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Trees are suffering from global warming. Due to droughts that are too intense and too frequent, entire forest massifs are dying. Many coniferous trees could be under the spotlight. To identify the (...)

Prussian blue has been prized by artists since the 18th century. Today, scientists are taking a keen interest in this pigment by studying what happens when some of its iron atoms are replaced by (...)

Following his appointment in December 2023, Jean Susini took office as Director General of the SOLEIL Synchrotron on September 1, 2024, for a five-year term.

During the Workshop on Metrology for X-ray Optics, Mirror Design and Fabrication IWXM 2024, hosted by the Helmholtz Zentrum in Berlin, our colleague François Polack was awarded the 5 th Sostero Award.

On Wednesday August 21, SOLEIL met the management team of Saint-Gobain Research Compiègne.

Scientists from the Pasteur Institute have pinpointed the precise binding sites for the coronavirus HKU1 in respiratory cells, providing a detailed picture of the infection mechanism used by the virus (...)

During the development of a wheat grain, the grain’s cells synthesize storage proteins, which assemble into dense, spherical structures called protein bodies. These protein bodies act as stable (...)

Defender of the SOLEIL project since its beginnings and author of articles tracing its history [1], prof. Alain Michalowicz trained in X-ray absorption spectroscopy, collaborated with and helped by (...)

The new edition of our Highlights brings together 42 standout achievements selected from the approximately 700 articles published in 2023, resulting from the research undertaken both on SOLEIL's (...)

At SOLEIL, research on the little mysterious talisman (see the video "A Talisman with plenty of character(s)") continues. After being virtually unrolled by the X-ray tomography experiments conducted (...)

Can semiconductive materials store and deliver a large quantity of hydrogen on demand, like other systems studied for hydrogen storage? Could they be used in hydrogen-fuelled vehicles? To date, large (...)

Through a series of portraits, SOLEIL meets the people who make the synchrotron work. For this second episode, Danielle Njinwoua, a senior safety technician, has agreed to take part. She tells us all (...)