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Synchrotron SOLEIL, which welcomes up to 5000 visitors per year as facility users as well as the general public, has been temporarily closed in line with French government recommendations, in order to (...)

Anne Houdusse Juillé, user of the PROXIMA 1, PROXIMA 2A and SWING beamlines since 2008, was elected to the Academy of Sciences in December 2019. She joins Dino Moras and Félix Rey (elected (...)

Tattoos became a trend during the nineties. Currently, in France 15% of the population are tattooed, including 25% of those under the age of 30. However, this practice involves a risk of skin reaction (...)

Spin crossover molecules have two states (a magnetic one and a non-magnetic one) that can be modified by external stimuli. The possibility of switching from one state to another with stimuli is very (...)

Updated March 16th, 18:30

In France, more than 7 million people experience hearing problems, or 11% of the population. And this is a figure that is not likely to fall with the aging of the population. In addition to people who (...)

Hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe, consists of only one proton and one electron. So, it is neither rare nor - evidently - complex, and yet it continues to fascinate scientists (...)

Spintronics -or spin electronics- in contrast to conventional electronics, use the spin of electrons for sensing, information storage, transport, and processing. Potential advantages are nonvolatility (...)

Study of model bacterial membranes to accelerate toxin’s decomposition

The new X-ray nanotomography instrument on the ANATOMIX beamline at SOLEIL has seen its first official users. The DYSCOL unit ( Dynamics and Structure of Liquid Bodies) of the French National (...)

A strong collaboration between several groups of Paris-Saclay University namely: the SEXTANTS beamline (SOLEIL synchrotron), the SPEC (UMR3680 CEA-CNRS), the Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/Thales and (...)

Coherent diffraction imaging enables the study of nanocatalysts for hydrogenation in action On SOLEIL’s SIXS beamline, for the first time ever, researchers from Aix-Marseille University (IM2NP (...)