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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.

The European project CALIPSOplus ( www.calipsoplus.eu) brings together 19 partners offering access to 14 synchrotrons and 8 FELs in Europe and the Middle East. In particular, the project is funding (...)

Following a joint project undertaken by the ImXPAD Company and SOLEIL with a development time of more than three years, a ‘CirPAD’ detector was installed in May 2018 on the diffractometer of the (...)

Since 2011, 3 times a year, SOLEIL organizes visits a little special, designed for high school students, called SOLEIL Pursuit. As in a Trivial Pursuit, students are asked to answer different (...)

Integration of quantum information hardware into scalable and robust solid-state architectures will be key to allow performing quantum computation, one of the pillars of the recently launched EU (...)

2017 will be remembered as the first year with all 29 SOLEIL beamlines receiving photons. An increasing number of operational experimental stations is available, with the opening to users of the multi (...)

“Nanotube” and “butanone”, “small” and “malls”, “atom” and “moat”: these anagrams illustrate how meaning comes from the association of the letters of the alphabet. In the same way, the properties of (...)

The structures in the Sn – Sb phase diagram recently regained interest due to their occurrence in lead free solder. To predict the stability of a solder joint, all possibly appearing intermetallic (...)

To build the hard scaly shells that enclose their cells, coccolithophorid algae produce calcitic scales within an intracellular calcifying compartment and secrete them onto the cell surface. The (...)