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Published on 13/10/2023Open House – SOLEIL de Minuit 2023
Warning: this event will only be held in French On Friday, November 24, 2023, for the 11th edition of SOLEIL de Minuit, the synchrotron SOLEIL will exceptionally open its doors for night tours of its (...)Read more -
Published on 04/10/2023SOLEIL will be present at the Village des Sciences at the ENS de Paris Saclay October 7 -8 (...)
On Saturday October 7 and Sunday October 8, SOLEIL will once again be taking part in the annual Fête de la Science (Science Festival), offering the public the chance to discover SOLEIL and science (...)Read more -
Published on 04/10/2023Portrait of Sufal Swaraj - “Research is the only field in which a failed experiment (...)
In a series of portraits, SOLEIL meets the men and women behind the synchrotron. For this first episode, Sufal Swaraj, a researcher specializing in X-ray spectromicroscopy on the HERMES beamline (...)Read more -
Published on 27/09/2023Combining computer design and structural biology to develop future leukemia drugs
Acute T-cell lymphoblastic leukemia is notorious for its high relapse rate and resistance to standard treatments, considerably limiting patients' chances of long-term survival. A team of researchers (...)Read more -
Published on 19/09/2023ReMade@ARI call for projects: materials research for the circular economy
Working on materials for Circular Economy? Get access to European Research Infrastructures by submitting a proposal on ReMade@ARI portal.Read more -
Published on 12/09/2023Raising awareness of science among an ever-younger audience
Since 2015, SOLEIL has been partnering the Yvelines and Essonne Departmental Inspectorates of Primary Education with the "Lumières Primaires" project. This partnership involves designing and providing (...)Read more -
Published on 11/09/2023Imaging Alzheimer’s disease through three different beamlines at SOLEIL
Alzheimer’s disease — the most common dementia in the world — progresses in the brain with the development of large protein deposits called amyloid-beta plaques. These shell-like objects can entrap (...)Read more -
Published on 05/09/2023Nanocrystals and droplets: a miniature system to study the impact of proteins on biomass (...)
The production of agrifoods, biofuels or biobased materials can involve the transformation of biomass. At the molecular level, cellulose polymers, a major polysaccharide component of plant matter, are (...)Read more -
Published on 05/09/2023Study of an infrared camera using operando photoemission on ANTARES beamline
Nanocrystals are semiconductor nanoparticles. By choosing the right materials, it is possible to design nanocrystals photosensitive to infrared (IR) light, which can then be used as "active pixels" in (...)Read more -
Published on 24/08/2023Discovery of the oldest macroscopic planktonic eukaryotes - Contribution of the (...)
The origin of eukaryotic* cells is a major challenge in evolutionary biology and has been sharply debated within the scientific community for decades. An international team coordinated by Abderrazak (...)Read more -
Published on 25/07/2023Going carbon neutral - a new catalyst for CO 2 conversion caught in action
Researchers from South Korea’s Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST), and Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Matière et Rayonnement (...)Read more -
Published on 24/07/2023Zebrafish larvae to test renal toxicity of an antibiotic
Renal toxicity is an important aspect to be assessed when a new drug is tested. To study this toxicity, in vitro cell-based assays are often used. Unfortunately, translating the results of such cell (...)Read more