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Publié le 04.02.2025

International Day of Light 2025 – Visit of the Synchrotron SOLEIL including tunnels of...

Warning: this event will be held in French Since 2018, UNESCO has declared that May 16 is the International Day of Light. For the fifth edition of this Day and a little ahead of schedule, SOLEIL opens its doors for an afternoon of visits and discoveries, Saturday, April 26^th 2025, from 2PM to 8PM

Publié le 08/01/2025

Fossils “dissected” by X-ray tomography at the PSICHE beamline reveal the early history...

A team led by palaeontologists at Imperial College London, in collaboration with scientists from IPANEMA Institute and PSICHÉ beamline, revealed the 3D anatomy of ~430-million-year-old marine fossils...

Publié le 23/10/2024

A Roman-Era curse tablet studied by X-ray tomography on the PSICHE beamline

Archaeological excavations carried out between 2022 and 2024 at the site of the former Porte Madeleine hospital in Orléans by the Archaeological Service of the City of Orléans uncovered a previously...

Publié le 12/09/2024

Drought means stress: Next Chapter

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...

Publié le 25/06/2024

Video: A talisman against Yazdanduk

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...

Publié le 29/05/2024

What's inside tree trunks? The WoodSun project provides a 3D answer

Imagine being able to explore what's hidden inside different types of wood, on a micrometer scale, all without destroying the trees or using a microscope! This is precisely the aim of Eric Badel and...

Publié le 24/04/2024

What is at the core of the Moon? Deciphering through the modeling of liquid Fe-C-S alloys...

Despite numerous geophysical and geochemical studies, the properties of the Moon's core, and in particular its density, remain poorly understood. The core density is closely linked to its composition...

Publié le 22/12/2023

Video - A talisman with plenty of character(s)

3.5 cm long, 1.5 cm in diameter... This small talisman, which may soon join the collections of the Musée des Écritures d'Ampus in the Haut-Var county of France, is very mysterious, and above all,...

Publié le 23/11/2023

Haüy-Lacroix Prize 2023 awarded to Rémy Pierru, by the Société Française de Minéralogie...

Rémy Pierru's thesis, entitled " Mantle melting at high pressure and high temperature: application to early Earth dynamics”, set out to reproduce experimentally the conditions under which the Earth’s...

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 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 05/08/2021

SOLEIL’s contribution to understanding Astrophysics & Astrochemistry

More than 10 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 series of...