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The self-assembly of proteins into ordered nanostructures such as the dynamic scaffolds that give different cell types or viruses their unique shapes, is a hallmark of many biological systems (...)

Electron scattering processes upon photoionization of liquid water and the subsequent transport of the quasi-free electrons through the liquid are of outmost importance for radiation damage in living (...)

#MissingType is an initiative to promote blood donation, organised for the World Blood Donor Day. SOLEIL participates to this initiative, by removing the letter "O" from our logo, on our websites and (...)

The pro-inflammatory cytokine 1 - thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP) plays a central role in common allergic diseases including asthma and atopic dermatitis. X-ray diffraction data collected at the (...)

Nuclear energy is the largest source of electricity production in France. In order to reprocess the spent nuclear fuel, fission products and minor actinides are concentrated and mixed with melted (...)

In a time resolved pump-probe experiment, the sample is excited with an ultra-short laser pulse (the pump), and induced changes in its atomic structure are studied by measuring, with a 2-D pixel (...)

A main challenge in chemotherapy is to determine the in cellulo parameters modulating the drug concentration required for therapeutic action. A method combining spectrofluorimetry and microscopy has (...)

Study of the spectroscopic properties of ions in the gaseous phase, a state of matter which by definition is highly diluted, requires the use of very specific experimental methods. Scientists at Orsay (...)

After four years of a fruitful collaboration between 2013 and 2016, SOLEIL and the "Institut Français du Pétrole et des Énergies Nouvelles" (IFPEN) renew their Framework Agreement for the 2017-2020 (...)

The measurement of elementary excitations in a material requires high resolution spectroscopic probes with momentum resolution. RIXS is a powerful technique to characterize these low energy (...)

2016 was a year of anniversaries. SOLEIL celebrated 10 years of its first beams: to begin with, electron beams, since the first electrons turned in the storage ring in May 2006. Then the DIFFABS (...)

In Materials Science, how to simultaneously analyze the morphology and the properties of nanoparticles? This case has motivated a collaboration between LUCIA beamline and Paris Institute of (...)