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Lighting a candle, a quite ordinary action, starts a highly complex chemical reaction sequence: the combustion of the candle wax. The warm and festive yellow candlelight is radiated from soot (...)

December 2014. The UN proclaimed 2015 as the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies, making it a very special year for all of the synchrotron community. Light-related topics are (...)

In association with Imperial College London, scientists at the Institut Pasteur and CNRS have identified a vulnerable site on the surface of the dengue virus which is targeted by the only broadly (...)

On Monday November 3 rd, the first beam entered the optical hutch of the PUMA* beamline. Project developed between SOLEIL and the joint unit CNRS/ministry of Culture IPANEMA, the line aims at studying (...)

2.72 billion years ago, in very salty volcanic lakes, microorganisms were able to metabolize arsenic, according to the work of researchers from the Institut de physique du globe of Paris (CNRS/IPGP (...)

Although water (H 2O) and ammonia (NH 3) are very simple molecules, scientific studies on these compounds are still revealing surprising phenomena.

On October 14th, 2014, SOLEIL and the Indo-French Centre for the Promotion of Advanced Research (IFCPAR) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).

Finally approved late 2011 and launched in 2012, this project aims at generating X-ray pulses on a scale of a few dozens of femtoseconds (10 -15 seconds) by interaction between a femtosecond laser and (...)

On the occasion of the Researchers' Night 2014, SOLEIL will open its gates and welcome the public on the 26th of September, from 6PM to midnight, for the third edition of its SOLEIL de Minuit.

From 15 th to 19 th September, SOLEIL and the International Agency for Atomic Energy* (IAEA) were organizing a reflexion week on the management of accelerators.

On 19 th September 2014, a new scientific collaboration agreement was signed between SOLEIL and the international research center SESAME located in Allan (Jordan).

All the functions of the body are registered within the genes of each individual. There are even parts of genes called "introns" which, theoretically, code nothing at all. These portions of genes are (...)