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During the festive season, duck foie gras is a product particularly appreciated by French people. Cooked in verrine before being arranged in (unflattened!) slices, or fried, it is being consumed in (...)

Scientists have created a database of carbon monoxide absorption spectra in order to describe the evolution and structure of many astrophysical environments.

A new study of interstellar ice analogs gives insight to explain the biomolecular asymmetry at the surface of primitive Earth. Living organisms use amino acids exclusively in their L enantiomeric form (...)

A team from Grenoble studied the growth of lettuces, under nanoparticles exposure. In addition to soil contamination, the study focused on airborne contaminants for the first time. Nanoparticles are (...)

Sunday 7th July, the Musée des arts et métiers welcomed the great event CristalÔ, on the occasion of the International Year of Crystallography.

A French group has determined the structure of human neuroglobin, highlighting a new mechanism for regulating the affinity of neuroglobin for oxygen.

Among the fission products of uranium and plutonium, iodine 129 is a radioactive element with a half time of ~16 millions of years.

On 24th June, SOLEIL welcomed three students from the Douanier Rousseau High school in Laval. The three of them were the laureates of the 21st edition of the “Olympiades de Physique” which took place (...)

Ionization is a phenomenon scientists have been trying to study closer and closer. Unfortunately, till now they were faced with an important blurring of the image taken. An international team recently (...)

An Italian-British team has come to SOLEIL to use the DEIMOS beamline to investigate single molecule coolers deposited on a gold surface. They observed that the deposition process did not alter the (...)

As each year, SOLEIL is glad to bring you its Highlights 2013 digital version, a selection of some striking works carried out in 2013 both on the beamlines and on the machine itself. 4000 visiting (...)

Thanks to an experimental setup unique in the world, a team of researchers from the Laboratory of Physical Chemistry - Matter and Radiation (UMPC /CNRS), the Free University of Berlin in Germany (...)