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On Thursday 9 and Friday 10 June 2022, SOLEIL welcomed a group of six high school students from the Albert Schweitzer high school in Mulhouse and their two physics teachers for a special visit.

At the end of June 2022, scientific equipment from one of the beamlines of the German synchrotron ANKA was moved and installed on DISCO at SOLEIL, thus completing the equipment dedicated to the (...)

The non-profit civil company Synchrotron SOLEIL was created in 2001. This new edition of our Highlights looks back on the twentieth anniversary of this creation, a year still marked by the pandemic to (...)

On 21 June 2022, the renewal of the framework agreement between the Fondation des Sciences du Patrimoine (FSP) and SOLEIL was signed by Isabelle Pallot-Frossard, President of the FSP, and Jean (...)

Made famous by the book (and films) 'Jurassic Park', the exceptional 3D preservation of amber* inclusions (insects, feathers, plants, etc.) has been the subject of many fantasies, notably the (...)

The immune system is constantly identifying and destroying pathogenic bacteria, viruses and other factors of infection. The complement system is one of the immune system’s components, comprising (...)

Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) takes its name from a first description of this disease in Crimea in 1944, among Soviet soldiers, and then in Congo in 1956. Transmitted to humans by a tick bite (...)

Many synchrotron experiments using X-ray fluorescence techniques are currently limited by the sensitivity of dedicated detectors. Indeed, in this type of experiments, key parameters for the detector (...)

Since 2018, UNESCO has declared that May 16 is the International Day of Light. For this fourth edition, SOLEIL opens its doors and the inside of the accelerator for an evening of visits and (...)

Metalloporphyrins are large molecules (fig. 1) whose cyclic structure includes a metal atom. Their role, essential in biological processes, depends mainly on the nature of the metal they contain: for (...)

For the penultimate episode of this series, we meet again Julie Gordon, doctoral student at the MONARIS laboratory and at the SOLEIL synchrotron, who is finalizing her research work on the alteration (...)

Lunéville château, aka the "Versailles of Lorraine", built in sandstone of the region, has had an eventful history marked by several fires. The most recent one, in 2003, was devastating, destroying (...)