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Publié le 07.02.2025

SOLEIL Highlights 2024

The new edition of our Highlights brings together 45 standout achievements selected from the approximately 700 articles published in 2024, resulting from the research undertaken both on SOLEIL's beamlines and within all the synchrotron teams that enable scientists to use these beamlines.For this 2024 edition, a first section dedicated to key figures that illustrate SOLEIL’s activity and recent...

Publié le 04/06/2025

SOLEIL's contribution to the Energy Transition

More than 15 years after the opening to our users, SOLEIL takes stock of the important results obtained thanks to the beamlines during this period. Thus, we invite you to discover a...

Publié le 22/05/2025

Paleontology: how did early life forms survive in an Arsenic-rich ocean?

How did the earliest life forms manage to endure the extreme conditions of their environment, such as chemically toxic surroundings? When did they begin to develop survival strategies? An...

Publié le 09/04/2025

SOLEIL's contribution to the biology community - Scientific Meeting, Montpellier,...

On the program: cross-presentations by scientists from Montpellier and from the synchrotron SOLEIL's beamlines, organized around two main themes: imaging and structural biology.

Publié le 11/12/2023

Unraveling the otolith through X-ray nanofluorescence at the NANOSCOPIUM beamline

Otoliths are mineral structures found in the inner ear of vertebrates. In teleost* fish, they continuously form throughout the animal's life, preserving a chronological record of the chemical and...

Publié le 11/09/2023

Imaging Alzheimer’s disease through three different beamlines at SOLEIL

Alzheimer’s disease — the most common dementia in the world — progresses in the brain with the development of large protein deposits called amyloid-beta plaques. These shell-like objects can entrap...

Publié le 24/08/2023

Discovery of the oldest macroscopic planktonic eukaryotes - Contribution of the...

The origin of eukaryotic* cells is a major challenge in evolutionary biology and has been sharply debated within the scientific community for decades. An international team coordinated by Abderrazak...

Publié le 05/07/2023

SOLEIL Highlights 2022

This document presents a selection of the remarkable results achieved by our users and teams. They allow us to remain optimistic for the future, despite a difficult context linked to the...

Publié le 22/02/2023

SOLEIL Health & Well-Being scientific section meets biologists from the plateau de...

On February 1st, 2023, the Health & Well-Being scientific section of SOLEIL organised a day of presentations and discussions for biologists from the plateau de Saclay area, at the Institute for...

Publié le 29/06/2022

SOLEIL Highlights 2021

The non-profit civil company Synchrotron SOLEIL was created in 2001. This new edition of our Highlights looks back on the twentieth anniversary of this creation, a year still marked by the pandemic...

Publié le 11/10/2021

From yellow to white and back again: the secret of crab spiders’ color changes

Animal coloration keeps fascinating us. While the process of pigmentation is well understood in most animals (including humans), the process of depigmentation is much less so. By studying color...

Publié le 27/07/2021

SOLEIL Highlights 2020

It is obviously impossible to summarize the year 2020 without mentioning the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced us all to change our way of interacting and working. However, the...