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Heat recovery (solar energy, heat pumps, air conditioning, cooling...) has become a technological challenge of increasing significance in this era of awareness of the importance of sustainable (...)

The determination of the predominant forms of radionuclides in the marine environment has become a major area of research for many research institutes specializing in the impact of military and (...)

The immortality of cancer cells associated with loss of life/death control mechanisms such as the regulation of apoptosis (programmed cell death), is a common stage in tumours. Mitochondria play an (...)

The first byte of experimental data was stored on DIFFABS on September 13, 2006, and now twelve years later, the scientists and users at SOLEIL will also remember the date of July 17, 2018­, when all (...)

Every year since 1992, the Fête de la Science is in full swing in all the cities of France, and even in Oversea Territories! This year, its 27th edition runs from October 6 to 14, with several (...)

 Characterization of materials under high pressure and temperature conditions are of great interest in planetary and materials sciences. Many efforts have focused on the development of in situ three (...)

Friday, September 7 th, 2018: what a great day for Synchrotron SOLEIL! After 10 years of light with our users (SOLEIL welcomes them since 2008), we were very happy and excited to welcome our 10 000 th (...)

The SMIS beamline recently hosted the Optical Service Team of the “Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale” ( Orsay). They established a very accurate calibration procedure of infrared Fabry-Perot filters (...)

To understand why some cancer cells resist radiotherapy, an international team of researchers has used crystallography to “photograph” the first moments of the molecular ballet that allows these cells (...)

Information: September 27 th, 2018: The article " Large local lattice expansion in graphene adlayers grown on copper", by Chaoyu Chen, José Avila, Hakim Arezki, Van Luan Nguyen, Jiahong Shen, Marcin (...)

Recent numbers regarding the climate change are alarming. They call for an urgent change in our energy production in order to reduce our carbon emissions that are responsible for the greenhouse effect (...)

Exceptionally this year, the 7th edition of the Sun of Minuit will not take place on the occasion of the European Night of Researchers, but Friday December 14, from 18h to midnight.