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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 (...)

A new video with French subtitles (VFSTF) and dubbed in French Sign Language (LSF) is available.

The search for improved information carriers remains a major task in data storage technology research. The ideal candidate should be stable against external disturbance such as temperature or field (...)

On 4 March 2020, Jean Daillant, Director General of SOLEIL, formally signed the French National Charter for Research Integrity. The official signature of this charter follows the vote by the Board of (...)

We continue to follow Julie Gordon, doctoral student at the MONARIS laboratory and at the SOLEIL synchrotron, in the various places where her research work leads her.