate episode of this series, we meet again Julie Gordon, doctoral student at the MONARIS laboratory and at the SOLEIL synchrotron, who is finalizing her research work on the alteration (...)

Lunéville château, aka the "Versailles of Lorraine", built in sandstone of the region, has had an eventful history marked by several fires. The most recent one, in 2003, was devastating, destroying (...)

The largest and most diverse family of enzymes are the so-called radical SAM enzymes. They catalyse a large number of major biochemical reactions often unprecedented in living cells, notably for the (...)

The invention and diffusion of copper and bronze metallurgy in Europe constituted a true technical innovation for societies in the middle of the 3rd millennium BC. On the archaeological sites of (...)

The improvement of the CoVid-19 situation allows us to welcome visitors again to Synchrotron SOLEIL! General audience, scholars and any other curious person are invitied to visit the French (...)

Scientists from France, Germany and Italy, in collaboration with the PROXIMA-2A beamline, have designed a new class of active molecules that inhibit one of the major mechanisms involved in the (...)