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Among the fission products of uranium and plutonium, iodine 129 is a radioactive element with a half time of ~16 millions of years.

On 24th June, SOLEIL welcomed three students from the Douanier Rousseau High school in Laval. The three of them were the laureates of the 21st edition of the “Olympiades de Physique” which took place (...)

Ionization is a phenomenon scientists have been trying to study closer and closer. Unfortunately, till now they were faced with an important blurring of the image taken. An international team recently (...)

An Italian-British team has come to SOLEIL to use the DEIMOS beamline to investigate single molecule coolers deposited on a gold surface. They observed that the deposition process did not alter the (...)

As each year, SOLEIL is glad to bring you its Highlights 2013 digital version, a selection of some striking works carried out in 2013 both on the beamlines and on the machine itself. 4000 visiting (...)

Thanks to an experimental setup unique in the world, a team of researchers from the Laboratory of Physical Chemistry - Matter and Radiation (UMPC /CNRS), the Free University of Berlin in Germany (...)

Scientists working in the Molecular Biophysics Group at the University of Liverpool have discovered that a particular protein’s stability could contribute to the onset of neurodegenerative disease.

SOLEIL organizes with the Diagonale Paris-Saclay a Science Break entitled: “The crystal, precious stone for researchers”.

2D metallic states are highly promising for the microelectronics of tomorrow. Researchers managed to create such state with hexagonal symmetry at the bare surface of several insulating oxides.

On the AILES beamline at SOLEIL, the supersonic jet device associated with high-resolution infrared (IR) absorption spectroscopy (Jet-AILES) brought definite proofs of the planarity of hydrogen (...)

This unique event took place at the same time at SOLEIL and in cities like Bidard, Cannes, Mérignac Toulon and Toulouse. With the help and support of experts of space industry, students, entrepreneurs (...)

We often classify the electrons in an atom as being either ‘core’ electrons—those closest to the nucleus— or ‘valence’ electrons, those involved in chemical bonding. Indeed, if the atom is part of a (...)