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On 12th and 13th January 2016, the course entitled ‘The SOLEIL synchrotron: science and innovation’ hosted teachers from the Paris and the Versailles Academies (education authority).

New formulations to establish, health claim to prove, safety to check ... cosmetics is among the flagships applied domain of optics-photonics. Opticsvalley proposes to put into perspective the (...)

Gas phase reactions are ubiquitous in the daily life, from combustion engines to planetary atmospheres, and have a profound impact on the environment and thus on humans. These reactions are driven by (...)

Thanks to the unique properties of the synchrotron radiation, a team of international scientists successfully describe the structure of a silver hydride nanocluster. Those results, published in (...)

A new step towards more accurate diagnosis for severe or acute renal failure just has been achieved. In a recent study published in Comptes Rendus Chemistry, scientists combined field effect scanning (...)

Scientists from the French National Institute of Agronomic Research (INRA) were able to follow in live the propagation of drought-induced embolism. Thanks to X-ray micro-tomography measurements (...)

A stable beam of 500 mA (uniform filling pattern) was delivered for the first time to the beam lines during the last week of the RUN5 of the year 2015: from Tuesday 15 to Monday 21 December…

Ultraviolet light has many uses, including water disinfection, pest control, and detection of counterfeit money. A new study by Andrés Santander-Syro at the University of Paris-Sud in France, Patrick (...)

Stefan Arold's group from KAUST in Saudi Arabia became the first group to solve the structure of an important protein using the new EIGER 9M detector at SOLEIL.

A research team led by a Dutch group showed, by using the DESIRS beamline of SOLEIL, that the size of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons influences the photon-induced processes they undergo in the (...)

A study led on the DIFFABS and LUCIA beamlines by scientists from the Research Platform on Ancient Materials IPANEMA (CNRS, MCC) and from the SOLEIL synchrotron facility reported a micrometric mapping (...)

A study led on the DIFFABS and LUCIA beamlines by scientists from the Research Platform on Ancient Materials IPANEMA (CNRS, MCC) and from the SOLEIL synchrotron facility reported a micrometric mapping (...)