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The IPERION CH programme (Integrated Platform for the European Research Infrastructure On Cultural Heritage) will fund a European network of research infrastructures dedicated to the study of cultural (...)

Several teams from SOLEIL have been collaborating for months on the FEMTOSLICING project, a real technological and scientific challenge. On February 9th 2015, the first photons from the sliced (...)

The 2014 International Year of Crystallography ends and gives way to the 2015 International Year of Light. Whatever the chosen scientific theme, it always enters the field of research conducted at (...)

A team from Laboratoire de chimie physique-matière et rayonnement (CNRS/UPMC), in collaboration with international teams (1), has performed an experiment illustrating the measurement problem in (...)

After several years of data collection and analysis, a team from IGBMC has just published its research on the study of eukaryotic ribosomes in complexes with 16 molecules that inhibit their activity (...)

Physicists have just generated ultra short polarized light pulses of extreme UV in laboratory conditions. This kind of radiation gives access to information on the chirality that would remain (...)

Lighting a candle, a quite ordinary action, starts a highly complex chemical reaction sequence: the combustion of the candle wax. The warm and festive yellow candlelight is radiated from soot (...)

December 2014. The UN proclaimed 2015 as the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies, making it a very special year for all of the synchrotron community. Light-related topics are (...)

In association with Imperial College London, scientists at the Institut Pasteur and CNRS have identified a vulnerable site on the surface of the dengue virus which is targeted by the only broadly (...)

On Monday November 3 rd, the first beam entered the optical hutch of the PUMA* beamline. Project developed between SOLEIL and the joint unit CNRS/ministry of Culture IPANEMA, the line aims at studying (...)

2.72 billion years ago, in very salty volcanic lakes, microorganisms were able to metabolize arsenic, according to the work of researchers from the Institut de physique du globe of Paris (CNRS/IPGP (...)

Although water (H 2O) and ammonia (NH 3) are very simple molecules, scientific studies on these compounds are still revealing surprising phenomena.